2017 Jacobs School of Engineering Department Award for Excellence

Congratulations to Michael Unanian on his Award of Excellence!

2017 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award: Professor Boubacar Kante

Congratulations to Professor Boubacar Kante for his 2017 ONR Young Investigator Award in the division of Aerospace Science Research.

2017 Bernard and Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Award

Congratulations to Christopher Ellis on his leadership award!

2017 Hellman Award: Professor Michael Yip

Established by Warren & Chris Hellman and their children in 1994, the purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their chosen fields of endeavor.

2017 ISCB GLBIO Best Student Paper Award

Graduate students Mai Uyen and  Erfan Sayyari received the Best Student Paper Award at the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, 2017. The paper is titled:

“Minimum Variance Rooting of Phylogenetic Trees and Implications for Species Tree Reconstruction.”

2017 Pinnacle Award for Outstanding Educator: Professor Pamela Cosman

San Diego, Calif., May 22, 2017 – Pamela Cosman, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, is being honored for her exemplary leadership among women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

2017 IEEE ICASSP Best Student Paper Award

Graduate student Heng Qiao received the Best Student Paper Award (first place) at the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2017. The paper is titled:

2017 IEEE NTC Early Career Award: Professor Duygu Kuzum

For her pioneering contributions towards the development of nanoelectronic synaptic devices for neuromorphic computing, congratulations to Prof. Kuzum. 

2017 Optical Society Award: Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize

University of California San Diego Professor of Advanced Optical Technologies in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Y. Shaya Fainman, has accepted the Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize from the Optical Society which recognizes significant research accomplishments in the field of optical engineering. OSA presents the award to Prof.

2017 Sloan Research Fellow: Professor Siavash Mirarab

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners of the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships. These early-career scholars represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada.