Awards

2017 Distinguished Alumni Award
Congratulations to Raheleh Dilmaghani on her award!

2017 Best PhD Thesis Award
Congratulations to Jianzhi Wu on his best thesis award!

2017 Best TA Awards
Congratulations to Nikhil Das (SP16), Saharnaz Baghdadchi (FA16) and Sonika Obheroi (WI17) on their awards!

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: