2003-2004 Electrical Engineering

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Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Ph.D., Chair
Abeer A.H. Alwan, Ph.D., Vice Chair
Ali H. Sayed, Ph.D., Vice Chair
Ming C. Wu, Ph.D., Vice Chair

Professors

Asad A. Abidi, Ph.D.

Abeer A.H. Alwan, Ph.D.

A.V. Balakrishnan, Ph.D.

Elliott R. Brown, Ph.D.

Frank M.C. Chang, Ph.D.

Harold R. Fetterman, Ph.D.

Michael P. Fitz, Ph.D.

Warren S. Grundfest, M.D., FACS

Tatsuo Itoh, Ph.D. (TRW Professor of Electrical Engineering)

Stephen E. Jacobsen, Ph.D., Associate Dean

Rajeev Jain, Ph.D.

Bahram Jalali, Ph.D.

Chandrashekhar J. Joshi, Ph.D.

William J. Kaiser, Ph.D.

Nhan Levan, Ph.D.

Jia-Ming Liu, Ph.D.

Warren B. Mori, Ph.D.

Dee-Son Pan, Ph.D.

C. Kumar N. Patel, Ph.D.

Gregory J. Pottie, Ph.D.

Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Ph.D.

Behzad Razavi, Ph.D.

Vwani P. Roychowdhury, Ph.D.

Izhak Rubin, Ph.D.

Henry Samueli, Ph.D.

Ali H. Sayed, Ph.D.

Mani B. Srivastava, Ph.D.

Oscar M. Stafsudd, Ph.D.

John D. Villasenor, Ph.D.

Chand R. Viswanathan, Ph.D.

Kang L. Wang, Ph.D.

Paul K.C. Wang, Ph.D.

Alan N. Willson, Jr., Ph.D.

Jason C.S. Woo, Ph.D.

Ming C. Wu, Ph.D.

Eli Yablonovitch, Ph.D.

Kung Yao, Ph.D.

Professors Emeriti

Frederick G. Allen, Ph.D.

Francis F. Chen, Ph.D. (Research Professor)

Robert S. Elliott, Ph.D.

Richard E. Mortensen, Ph.D.

H.J. Orchard, M.Sc.

Frederick W. Schott, Ph.D.

Gabor C. Temes, Ph.D.

Donald M. Wiberg, Ph.D.

Jack Willis, B.Sc.

Associate Professors

Babak Daneshrad, Ph.D.

Jack W. Judy, Ph.D.

William H. Mangione-Smith, Ph.D.

Fernando G. Paganini, Ph.D.

Lieven Vandenberghe, Ph.D.

Ingrid M. Verbauwhede, Ph.D.

Richard D. Wesel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professors

Lei He, Ph.D.

Yuanxun Ethan Wang, Ph.D.

C.-K. Ken Yang, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professors

Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, Ph.D.

Giorgio Franceschetti, Ph.D.

Brian H. Kolner, Ph.D.

Joel Schulman, Ph.D.

Pyotr Y. Ufimtsev, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Bijan Houshmand, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Charles Chien, Ph.D.

Scope And Objectives

The Electrical Engineering Department emphasizes teaching and research in the fields of communications and telecommunications, control systems, electromagnetics, embedded computing systems, engineering optimization/operations research, integrated circuits and systems, microelectromechanical systems/nanotechnology (MEMS/nano), photonics and optoelectronics, plasma electronics, signal processing, and solid-state electronics. In each of these fields, the department has state-of-the-art research programs exploring exciting new concepts and developments. Undergraduate students receive a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. Graduate research and training programs leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are also offered.

Laboratories are available for research in the following areas: analog and digital electronics, VLSI circuits, integrated semiconductor devices, microwave and millimeter wave electronics, solid-state electronics, fiber optics, lasers and quantum electronics, and plasma electronics. The department is associated with the Center for High-Frequency Electronics and the Plasma Science and Technology Institute, two research centers at UCLA.

Electrical Engineering B.S.

The ABET-accredited electrical engineering curriculum gives an excellent background for either graduate study or employment. The two main objectives are to provide (1) a deep and fundamental education in electrical engineering as well as in basic sciences and mathematics and (2) specialized education in one branch of electrical engineering so that students develop expertise in it.

The Major

Course requirements are as follows (190 minimum units required):

  1. 1. One engineering breadth course from Materials Science and Engineering 14, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 102, 103, M105A (or Chemical Engineering M105A)
  2. 2. Electrical Engineering 10, M16 (or Computer Science M51A), 101, 102, 103, 110, 110L, 113, 115A, 115AL, 121B, 131A, 132A, 141, 161, 172, Mathematics 113 or 132, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 192A
  3. 3. Any five major field elective courses selected from those offered by the Electrical Engineering Department, including at minimum 4 units of laboratories and one design course; with approval of the adviser, two may be selected from courses related to electrical engineering in other departments
  4. 4. Chemistry and Biochemistry 20A, 20B, 20L; Computer Science 31, 32; Electrical Engineering 1, 2; Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A, 32B, 33A, 33B; Physics 1A, 1B, 4AL, 4BL
  5. 5. HSSEAS general education (GE) requirements; see Curricular Requirements on page 22 for details. Electrical Engineering majors are also required to satisfy the ethics and professionalism requirement by completing one course from Engineering 95 or 193 or 195 or 198, which may be applied toward either the humanities or social sciences section of the GE requirements

Biomedical Engineering Option

Course requirements are as follows (201 minimum units required):

  1. 1. Electrical Engineering 10, M16 (or Computer Science M51A), 101, 102, 103, 110, 110L, 113, 114D, 115A, 115AL, 121B, 131A, 132A, 141, 161, Mathematics 113 or 132, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 103, M105A, 192A
  2. 2. Life Sciences 1 (satisfies HSSEAS GE life sciences requirement), 2, 3
  3. 3. Three technical electives, including one course selected from Electrical Engineering 115B, 115C, 142, 172; the remaining two courses may be selected from the above list and/or from Biomedical Engineering C101, CM102, CM103, Computer Science M196B, CM196L, Electrical Engineering 176
  4. 4. Chemistry and Biochemistry 20A, 20B, 20L, 30A, 30AL; Computer Science 31; Electrical Engineering 1, 2; Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A, 32B, 33A, 33B; Physics 1A, 1B, 4AL, 4BL
  5. 5. HSSEAS general education (GE) requirements; see Curricular Requirements on page 22 for details. Electrical Engineering majors are also required to satisfy the ethics and professionalism requirement by completing one course from Engineering 95 or 193 or 195 or 198, which may be applied toward either the humanities or social sciences section of the GE requirements

Computer Engineering Option

Course requirements are as follows (190 minimum units required):

  1. 1. One engineering breadth course from Materials Science and Engineering 14, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 102, 103, M105A (or Chemical Engineering M105A)
  2. 2. Computer Science 111, 180, Electrical Engineering 10, M16 (or Computer Science M51A), 101, 102, 103, 110, 110L, 113, 115A, 115AL,115C, M116C (or Computer Science M151B), M116D (or Computer Science M152B), M116L (or Computer Science M152A), 121B, 131A, Mathematics 113 or 132, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 192A
  3. 3. Four technical elective courses, one of which must be Electrical Engineering 132A or either Computer Science 118 or Electrical Engineering 132B. The remaining three courses must be upper division electrical engineering or computer science courses, and at least three of the four must be from the Electrical Engineering Department
  4. 4. Chemistry and Biochemistry 20A; Computer Science 31, 32, 33; Electrical Engineering 1, 2; Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A, 32B, 33A, 33B; Physics 1A, 1B, 4AL, 4BL
  5. 5. HSSEAS general education (GE) requirements; see Curricular Requirements on page 22 for details. Electrical engineering majors are also required to satisfy the ethics and professionalism requirement by completing one course from Engineering 95 or 193 or 195 or 198, which may be applied toward either the humanities or social sciences section of the GE requirements

Departures from the stated requirements are possible, and students who wish to follow programs that cannot be accommodated within these requirements may prepare, in consultation with their advisers, proposals for consideration by the department. Variations are approved if the overall program has a well-defined educational objective and is substantially equivalent to the existing curriculum in breadth and depth.

Graduate Study

For information on graduate admission see Graduate Programs, page 24.

The following introductory information is based on the 2003-04 edition of Program Requirements for UCLA Graduate Degrees . Complete annual editions of Program Requirements are available from the "Publications" link at http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu. Students are subject to the degree requirements as published in Program Requirements for the year in which they matriculate.

The Department of Electrical Engineering offers Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in Electrical Engineering.

Electrical Engineering M.S.

Course Requirements

Students may select either the thesis plan or comprehensive examination plan. At least nine courses are required, of which at least five must be graduate courses. In the thesis plan, seven of the nine must be formal courses, including at least four from the 200 series. The remaining two may be 598 courses involving work on the thesis. In the comprehensive examination plan, no units of 500-series courses may be applied toward the minimum course requirement. A majority of the courses must be in or related to electrical engineering and belong to one of the specialized major fields described below.

Undergraduate Courses. Lower and upper division undergraduate courses required for any of the B.S. options in Electrical Engineering cannot be applied toward graduate degrees.

In addition, the following upper division courses are not applicable toward graduate degrees: Chemical Engineering M105A, 199; Civil and Environmental Engineering 106A, 108, 199; Computer Science M152A, M152B, M171L, 199; Electrical Engineering 100, 101, 102, 103, 110L, M116D, M116L, M171L, 199; Materials Science and Engineering 110, 120, 130, 131, 131L, 132, 150, 160, 161L, 190, 191L, 199; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 102, 103, M105A, 105D, 199.

Communications and Telecommunications

Requisite. B.S. degree in Engineering or equivalent.

Minimum Course Requirements. Nine 4-unit courses, of which at least six must be graduate courses.

Thesis Plan . Electrical Engineering 230A, 232A; two additional 200-level electrical engineering courses in the communications and telecommunications engineering area; three or more courses, of which at least two must be 200-level electrical engineering courses, subject to the approval of the student's adviser. Eight units (two courses) of Electrical Engineering 598 must be taken to cover the research work and preparation of the thesis. Both 598 courses count toward the minimum of nine courses.

Comprehensive Examination Plan. Electrical Engineering 230A, 232A; two additional 200-level electrical engineering courses in the communications and telecommunications engineering area; five or more courses, of which at least two must be 200-level electrical engineering courses, subject to the approval of the student's adviser.

Control Systems

Requisite. B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

Thesis Plan. Seven graduate-level courses, of which at least five must be selected from the list of courses covering the control systems fundamentals, and a thesis. The remaining courses are subject to the approval of the student's adviser. In addition, 8 units (two courses) of Electrical Engineering 598 must be taken to cover the research work and preparation of the thesis.

Comprehensive Examination Plan. Nine courses, of which seven must be graduate courses and at least five must be selected from the list of courses covering the control systems fundamentals. The remaining courses are subject to the approval of the student's adviser.

Basic graduate courses in control systems fundamentals: Electrical Engineering M240A, 240B, M240C, 241A, 241B, 241C, M242A.

Electromagnetics

Requisite. B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

Thesis Plan. Eight units (two courses) of Electrical Engineering 598 must be taken to cover the research work and preparation of the thesis. Both 598 courses count toward the minimum of nine courses, but only one can count toward the requirement of five graduate-level courses. A minimum of four graduate courses is to be selected from the Group II list.

The remaining courses may, subject to the approval of the student's adviser, be selected as free electives from the 100 or 200 series in order to meet the overall requirements given above.

Comprehensive Examination Plan. At least seven courses must be selected from those listed below in Groups I and II, and at least four of the seven courses must be selected from Group II.

The remaining two courses may, subject to the approval of the student's adviser, be selected as free electives from the 100 or 200 series in order to meet the overall requirements given above.

Group I: Electrical Engineering 162A, 163A, 163B, 163C, M185.

Group II: Electrical Engineering 221C, 260A, 260B, 261, 262, 270.

Embedded Computing Systems

Requisite: B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.

Thesis Plan. Nine courses, of which at least six must be graduate courses, and a thesis. The three courses in Group I must be completed, and at least three courses must be selected from Group II. The remaining three courses may be selected as free electives. Eight units (two courses) of Electrical Engineering 598 may be applied as free electives.

Comprehensive Examination Plan. Nine courses, of which at least six must be graduate courses. The three courses in Group I must be completed, and at least three courses must be selected from Group II. The remaining three courses may be selected as free electives.

Group I: Electrical Engineering 201A, 202A, 204A.

Group II: Electrical Engineering 206A, 213A, M216A, Computer Science 251A, 252A.

Free Electives. All 100- and 200-level courses are acceptable as free electives subject to the approval of the faculty adviser and major field chair. However, students are strongly encouraged to take these courses from allied major fields, such as communications and telecommunications, integrated circuits and systems, and signal processing. Undergraduate core courses may not be applied as free electives.

Engineering Optimization/ Operations Research

Requisite. B.S. degree in Engineering or Mathematical Sciences or equivalent.

Minimum Course Requirements. At least nine courses, of which at least five must be graduate courses. For the requisite structure, consult the department.

In consultation with an adviser, students may elect the thesis plan or the comprehensive examination plan. M.S. students in either plan must take at least three courses from Group I and at least two courses from Group II.

Group I: Optimization (Mathematical Programming): Electrical Engineering 232E, 236A, 236B, 236C.

Group II: Applied Stochastic Processes and Dynamic Programming: Electrical Engineering 232A, 232B, 232C, M237.

Thesis Plan. Under the thesis plan, students must take 8 units (two courses) of Electrical Engineering 598 to cover the research work and preparation of the thesis. Only 4 of these units may be used to satisfy the graduate course requirement; however, the 8 units can be used to satisfy the total course requirement.

Comprehensive Examination Plan. Under the comprehensive examination plan, students may not apply any 500-level courses toward the course requirements.

Integrated Circuits and Systems

Requisite. B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with strong emphasis on circuit design. Coursework must have covered the material contained in Electrical Engineering 113, 115B, and 115C.

Minimum Course Requirements. Nine courses, of which at least six must be graduate courses. A thesis must be completed under the direction of a faculty adviser.

Thesis Plan. The three courses in Group I must be completed. In addition, three courses must be selected from Groups II and III with, at most, one from Group III. The remaining three courses may be selected as free electives.

Group I: Electrical Engineering 215A, 215B, M216A.

Group II: Electrical Engineering 212A, 212B, 213A, 215C, 215D, 221A, 221B.

Group III: Computer Science 251A, 252A.

Free Electives. With some exceptions, all 100- and 200-level courses are acceptable as free electives subject to the approval of the faculty adviser. However, it is strongly recommended that courses from the fields of communications and telecommunications, signal processing, and solid-state electronics be used as the free electives. Undergraduate core courses in the Electrical Engineering Department and HSSEAS may not be applied as free electives. Electrical Engineering 598 may be applied as one of the three electives.

The normal courseload approved by a faculty adviser is such that it requires a full-time presence on campus and, as a rule, precludes part-time off-campus employment. The M.S. program should normally take four quarters and a summer for completion.

Microelectromechanical Systems/Nanotechnology (MEMS/Nano)

Requisite. B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent.

Thesis Plan. Nine courses, of which at least six must be graduate courses, and a thesis. The four courses in Group I must be completed, and at least one course must be selected from Group II. The remaining courses may be selected as free electives. Eight units (two courses) of Electrical Engineering 598 may be applied as free electives, but only 4 units can count toward the requirement of six graduate-level courses.

Comprehensive Examination Plan. Nine courses, of which at least six must be graduate courses. The four courses in Group I must be completed, and at least one course must be selected from Group II. The remaining courses may be selected as free electives.

Group I: Electrical Engineering M150, M150L, M250A, M250B.

Group II: Electrical Engineering 250C, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 281, 284, 287.

Free Electives. All 100- and 200-level courses are acceptable as free electives subject to the approval of the faculty adviser and the chair of the embedded computing systems major field. Since the field of MEMS/nanotechnology is broadly applicable, students may take these courses from any of the other major fields in electrical engineering, as well as those fields of particular relevance to MEMS/nanotechnology that are outside the Electrical Engineering Department (e.g., mechanical engineering, materials science, bioengineering, chemical engineering). Undergraduate core courses may not be applied as free electives. An undergraduate course that is a requisite for a graduate course may not be taken after the graduate course.

Photonics and Optoelectronics

Requisite. B.S. degree in Engineering or Physics or equivalent.

Thesis Plan. Electrical Engineering 270, 271, either 272 or 273 or 274, 598 (twice), and four additional courses, of which at least one must be a 200-level course.

Comprehensive Examination Plan. Electrical Engineering 270, 271, either 272 or 273 or 274, and six additional courses, of which at least two must be 200-level courses.

Additional Courses. With a few exceptions, all 100- and 200-level courses in the UCLA General Catalog are acceptable subject to the approval of the adviser. The exceptions are the following courses (which are not acceptable for any M.S. program in Electrical Engineering): (1) all school undergraduate core courses and (2) all department undergraduate core courses. Consult the departmental adviser for lists of the courses.

Plasma Electronics

Requisite. B.S. degree in Engineering or Physics or equivalent.

Thesis Plan. Electrical Engineering M185, 285A, 285B, 598 (twice), and four additional courses from the list below. Of these, at least two must be in the 200 series and at least one must be in electrical engineering. If Electrical Engineering M185 was taken as an undergraduate, it may be replaced by any engineering course on the list below.

Comprehensive Examination Plan. Electrical Engineering M185, 285A, 285B, and six additional courses from the list below. Of these, at least three must be in the 200 series and at least one must be in electrical engineering. Of the remainder, at least one other course must be in engineering. If Electrical Engineering M185 was taken as an undergraduate, it may be replaced by any course on the list below. Other courses may be substituted with the consent of the department adviser.

Additional Courses. Electrical Engineering 115A, 115AL, 115B, 115BL, 115C, 122AL, 123A, 123B, 124, 162A, 163A, 163B, 164AL, 172, M208A, M208B, 270, 271, 272, M287, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 150A, 150B, 250A, 252A, 252B, Physics 160, 180E, 222A, 222B, 222C, 231A, 231B.

Signal Processing

Requisite . B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering.

Minimum Course Requirements. Nine 4-unit courses, of which at least seven must be graduate courses.

Thesis Plan. A thesis must also be completed under the direction of a faculty adviser. Eight units (two courses) of Electrical Engineering 598 can be taken to cover the research work and preparation of the thesis. Both 598 courses count toward the minimum of nine courses, but only one counts toward the seven graduate-level courses. The four courses in Group I must be completed, and at least two courses must be selected from Group II. The two courses from Group II may be substituted by other 200-level electrical engineering courses with the approval of the student's faculty adviser. The remaining courses may be selected as free electives and/or Electrical Engineering 598.

Comprehensive Examination Plan. The four courses in Group I must be completed, and at least two courses must be selected from Group II. The two courses from Group II may be substituted by other 200-level electrical engineering courses with the approval of the student's faculty adviser. The remaining courses may be selected as free electives.

Group I: Electrical Engineering 210A, 211A, 212A, M214A.

Group II: Electrical Engineering 210B, 211B, 212B, 213A, 214B, M216A.

Free Electives. All 100- and 200-level courses in the UCLA General Catalog are acceptable as free electives with the exception of undergraduate core courses in HSSEAS and undergraduate Electrical Engineering Department core courses. The choice of free electives must be approved by the faculty adviser.

Solid-State Electronics

Requisite. B.S. degree in Engineering or equivalent.

Minimum Course Requirements. Nine courses, of which at least five must be graduate courses. The program must include all core courses listed below with the remaining courses selected from the options list. Additional options may be applied with the consent of the adviser.

Eight units (two courses) of Electrical Engineering 598 must be taken to cover the research work and preparation of the thesis. Both 598 courses count toward the minimum of nine courses, but only one counts toward the five required graduate-level courses.

Solid-State Physical Electronics Requirements. Core: Electrical Engineering 123B, 124, 223. Options: At least two courses from Electrical Engineering 221A, 221B, 221C, 224, and 225, with the remaining courses from graduate courses and those upper division courses that are not required for the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, with approval of the graduate adviser.

Semiconductor Device Physics and Design Requirements. Core: Electrical Engineering 123B, 124, 221A, 221B. Options: At least two courses from Electrical Engineering 221C, 222, 223, 224, 225, and 298 (in solid-state electronics), with the remaining courses from graduate courses and those upper division courses that are not required for the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, with approval of the graduate adviser.

Comprehensive Examination Plan

Communications and Telecommunications

A written comprehensive examination is administered by the communications and telecommunications field committee. In case of failure, students may be reexamined once with the consent of the graduate adviser. The examination may be given as part of the written Ph.D. preliminary examination in the communications and telecommunications field.

Control Systems

A written comprehensive examination, administered by a three-person committee chaired by a member of the controls field committee, must be taken during the last quarter of study toward the M.S. degree. In case of failure, students may be reexamined once with the consent of the graduate adviser.

Electromagnetics

A common six- to eight-hour comprehensive examination is offered once a year to students in this M.S. program. The examination must be taken during the academic year at the end of which students are expected to graduate. In case of failure, students may be reexamined once with the consent of the graduate adviser.

Embedded Computing Systems

Students are required to pass a written examination scheduled by the embedded computing systems field chair to be concurrent with the Ph.D. preliminary examination.

Engineering Optimization/Operations Research

Students take a common written examination during their last quarter of coursework. The examination is normally offered at the end of Fall and Spring Quarters. In case of failure, students may be reexamined once with the consent of the graduate adviser.

Integrated Circuits and Systems

The comprehensive examination plan is not offered.

Microelectromechanical Systems/Nanotechnology

Students are required to pass a written examination scheduled by the microelectromechanical systems/nanotechnology (MEMS/nano) field chair to be concurrent with the Ph.D. preliminary examination.

Photonics and Optoelectronics

Consult the department. In case of failure of the comprehensive examination, students may be reexamined once with the consent of the graduate adviser.

Plasma Electronics

Consult the department. The majority of M.S. candidates proceed to the Ph.D. The Ph.D. qualifying examination may be taken to satisfy the M.S. comprehensive examination requirement.

Signal Processing

A written comprehensive examination is administered by the signal processing field committee. In case of failure, students may be reexamined once with the consent of the graduate adviser. The examination may be given as part of the written Ph.D. preliminary examination in the signal processing field.

Solid-State Electronics

The comprehensive examination plan is not offered.

Thesis Plan

Consult the department for information on the thesis plan for the areas of communications and telecommunications, control systems, electromagnetics, engineering optimization/operations research, photonics and optoelectronics, and plasma electronics.

Embedded Computing Systems

Students are expected to find a faculty adviser to direct a research project that culminates in an M.S. thesis. The thesis research must be conducted concurrently with the coursework.

Integrated Circuits and Systems

Students are expected to find a faculty adviser to direct a research project that culminates in an M.S. thesis. The thesis research must be conducted in the Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory concurrently with the coursework.

Microelectromechanical Systems/Nanotechnology

Students are expected to find a faculty adviser to direct a research project that culminates in an M.S. thesis. The thesis research must be conducted concurrently with the coursework.

Signal Processing

A thesis must be completed under the direction of a faculty adviser.

Solid-State Electronics

A thesis is required. Consult the department for details.

Electrical Engineering Ph.D.

Major Fields or Subdisciplines

Communications and telecommunications; control systems; electromagnetics; embedded computing systems; engineering optimization/operations research; integrated circuits and systems; microelectromechanical systems/nanotechnology (MEMS/nano); photonics and optoelectronics; plasma electronics; signal processing; solid-state electronics.

Course Requirements

There is no formal course requirement for the Ph.D. degree, and students may theoretically substitute coursework by examinations. Normally, however, students take courses to acquire the knowledge needed for the required written and oral preliminary examinations. The basic program of study for the Ph.D. degree is built around one major field and two minor fields. A detailed syllabus describing each major field can be obtained in the department office. The major field has a scope corresponding to a body of knowledge contained in six courses, at least four of which are graduate courses, plus the current literature in the area of specialization. Each major field named above is described in a Ph.D. major field syllabus. Each minor field normally embraces a body of knowledge equivalent to three courses, at least two of which are graduate courses. Grades of B- or better, with a grade-point average of at least 3.33 in all courses included in the minor field, are required. If students fail to satisfy the minor field requirements through coursework, a minor field examination may be taken (once only). The minor fields are usually selected to support the major field and are usually subsets of other major fields.

Written and Oral Qualifying Examinations

The written qualifying examination is known as the Ph.D. preliminary examination in HSSEAS. After mastering the body of knowledge defined in the major field, students take a preliminary examination in the major field. The examination typically consists of both a written part and an oral part, and students pass the entire examination and not in parts. The oral part does not exceed two hours and in some major fields is not required at all. Students who fail the examination may repeat it once only, subject to the approval of the major field committee. The major field examination, together with the three courses in each of the two minor fields, should be completed within six quarters after admission to the Ph.D. program.

After passing the written qualifying examination described above, students take the University Oral Qualifying Examination, which should occur within three quarters after completing the written examination. The nature and content of the examination are at the discretion of the doctoral committee, but ordinarily include a broad inquiry into the student's preparation for research. The doctoral committee also reviews the prospectus of the dissertation at the oral qualifying examination.

Note: Doctoral Committees. A doctoral committee consists of a minimum of four members. Three members, including the chair, are "inside" members and must hold appointments at UCLA in the student's major department in HSSEAS. The "outside" member must be a UCLA faculty member outside the student's major department.

Fields of Study

Communications and Telecommunications

Communications and telecommunications research is concerned with communications, telecommunications, networking, and information processing principles and their engineering applications. Communications research includes satellite, spread spectrum, and digital communications systems. Fast estimation, detection, and optimization algorithms and processing techniques for communications, radar, and VLSI design are studied. Research is conducted in stochastic modeling of telecommunications engineering systems, switching, architectures, queueing systems, computer communications networks, local-area/metropolitan-area/long-haul communications networks, optical communications networks, packet-radio and cellular radio networks, and personal communications systems. Research in networking also includes studies of processor communications and synchronization for parallel and distributed processing in computer and sensor network systems. Several aspects of communications networks and processing systems are thoroughly investigated, including system architectures, protocols, performance modeling and analysis, simulation studies, and analytical optimization. Investigations in information theory involve basic concepts and practices of channel and source coding. Significant multidisciplinary programs including sensing and radio communication networks exist.

Control Systems

Faculty and students in the control systems field conduct research in control, estimation, filtering, and identification of dynamic systems, including deterministic and stochastic, linear- and nonlinear-, and finite- and infinite-dimensional systems. Topics of particular interest include adaptive, distributed, nonlinear, optimal, and robust control, with applications to autonomous systems, smart structures, flight systems, microbiotics, microelectromechanical systems, and distributed networks.

Electromagnetics

Research in electromagnetics is conducted on novel integrated three-dimensional microwave and millimeter wave circuits, components, and systems, printed antennas, wireless and personal communications, fiber optics, integrated optics and photonic bandgap wave-guiding structures, left-handed transmission structures, antenna theory and design, satellite antennas, smart antennas and materials, antennas and biological tissue interactions, modern antenna near field measurement techniques, microwave holography and antenna diagnostics, radar cross section, multiple scattering, genetic algorithms, ultra wideband radar, novel time domain methods in microelectromechanics, advanced EM numerical techniques, and parallel computational techniques.

Embedded Computing Systems

Faculty in the embedded computing systems field conduct research in areas including processor architectures and VLSI design methodologies for real-time embedded systems in application domains such as cryptography, digital signal processing, algebra, wireless and high-speed communications, mobile and wireless multimedia systems, distributed wireless sensor networks, power-aware computing and communications, quality of service, quantum and nanoelectronic computation, quantum information processing, fault-tolerant computation, combinatorics and information theory, advanced statistical processing, adaptive algorithms, dynamic circuits to implement configurable computing systems, low-power processor and system design, multimedia and communications processing, and all techniques for leveraging instruction-level parallelism.

Engineering Optimization/Operations Research

Engineering optimization/operations research is conducted in optimization theory, including linear and nonlinear programming, convex optimization and engineering applications, numerical methods, nonconvex programming, and associated network flow and graph problems. Another area of study is that of stochastic processes, including renewal theory, Markov chains, stochastic dynamic programming, and queueing theory. Applications are made to a variety of engineering design problems, including communications and telecommunications.

Integrated Circuits and Systems

Students and faculty in integrated circuits and systems (IC&S) are engaged in research on communications and RF integrated circuit design; analog and digital signal processing microsystems; integrated microsensors, microelectromechanical systems, and associated low-power microelectronics; reconfigurable computing systems; and multimedia and communications processors. Current projects include wireless transceiver integrated circuits, including RF and baseband circuits; high-speed data communications integrated circuits; A/D and D/A converters; networking electronics; distributed sensors with wireless networking; and digital processor design. M.S. and Ph.D. degrees require a thesis based on an ongoing IC&S project and full-time presence on campus. More information is at http://www.icsl.ucla.edu.

Microelectromechanical Systems/Nanotechnology

The microelectromechanical systems/nanotechnology (MEMS/nano) program is one of the fastest growing research programs in the school, with faculty and student participation from the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. Inside the Electrical Engineering Department, the program has attracted students from solid-state electronics, integrated circuits and systems, photonics and optoelectronics, electromagnetics, computer engineering, and control systems. MEMS/nano research at UCLA emphasizes the design, fabrication, and physics of sensors, actuators, and systems on a nanometer to millimeter scale. Research project areas include free-space micro optics (MOEMS), biology and medicine (BioMEMS), neuroengineering, advanced circuit integration with MEMS, reconfigurable electromagnetic systems (RF MEMS, millimeter wave devices, antennas), fluid dynamics, and distributed sensor and actuator networks.

Photonics and Optoelectronics

The photonics and optoelectronics group conducts research on photonic and optoelectronic devices, circuits, and systems. Target applications include but are not limited to telecommunication, data communication, phased array antenna systems, radar, CATV and HFC networks, and biomedicine. Among technologies being developed are nonlinear optical devices, ultrafast photodetectors and modulators, infrared detectors, mode-locked lasers, photonic bandgap devices, DWDM, CDMA, true time delay beam steering, temporal manipulation techniques and data conversion, digital and analog transceivers, optical MEMS, and biomedical sensors. Laboratory facilities host the latest technology in lasers, optical measurements, Gbit/s bit error rate testing, and millimeter wave optoelectronic characterization. UCLA photonics hosts several national research centers including the DARPA Consortium for Optical A/D System Technology (COAST), the Navy MURI Center on RF Photonics, and the Army MURI Center on Photonic Bandgap Research. The group is a member of the Optoelectronic Industry Development Association (OIDA).

Plasma Electronics

Plasma electronics research is concerned with a basic understanding of both inertially confined and magnetically confined fusion plasmas, as well as with the applications of plasma physics in areas such as laser plasma accelerators, ion beam sources, plasma-materials processing, and free-electron lasers. Extensive laboratory facilities are available, including high-power lasers and microwave and millimeter wave sources and detectors, a state-of-the-art laser and beam physics laboratory for advanced accelerator studies, and large quiescent low-density plasmas for nonlinear wave studies. In addition, experiments are conducted at a variety of national laboratories.

Signal Processing

Signal processing encompasses the techniques, hardware, algorithms, and systems used to process one-dimensional and multidimensional sequences of data. Research being conducted in the signal processing group reflects the broad interdisciplinary nature of the field today. Areas of current interest include analysis, synthesis, and coding of speech signals, video signal processing, digital filter analysis and design, multirate signal processing, image compression, adaptive filtering, communications signal processing, equalization techniques, synthetic aperture radar remote sensing, signal processing for hearing aids, auditory system modeling, automatic speech recognition, wireless communication, digital signal processor architectures, and the characterization and analysis of three-dimensional time-varying medical image data. The M.S. program includes a thesis project or a comprehensive examination.

Solid-State Electronics

Solid-state electronics research involves studies of new and advanced devices with picosecond switching times and high-frequency capabilities up to submillimeter wave ranges. Topics being investigated are hot electron transistors, quantum devices, heterojunction bipolar transistors, HEMTs, and MESFETs, as well as more conventional scaled-down MOSFETs, SOI devices, bipolar devices, and photovoltaic devices. The studies of basic materials, submicron structures, and device principles range from Si, Si-Ge, Si-Silicides, and III-V molecular beam epitaxy to the modeling of electron transport in high fields and short temporal and spatial scales. Research in progress also includes fabrication, testing, and reliability of new types of VLSI devices and circuits.

Facilities and Programs

Computing Resources

Students and faculty have access to a modern networked computing environment that interconnects UNIX workstations as well as Windows and Linux PCs. These machines are provided by the Electrical Engineering Department; most of them operate in a client-server mode, but stand-alone configurations are supported as well. Furthermore, this network connects to mainframes and supercomputers provided by the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Office of Academic Computing, as well as off-campus supercomputers according to need.

The rapidly growing department-wide network comprises about 500 computers. These include about 200 workstations from Sun, HP, and SGI, and about 300 PCs, all connected to a 100 Mbit/s network with multiple parallel T3 lines running to individual research laboratories and computer rooms. The server functions are performed by several high-speed, high-capacity RAID servers from Network Appliance and IBM which serve user directories and software applications in a unified transparent fashion. All this computing power is distributed in research laboratories, computer classrooms, and open-access computer rooms.

Center for High-Frequency Electronics

The Center for High-Frequency Electronics has been established with support from several governmental agencies and contributions from local industries. A goal of the center is to combine, in a synergistic manner, five new areas of research. These include (1) solid-state millimeter wave devices, (2) millimeter systems for imaging and communications, (3) millimeter wave high-power sources (gyrotrons, etc.), (4) GaAs gigabit logic systems, and (5) VLSI and LSI based on new materials and structures. The center supports work in these areas by providing the necessary advanced equipment and facilities and allows the University to play a major role in initiating and generating investigations into new electronic devices. Students, both graduate and undergraduate, receive training and instruction in a unique facility.

The second major goal of the center is to bring together the manpower and skills necessary to synthesize new areas of activity by stimulating interactions between different interdependent fields. The Electrical Engineering Department, other departments within UCLA, and local universities (such as Cal Tech and USC) have begun to combine and correlate certain research programs as a result of the formation of the center. Students and faculty are encouraged to become active in using the center's facilities, attending its seminars, and participating in innovative new research programs. For more information, see http://chfe.ee.ucla.edu.

Circuits Laboratories

The Circuits Laboratories are equipped for measurements on high-speed analog and digital circuits and are used for the experimental study of communication, signal processing, and instrumentation systems.

A hybrid integrated circuit facility is available for rapid mounting, testing, and revision of miniature circuits. These include both discrete components and integrated circuit chips. The laboratory is available to advanced undergraduate and graduate students through faculty sponsorship on thesis topics, research grants, or special studies.

Electromagnetics Laboratories

The Electromagnetics Laboratories involve the disciplines of microwaves, millimeter waves, wireless electronics, and electromechanics. Students enrolled in microwave laboratory courses, such as Electrical Engineering 164AL and 164BL, special projects classes such as Electrical Engineering 199, and/or research projects, have the opportunity to obtain experimental and design experience in the following technology areas: (1) integrated microwave circuits and antennas, (2) integrated millimeter wave circuits and antennas, (3) numerical visualization of electromagnetic waves, (4) electromagnetic scattering and radar cross-section measurements, and (5) antenna near field and diagnostics measurements.

Nanoelectronics Research Facility

The state-of-the-art Nanoelectronics Research Facility for graduate research and teaching as well as the undergraduate microelectronics teaching laboratory are housed in an 8,500-square-foot class 100 / class 1000 clean room with a full complement of utilities, including high purity deionized water, high purity nitrogen, and exhaust scrubbers. The NRF supports research on nanometer-scale fabrication and on the study of fundamental quantum size effects, as well as exploration of innovative nanometer-scale device concepts. The laboratory also supports many other schoolwide programs in device fabrication, such as MEMS and optoelectronics. For more information, see http://www.nanolab. ucla.edu.

Photonics and Optoelectronics Laboratories

In the Laser Laboratory students study the properties of lasers and gain an understanding of the application of this modern technology to optics, communication, and holography.

The Photonics and Optoelectronics Laboratories include facilities for research in all of the basic areas of quantum electronics. Specific areas of experimental investigation include high-powered lasers, nonlinear optical processes, ultrafast lasers, parametric frequency conversion, electro-optics, infrared detection, and semiconductor lasers and detectors. Operating lasers include mode-locked and Q-switched Nd:YAG and Nd:YLF lasers, Ti:Al2O3 lasers, ultraviolet and visible wavelength argon lasers, wavelength-tunable dye lasers, as well as gallium arsenide, helium-neon, excimer, and high-powered continuous and pulsed carbon dioxide laser systems. Also available are equipment and facilities for research on semiconductor lasers, fiber optics, non-linear optics, and ultrashort laser pulses. Facilities for mirror polishing and coating and high-vacuum gas handling systems are also available.

These laboratories are open to undergraduate and graduate students who have faculty sponsorship for their thesis projects or special studies.

Plasma Electronics Facilities

Two laboratories are dedicated to the study of the effects of intense laser radiation on matter in the plasma state. One, located in Engineering IV, houses a state-of-the-art table top terrawatt (T3) 400fs laser system that can be operated in either a single or dual frequency mode for laser-plasma interaction studies. Diagnostic equipment includes a ruby laser scattering system, a streak camera, and optical spectrographs and multichannel analyzer. Parametric instabilities such as stimulated Raman scattering have been studied, as well as the resonant excitation of plasma waves by optical mixing. The second laboratory, located in Boelter Hall, houses the MARS laser, currently the largest on-campus university CO2 laser in the U.S. It can produce 200J, 170ps pulses of CO2 radiation, focusable to 1016 W/cm2. The laser is used for testing new ideas for laser-driven particle accelerators and free-electron lasers. Several high-pressure, short-pulse drivers can be used on the MARS; other equipment includes a theta-pinch plasma generator, an electron linac injector, and electron detectors and analyzers.

A second group of laboratories is dedicated to basic research in plasma sources for basic experiments, plasma processing, and plasma heating.

Solid-State Electronics Facilities

Solid-state electronics equipment and facilities include (1) a modern integrated semiconductor device processing laboratory, (2) complete new Si and III-V compound molecular beam epitaxy systems, (3) CAD and mask-making facilities, (4) lasers for beam crystallization study, (5) thin film and characterization equipment, (6) deep-level transient spectroscopy instruments, (7) computerized capacitance-voltage and other characterization equipment, including doping density profiling systems, (8) low-temperature facilities for material and device physics studies in cryogenic temperatures, (9) optical equipment, including many different types of lasers for optical characterization of superlattice and quantum well devices, (10) characterization equipment for high-speed devices, including (11) high magnetic field facilities for magnetotransport measurement of heterostructures.

The laboratory facilities are available to faculty, staff, and graduate students for their research.

Wireless Communications Research Group

The Wireless Communications Research Group is interdisciplinary and brings together expertise in sensors, signal processing, integrated circuits, computer networking, RF design, digital communication, and antenna design. The aim of this group is to investigate the design, fabrication, and deployment of wireless communication systems for sensor-based monitoring, as well as speech, video, and computer data networking. The signal processing element focuses on compression of speech (Professor Abeer A.H. Alwan) and video (Professor John D. Villasenor) information for efficient utilization of radio bandwidth. Wireless sensor research focuses on very low-power systems (Professors William J. Kaiser, Oscar M. Stafsudd, and Gregory J. Pottie) for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting sensor data through wireless networking. The integrated circuits element concentrates on design of radio frequency analog circuits (Professors Asad A. Abidi and Behzad Razavi) and digital modem circuits (Professor Babak Daneshrad) for integrated radios. Networking research (Professor Mani B. Srivastava) is aimed at developing new network control techniques for reducing power consumption and adapting to mobility and bandwidth limitations in wireless environments. The digital communications effort (Professors Gregory J. Pottie, Michael P. Fitz, Richard D. Wesel, and Babak Daneshrad) is creating new system design techniques for communication devices that reduce power consumption and improve performance by exploiting fundamental advances in modulation and coding theory. The antenna design research (Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii) is creating new integrated structures for improved sensitivity and radiation patterns.

The Wireless Communications Research Group has a very strong focus on applying basic research in each of the above domains to building practical wireless systems that address the future needs of society in providing every citizen with access to worldwide computer networks and databases, as well as providing low-cost widespread personalized services such as multiplexed data, speech, video, and intelligent sensor-based systems for personal security. Current prototype systems that have been built include low-power sensor networks and portable computer networking systems for video as well as speech and data services.

Graduate students have an opportunity to perform fundamental research in any of the areas mentioned above while developing a systems viewpoint and obtaining rich experience in the practical art. Industry sponsors can leverage the unique combination of talents in the multiple disciplines that are essential to develop integrated low-cost, low-power wireless systems to address needs in a variety of sectors such as financial information management, personal communications, and educational networks. The facilities for this research group include a test-bed consisting of commercial as well as research prototypes for conducting experiments in wireless communications to develop new ideas for signal processing, modulation, and networking algorithms as well as for integrated circuit architectures and integrated antennas. The group is supported by DARPA and several industries.

Faculty Areas of Thesis Guidance

Professors

Asad A. Abidi, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1981)

High-performance analog electronics, device modeling

Abeer A.H. Alwan, Ph.D. (MIT, 1992)

Speech processing, acoustic properties of speech sounds with applications to speech synthesis, recognition by machine and coding, hearing-aid design, and digital signal processing

*A.V. Balakrishnan, Ph.D. (USC, 1954)1

Control and communications, flight systems applications

Elliott R. Brown, Ph.D. (Cal Tech, 1985)

Ultrafast electronics and optoelectronics, microwave and power electronics, infrared and RF sensors and materials, biomedical and remote chem-bio sensors

Frank M.C. Chang, Ph.D. (National Chiao-Tung U., Taiwan, 1979)

High-speed semiconductor (GaAs, InP, and Si) devices and integrated circuits for digital, analog, microwave, and optoelectronic integrated circuit applications

Harold R. Fetterman, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1968)

Optical millimeter wave interactions, high-frequency optical polymer modulators and applications, solid-state millimeter wave structures and systems, biomedical applications of lasers

Michael P. Fitz, Ph.D. (USC, 1989)

Physical layer communication theory and implementation with applications in wireless systems

Warren S. Grundfest, M.D., FACS (Columbia U., 1980)

Development of lasers for medical applications, minimally invasive surgery, magnetic resonance-guided interventional procedures, laser lithotripsy, microendoscopy, spectroscopy, photodynamic therapy (PDT), optical technology, biologic feedback control mechanisms

Tatsuo Itoh, Ph.D. (Illinois, Urbana, 1969)

Microwave and millimeter wave electronics; guided wave structures; low-power wireless electronics; integrated passive components and antennas; photonic bandgap structures and meta materials applications; active integrated antennas, smart antennas; RF technologies for reconfigurable front-ends; sensors and transponders

Stephen E. Jacobsen, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1968)

Operations research, mathematical programming, nonconvex programming, applications of mathematical programming to engineering and engineering/economic systems

Rajeev Jain, Ph.D. (Katholieke U., Leuven, Belgium, 1985)

Design of digital communications and digital signal processing circuits and systems

Bahram Jalali, Ph.D. (Columbia U. 1989)

RF photonics, integrated optics, fiber optic integrated circuits

Chandrashekhar J. Joshi, Ph.D. (Hull U., England, 1978)

Laser fusion, laser acceleration of particles, nonlinear optics, high-power lasers, plasma physics

William J. Kaiser, Ph.D. (Wayne State, 1983)

Research and development of new microsensor and microinstrument technology for industry, science, and biomedical applications; development and applications of new atomic-resolution scanning probe microscopy methods for microelectronic device research

Nhan Levan, Ph.D. (Monash U., Australia, 1966)

Control systems, stability and stabilizability, errors in dynamic systems, signal analysis, wavelets, theory and applications

Jia-Ming Liu, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1982)

Nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, laser chaos, semiconductor lasers, optoelectronics, photonics, nonlinear and ultrafast processes

Warren B. Mori, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1987)

Laser and charged particle beam-plasma interactions, advanced accelerator concepts, advanced light sources, laser-fusion, high-energy density science, high-performance computing, plasma physics

Dee-Son Pan, Ph.D. (Cal Tech, 1977)

New semiconductor devices for millimeter and RF power generation and amplification, transport in small geometry semiconductor devices, generic device modeling

*C. Kumar N. Patel, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1961)2

Nonlinear optics, opto-acoustic effects and applications, spectroscopy of transplant liquids and solids, medical applications of lasers

Gregory J. Pottie, Ph.D. (McMaster, 1988)

Communication systems and theory, with applications to robust communication links, channel coding and wireless sensor networks

Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Ph.D. (Illinois, 1975)

Satellite communications antennas, personal communication antennas including human interactions, antennas for remote sensing and radio astronomy applications, advanced numerical and genetic optimization techniques in electromagnetics, frequency selective surfaces and photonic band gap structures, novel integrated and fractal antennas, near-field antenna measurements and diagnostic techniques, electromagnetic theory

Behzad Razavi, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1992)

Analog, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, dual-standard RF transceivers, phase-locked systems and frequency synthesizers, A/D and D/A converters, high-speed data communication circuits

Vwani P. Roychowdhury, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1989)

Models of computation including parallel and distributed processing systems, quantum computation and information processing, circuits and computing paradigms for nano-electronics and molecular electronics, adaptive and learning algorithms, nonparametric methods and algorithms for large-scale information processing, combinatorics and complexity, and information theory

Izhak Rubin, Ph.D. (Princeton, 1970)

Telecommunications and computer communications systems and networks, mobile wireless networks, multimedia IP networks, UAV/UGV-aided networks, integrated system and network management, C4ISR systems and networks, optical networks, network simulations and analysis, traffic modeling and engineering

Henry Samueli, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1980)

VLSI implementation of signal processing and digital communication systems, high-speed digital integrated circuits, digital filter design

Ali H. Sayed, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1992)

Adaptive systems, statistical and digital signal processing, estimation theory, signal processing for communications, linear system theory, interplays between signal processing and control methodologies, and fast algorithms for large-scale problems

Mani B. Srivastava, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1992)

Wireless and mobile computing and networking systems, networked and distributed embedded systems, low-power and power-aware systems, system-on-a-chip design tools

Oscar M. Stafsudd, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1967)

Quantum electronics: I.R. lasers and nonlinear optics; solid-state: I.R. detectors

John D. Villasenor, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1989)

Communications, signal and image processing, configurable computing systems, and design environments

Chand R. Viswanathan, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1964)

Semiconductor electronics: VLSI devices and technology, thin oxides; reliability and failure physics of MOS devices; process-induced damage, low-frequency noise

Kang L. Wang, Ph.D. (MIT, 1970)

Nanoelectronics and optoelectronics, MBE and superlattices, microwave and millimeter electronics/optoelectronics, quantum computing

Paul K.C. Wang, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1960)

Control systems, modeling and control of nonlinear distributed-parameter systems with applications to micro-opto-electromechanical systems, micro and nano manipulation systems, coordination and control of multiple microspacecraft in formation

Alan N. Willson, Jr., Ph.D. (Syracuse, 1967)

Theory and application of digital signal processing including VLSI implementations, digital filter design, nonlinear circuit theory

Jason C.S. Woo, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1987)

Solid-state technology, CMOS and bipolar device/circuit optimization, novel device design, modeling of integrated circuits, VLSI fabrication

Ming C. Wu, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1988)

MEMS, micro-opto-electromechanical systems (MOEMS), optoelectronics, RF photonics, optical communications

Eli Yablonovitch, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1972)

Optoelectronics, high-speed optical communications, photonic integrated circuits, photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and communication

Kung Yao, Ph.D. (Princeton, 1965)

Communication theory, signal and array processing, sensor system, wireless communication systems, VLSI and systolic algorithms

Professors Emeriti

Frederick G. Allen, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1956)

Semiconductor physics, solid-state devices, surface physics

Francis F. Chen, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1954)

Plasma processing of semiconductor circuits

Robert S. Elliott, Ph.D. (Illinois, 1952)

Electromagnetics

Richard E. Mortensen, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1966)

Optimal control, stochastic control, nonlinear filtering, estimation theory, guidance and navigation

H.J. Orchard, M.Sc. (U. London, 1951)

Circuit theory, network design, filters, RC-active circuits

Frederick W. Schott, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1949)

Electromagnetics, applied electromagnetics

Gabor C. Temes, Ph.D. (U. Ottawa, 1961)

Analog MOS integrated circuits, signal processing, analog and digital filters

|Donald M. Wiberg, Ph.D. (Cal Tech, 1965)3

Identification and control, especially of aerospace, biomedical, mechanical, and nuclear processes, modeling and simulation of respiratory and cardiovascular systems

Jack Willis, B.Sc. (U. London, 1945)

Active circuits, electronic systems

Associate Professors

Babak Daneshrad, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1993)

Digital VLSI circuits: wireless communication systems, high-performance communications integrated circuits for wireless applications

Jack W. Judy, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1996)

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), micromachining, microsensors, microactuators, and microsystems, neuroengineering, neural-electronic interfaces, neuroMEMS, implantable electronic systems, wireless telemetry, neural prostheses, and magnetism and magnetic materials

William H. Mangione-Smith, Ph.D. (Michigan, 1992)

Computer architecture and microarchitecture design and evaluation, compiler technology for low power and high performance

Fernando G. Paganini, Ph.D. (Cal Tech, 1996)

Robust and optimal control, distributed control, control communication networks, power systems

Lieven Vandenberghe, Ph.D. (Katholieke U., Leuven, Belgium, 1992)

Optimization in engineering and applications in systems and control, circuit design, and signal processing

Ingrid M. Verbauwhede, Ph.D. (Katholieke U., Leuven, Belgium, 1991)

Embedded systems, VLSI, architecture and circuit design and design methodologies for applications in security, wireless communications and signal processing

Richard D. Wesel, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1996)

Communication theory and signal processing with particular interests in channel coding, including turbo codes and trellis codes, joint algorithms for distributed communication and detection

Assistant Professors

Lei He, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1999)

Computer-aided design of VLSI circuits and systems, high-performance interconnect modeling and design, programmable logic devices, power-efficient computer architectures and systems, numerical and combinatorial optimization

Yuanxun Ethan Wang, Ph.D. (Texas, Austin, 1999)

Smart antennas, RF and microwave power amplifiers, numerical techniques, DSP techniques for microwave systems, phased arrays, wireless and radar systems, microwave integrated circuits

C.-K. Ken Yang, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1998)

High-performance VLSI design, digital and mixed-signal circuit design

Adjunct Professors

Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, Ph.D. (Michigan, 1968)

Integrated microwave and millimeter wave circuits and antennas, substrate materials and thin films, electromagnetic theory

Giorgio Franceschetti, Ph.D. (Higher Institute of Telecommunications, Rome, 1961)

Electromagnetic radiation and scattering, nonlinear propagation, synthetic aperture radar processing

Brian H. Kolner, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1985)

Ultrashort light pulse generation and detection, compact femtosecond sources, mode-locking and pulse compression, noninvasive characterization of high-speed semiconductor devices and circuits

Joel Schulman, Ph.D. (Cal Tech, 1979)

Semiconductor super lattices, solid-state physics

Pyotr Y. Ufimtsev, Ph.D. (Central Research Institute, Radio Industry, Moscow, Russia, 1959)

Electromagnetics, diffraction theory, gaseous waveguides, materials

Adjunct Associate Professor

Bijan Houshmand, Ph.D., (Illinois, Urbana, 1990)

Computational electromagnetics, microwave imaging, and remote sensing

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Charles Chien, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1995)

End to end radio systems for high-speed adaptive wireless multimedia communications, multiband adaptive radio front-end architecture, adaptive spread-spectrum transceiver architectures, and digital baseband transceiver integrated circuits for low-power high-performance applications

1. Also Professor of Mathematics

2. Also Professor of Physics

3. Also Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology