Convergence Mag notes 6 ECE Faculty
Each year, UCSB College of Engineering faculty receive many of the most prestigious honors awarded by academic and professional societies in recognition of their innovative research and their discovery of new scientific knowledge. Here are the honors bestowed upon ECE faculty by their peers since July 1, 2023.
Shuji Nakamura – Professor, ECE and Materials
LpS Digital Innovation Award, LpS Digital Summit
The premier digital-lighting conference honored Nakamura, who received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the blue LED, for impactful contributions to energy and lighting, and for his dedication to global sustainability.
Haewon Jeong – ECE Assistant Professor
Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
Jeong received a five-year, nearly $600,000 grant to analyze the data-preparation pipeline in order to make end-to-end equitable machine learning possible. She will examine real-world dataset problems, such as missing values and data imbalance, to determine how bias can be either amplified or mitigated during the process of preparing data.
Jason Marden – ECE Professor
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Marden was elevated by his peers to the status of Fellow in recognition of his “contributions to game theory for distributed control systems.” His work focuses on engineering desired behavior in sociotechnical systems, which are systems comprising both engineered and social components.
Larry A. Coldren – Emeritus Professor, ECE and Materials
Heinrich Welker Award, International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors
The Welker Award recognizes Coldren for high achievement in materials technology, resulting in seminal contributions to tunable lasers, vertical cavity lasers, and photonic integrated circuits.
John Bowers – Distinguished Professor, ECE and Materials
Jun-ichi Nishizawa Prize, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Bowers, the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology and the director of UCSB’s Institute for Energy Efficiency (see P. 12), was honored for his “contributions to photonic integrated circuit technologies.” The award recognizes Bowers for the impact his innovations have made on his profession and the world.
Nina Miolane – ECE Assistant Professor
Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation and Faculty Fellowship, Hellman Foundation
Miolane received a five-year, nearly $500,000 Early CAREER Award to further develop methods to precisely quantify every nuance of geometries captured in live 3D images, an accomplishment that could enable breakthroughs in data-driven biomedicine.
