Our ECE Faculty Make a Difference
Our faculty are the cornerstone of our department's education and research, preparing students for careers in fields that have tremendous impact on key areas of modern life while also upholding our university's public-service mission. Our faculty members are renowned throughout the state, nation and world for their cutting-edge electronic and computer engineering discoveries and contributions. Find out about their many well-deserved honors, awards and recognitions.
Academic Awards and Recognitions
- National Medal of Technology
- Jerry Woodall
- National Academy of Engineering Members
- Robert Bower - Emeritus, Deceased
Jonathan Heritage - Emeritus
Linda Katehi - Distinguished Faculty Emerita
Gary May
Jerry Woodall - National Academy of Inventors Fellows
- Soheil Ghiasi
Saif Islam
Linda Katehi - Distinguished Faculty Emerita
Jerry Woodall - American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
- Rajeevan Amirtharajah
Saif Islam
Linda Katehi - Distinguished Faculty Emerita
Gary May
John Owens
Jerry Woodall
Chen-Nee Chuah - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Life Fellows
- Robert Bower - Emeritus, Deceased
William Gardner - Emeritus
Tien C. “Steve” Hsia - Emeritus
Shu Lin - Emeritus
Robert Redinbo - Emeritus
Ronald Soohoo - Emeritus, Deceased - IEEE Fellows
- Chen-Nee Chuah
Shuguang “Robert” Cui
Robert Current - Emeritus, Deceased
Zhi Ding
Richard Dorf - Emeritus
Mohammed Ghausi - Emeritus
Jonathan Heritage - Emeritus
Paul Hurst
Saif Islam
Linda Katehi - Distinguished Faculty Emerita
Brian Kolner
Bernard Levy
Stephen Lewis
Neville Luhmann
Gary May
Vojin G. Oklobdzija - Emeritus
John Owens
Richard Spencer - Emeritus
Anh-Vu Pham
Jerry Woodall
S.J. Ben Yoo
Junshan Zhang - Optica Fellows
- Jonathan Heritage - Emeritus
Saif Islam
Andre Knoesen
Brian Kolner
Jeremy Munday
S.J. Ben Yoo - American Physical Society Fellows
- Robert Bower - Emeritus, Deceased
Herman Fink - Emeritus, Deceased
Jonathan Heritage - Emeritus
Neville Luhmann
Jerry Woodall - American Vacuum Society Fellows
- Jerry Woodall
- Electrochemical Society Fellows
- Jerry Woodall
- SPIE Fellows
- Saif Islam
- SPIE Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award
- Saif Islam
- SPIE Early Career Achievement Award
- Jeremy Munday
- OneQuantum Leading Female Researcher Award
- Marina Radulaski
- David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellowships
- Brian Kolner
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award Winners
- Venkatesh Akella
Hussain Al-Asaad
Rajeevan Amirtharajah
Bevan Baas
Chen-Nee Chuah
J. Sebastian Gomez-Diaz
Jane Gu
Saif Islam
Linda Katehi - Distinguished Faculty Emerita
Lifeng Lai
Gary May
Omeed Momeni
Jeremy Munday
Anh-Vu Pham
William Putnam
Marina Radulaski
Erkin Şeker
Weijian Yang
Junshan Zhang - National Society of Black Engineers Lifetime Member of the Year
- Gary May
- DOE Early Career Principal Investigator
- John Owens
- National Academy of Engineering Simon Ramo Founders Award
- Linda Katehi - Distinguished Faculty Emerita
- IEEE Third Millennium Medal Winners
- Linda Katehi - Distinguished Faculty Emerita
Shu Lin - Emeritus
Stephen Lewis
Jerry Woodall - Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Scientists
- Chen-Nee Chuah
John Owens - Optical Society of America R.W. Wood Prize
- Jonathan Heritage - Emeritus
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Prizes
- Robert Bower - Emeritus, Deceased
Mohammed Ghausi - Emeritus
Jonathan Heritage - Emeritus
Shu Lin - Emeritus - ECEDHA Diversity Award
- Renetta Garrison Tull
- Robert L. Woods Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics
- Neville Luhmann
- IEEE John R. Pierce Award
- Neville Luhmann
- IEEE Jack R. Morton Award
- Jerry Woodall
- IEEE Leon Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
- Shu Lin - Emeritus
- William Streifer Award of the IEEE LEOS Society
- Jonathan Heritage - Emeritus
- IEEE Jun-ichci Nishizawa Medal
- Jerry Woodall
- Institute of Physics Kenneth J. Button Award
- Neville Luhmann
- American Vacuum Society Founders Medal and Award/Welch Award
- Jerry Woodall
- IEEE Communications Society Education Award
- Zhi Ding
- IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award
- Ahn-Vu Pham
- IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Distinguished Microwave Lecturer
- Ahn-Vu Pham
- IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prizes for Best Original Paper
- William Gardner - Emeritus
Shu Lin- Emeritus - IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award
- Jeremy Munday
- IEEE Best Papers
- Chen-Nee Chuah
Houman Homayoon
Saif Islam
Linda Katehi (3) - Distinguished Faculty Emerita
Junshan Zhang (4) - ACM Best Papers
- Houman Homayoun (2)
Junshan Zhang - ISSCC 50-Year Anniversary Museum Paper Award
- Stephen Lewis
- ISSCC 50-Year Anniversary Author Honor Roll Winners
- Paul Hurst
Stephen Lewis - ISSCC Beatrice Winner Awards for Editorial Excellence
- Paul Hurst
Stephen Lewis
Richard Spencer - Emeritus - DARPA Young Faculty Award
- Jeremy Munday
- DARPA Director's Fellowship Award
- Jeremy Munday
- OSA Adolph Lomb Medal
- Jeremy Munday
- NASA Early Career Faculty Space Technology Research Award
- Jeremy Munday
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
- Jeremy Munday
Junshan Zhang - Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator
- William Putnam
Marina Radulaski - Georgia Teach College of Engineering Hall of Fame
- Gary May
UC Davis Awards and Recognitions
- Chancellor's Fellow
- Chen-Nee Chuah
Sebastian Gomez-Diaz
Jane Gu - ADVANCE Scholar Award
- Chen-Nee Chuah
- Distinguished Emeriti Award
- V. Ralph Algazi - Emeritus
- Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Awards
- Hussain Al-Asaad
Gary Ford - Emeritus
Saif Islam
Erkin Şeker - Distinguished Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentoring Award
- Erkin Şeker
- Graduate Advising and Mentoring Award
- Joshua Hihath
- Outstanding Research/Teacher/Mentor Award Winners
- Gary Ford - Emeritus
Saif Islam
Stephen Lewis
Neville Luhmann (2)
Ronald Soohoo - Emeritus, Deceased
S.J. Ben Yoo - Outstanding Engineering Faculty Teaching Awards
- Stephen Lewis
Hooman Rashtian - College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Awards
- Chen-Nee Chuah
Saif Islam
Jane Gu - College of Engineering Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Research Awards
- Saif Islam
S.J. Ben Yoo - College of Engineering Outstanding Senior Career Research Awards
- Chen-Nee Chuah
Zhi Ding
S.J. Ben Yoo - College of Engineering Best Teaching Award
- ECE GSA Awards for Graduate Teaching and Mentorship
- Rajeevan Amitharajah
John Owens - ECE Distinguished Research Award
- John Owens
- ECE Distinguished Teaching Award
- Andre Knoesen
Weijian Yang
Diego Yankelevich - ECE Distinguished Service Award
- Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar
- IEEE Student Association’s Professor of the Year Awards
- Hussain Al-Asaad
Rajeevan Amitharajah
Chen-Nee Chuah (2)
Gary Ford - Emeritus
Josh Hihath
Saif Islam (2)
Andre Knoesen
Stephen Lewis (2)
Xiaoguang “Leo” Liu
Omeed Momeni
Hooman Rashtian (3)
Richard Spencer (5) - Emeritus
Diego Yankelevich - ASUCD Academic Excellence in Education Award
- Hooman Rashtian