Each year, students, faculty and alumni in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering nominate alumni who have made a significant impact as leaders or researchers and brought distinction to themselves and UC Davis.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to present the Winter quarter Distinguished Seminar Series. ECE will host distinguished guests in the weekly seminar series, scheduled for Fridays. The first seminar guest is scheduled for Friday, February 6, 1:10 - 2:00 p.m. in Giedt Hall, room 1001. Seminars are free and open to the public.
The world’s largest technical professional organization has granted Lifeng Lai its highest honor: the membership grade of Fellow. The title celebrates Lai's extraordinary advancements in engineering, science and technology, specifically his outstanding contributions to secure and spectrally efficient wireless communications systems.
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Zhi Ding is the 39th recipient of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. The donor-funded $80,000 prize, supported by the UC Davis Foundation, is among the largest of its kind in the country.
Electrical and computer engineer Claudio Lopez Osses, M.S. ’20, Ph.D. ’22, is accelerating the next generation of nuclear science through the use of artificial intelligence at Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, or CNL, at the University of California, Davis.
Materials Today has honored Marina Radulaski, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, with a Rising Star Award for her outstanding research and promise for continued leadership in quantum materials and electronics.
Professor G. R. Branner has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Santa Clara Valley-San Francisco Joint Section Chapter. The honor celebrates his remarkable achievements in advancing RF and microwave education and technologies.
Engineers at the University of California, Davis, have invented a device that can generate mechanical power at night by linking the natural warmth around us to the cold depths of space. The invention could be used, for example, to ventilate greenhouses or other buildings.
Electrical engineering alum Tim Bucher ’86 combines Silicon Valley innovation with agricultural roots. As CEO and co-founder of Agtonomy, he’s developing autonomous tractor technology to help growers tackle rising costs and labor shortages.
Two more electrical and computer engineering alumni with connections to the Center for Hardware and Embedded Security and Trust, or CHEST, have secured faculty positions in academia mere months after graduation.
