The Outstanding Staff Award celebrates individuals who consistently perform above and beyond expectations with exceptional service, innovative approaches, community engagement and commitment to the college's community core values and diversity, equity and inclusion.
The College of Engineering at the University of California, Davis, has selected electrical engineering student Hari Rakul Ambethkar to receive its highest honor for a graduating senior, the M.S. Ghausi Medal. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has also identified Ambethkar to receive its Outstanding Senior Award.
Pranav Rawat had a moment of clarity when he took “Circuits I” at UC Davis. With circuity, he finally found a way to create physical models of the systems he had toyed with in his head his whole life.
For a master’s thesis describing a processing framework that achieved a 32 million-times improvement in speed and energy efficiency over NVIDIA, the College of Engineering celebrates Sagar Sajeev, a recent electrical and computer engineering alum.
For innovative research on chips that can sustain high speeds without sacrificing power or signal amplification, a feat necessary for realizing the wireless networks of tomorrow, Phat Nguyen has received the Zuhair A. Munir Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Engineering at UC Davis.
Pranta Saha, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering, was selected in recognition of his work to advance the future of semiconductor devices, technology, design and manufacturing through scalable quantum technologies.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Marina Radulaski and Associate Professor of Computer Science Mohammad Sadoghi are among this year’s class of Chancellor’s Fellows at the University of California, Davis. The distinction is given to early academics doing exemplary work in their fields.
In 2016, Aggie Engineers set the stage with a groundbreaking paper on the methodical implementation of deep convolutional neural networks. Now, one of the world’s largest international conferences on silicon semiconductor research, ASP-DAC, is recognizing the paper as the most influential article published over the last decade.
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 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.
