COFFEE is a student club that offers academic support, networking opportunities and community for electrical and computer engineering students. Since its founding in 2018, the club has grown from a small group to a cornerstone organization making visible, impactful enhancements to student life.
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.
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.
Babak Taheri, Ph.D. ’94, has helped shape the technologies behind smartphones, motion sensing and the Internet of Things. Now, he is investing in the next generation of UC Davis engineers by supporting the André Knoesen Teaching Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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.
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.
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.
Comstock’s Magazine highlights The Make Box, an education startup founded by UC Davis electrical and computer engineering alum Kavya Khare, as this month’s promising startup from California’s Capital Region.
Neil Jacklin earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis, where he focused on systems engineering, signal processing, and applied research.
Constance Chang-Hasnain received her B.S. from UC Davis in 1982 and her M.S. and Ph.D from UC Berkeley in 1984 and 1987, respectively, all in electrical engineering.
Li, who was the first in her family to go to college, came to UC Davis in 2001, having immigrated from China, where she earned her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Charles Chuck Nichols is a longtime leader of California agriculture and the president of Nichols Farms, one of the largest family-owned pistachio growing, processing and marketing companies in the state.
Michael Coffey graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 1984 and a master's degree in management from Golden Gate University before going on to a nearly 40-year career.
