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Sisters Vanessa and Victoria Liera, Electrical Engineering (ECE) students and founders of the Club Of Future Female Electrical Engineers (COFFEE), appeared on a recent episode of UC Davis’ web show Face to Face with Chancellor May, where they discussed diversity, equity, and inclusion in the ECE department and elsewhere at UC Davis. They were also featured in the November 8th episode of the show The College Tour, available through Amazon Prime Video and a variety of streaming apps.     

Two UC Davis Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) postdocs, Soheil Salehi and Matthew Drescher, were recently named 2020 and 2021 Computer Innovation Fellows (CIFellows), respectively, by the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC).

Toluwanimi (Toluwa) Odemuyiwa, Ph.D. student, advised by John Owens, was just chosen for one of Microsoft's prestigious Ph.D. fellowships. 

Please join us in celebrating ECE Ph.D. student, Mason Del Rosario, for being selected for participation in the 2021-2022 Professors for the Future (PFTF) program. The PFTF is a year-long competitive fellowship program designed to recognize and develop the leadership skills of outstanding graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who have demonstrated their commitment to professionalism, integrity, and academic service.

Please join us in celebrating ECE Ph.D. student, Calum Shelden, as a recipient of a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support including an annual stipend of $34,000 and a cost of education allowance of $12,000 to the institution.

ECE Ph.D. student, Xian Xiao, has been named a recipient of the Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award from the College of Engineering for his significant contributions to the field of photonics.

Originally posted by Leon Szeto

Please join us in celebrating ECE Ph.D. student, Connie Duong, as the recipient of an Institute of International Education (IIE) Graduate International Research Experiences Program scholarship. Through a wide variety of educational programs sponsored by the U.S. government, corporations, foundations and foreign governments, the IIE annually works with thousands of U.S.

ECE Ph.D. student, Nguyen L.K. Nguyen, advised by Professor Anh-Vu Pham, was awarded the Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference 2020 (APMC 2020), Prize for the best regular paper under the Microwaves category. The paper titled, "A High Output Power 1 - 150 GHz Distributed Power Amplifier in InP HBT Technology,” co-authored by Nguyen L.K. Nguyen, Dr. Duy P. Nguyen, Dr. Alexander Stameroff, and Professor Anh-Vu Pham.

Please join us in celebrating ECE PhD student, Connie Duong as the recipient of a Richard and Joy Dorf Engineering Fellowship Award.

Congratulations to Gengchen Liu, advised by Professor S.J. Ben Yoo, for winning the Best Student Paper Prize at the 2020 OSA Advanced Photonics Congress for the topical meeting in Photonics in Switching and Computing.

By Rachel Steere

Veronica Contreras, B.S.,’20, electrical engineering, was very involved as an undergraduate student at the UC Davis College of Engineering.

Congratulations to Hai Yu, co-advised by Professors Q. Jane Gu and J. Sebastian Gomez-Diaz, winning the Best Student Paper Award, 3rd Place at the 2020 IEEE International Microwave Symposium IMS2020, the flagship conference of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.

A team of students in the Radulaski Lab: Victoria Norman, Sridhar Majety, Jesse Patton and Liang Li, won the California division of the Qiskit Summer Jam Hackathon, sponsored by IBM.

Please join us in congratulating this year’s inaugural recipients of the Smita Bakshi Digital Learning & Teaching Award! The Smita Bakshi Digital Learning & Teaching Award was given out to Juan Arguello, Sean Alling, Tim Ambrose, Hongbo Lu and Nicholas Hosein at the 2020 ECE Awards Ceremony on Friday, June 12.

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