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2003
CENS Undergraduate Research Experience Faculty Champions
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Deborah
Estrin
Professor Deborah Estrin is a Professor
of Computer Science at UCLA and is Director of the NSF-funded
Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). Estrin
received her Ph.D. (1985) in Computer Science from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her M.S. (1982)
from M.I.T. and her B.S. (1980) from U.C. Berkeley.
Before joining UCLA she was a member of the University
of Southern California Computer Science Department from
1986 through the middle of 2000. She is also a member
of the Computer Networks Division at the USC Information
Sciences Institute.
In 1987, Professor Estrin received the National Science
Foundation, Presidential Young Investigator Award for
her research in network interconnection and security.
During the subsequent 10 years much of her research
focused on the design of network and routing protocols
for very large, global, networks, such as: scalable
multicast routing and transport protocols, self-configuring
protocol mechanisms for scalability and robustness,
and tools and methods for designing and studying large
scale networks. More recently, Professor Estrin has
been collaborating with her colleagues and students
at UCLA and USC/ISI to develop protocols and systems
architectures needed to realize rapidly-deployable and
robustly-operating networks of many thousands of physically-embedded
devices, e.g., sensor networks, toasternet, etc. She
is particularly interested in the application of spatially
and temporally dense embedded sensors to environmental
monitoring. Professor Estrin is a fellow in the ACM
and AAAS and a Senior member of the IEEE.
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Ramesh Govindan
Ramesh Govindan received his B. Tech.
degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at
Madras, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of California at Berkeley. He is an Associate Professor
in the Computer Science Department at the University
of Southern California. His research interests include
Internet routing and topology, and wireless sensor
networks.
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William
Kaiser
Professor Kaiser received a PhD in Solid
State Physics from Wayne State University in 1984. From
1977 through 1986, as a member of Ford Motor Co. Research
Staff, his development of automotive sensor and embedded
system technology resulted in large volume commercial
sensor production. At Ford, he also developed the first
spectroscopies based on scanning tunneling microscopy.
From 1986 through 1994, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Dr. Kaiser developed and demonstrated the first electron
tunnel sensors for acceleration and infrared detection
and initiated the NASA/JPL microinstrument program.
In 1994, Professor Kaiser joined the faculty of the
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. At UCLA, he
initiated the distributed networked embedded sensor
field via many large collaborative programs across several
departments. These combined UCLA research activities
have now lead to the creation of many new programs within
DARPA, NSF, NASA, and in commercial technology corporations.
He served as Electrical Engineering Department Chairman
from 1996 through 2000. Dr. Kaiser has over 100 publications,
100 invited presentations and 21 patents. He has received
the Allied Signal Faculty Research Award, the Peter
Mark Award of the American Vacuum Society, the NASA
Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, the Arch
Colwell Best Paper Award of the Society of Automotive
Engineers, and two R&D 100 Awards.
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Gregory
Pottie
Gregory J. Pottie received the B.Sc.
degree in engineering physics from Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1984, and the M.Eng. and
Ph.D. degrees from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada in 1985 and 1988, respectively. From 1989 to
1991, he was with the Transmission Research Department
of Codex/Motorola, Mansfield, MA, where he was involved
in high-speed digital subscriber lines and coding and
equalization schemes for voice-band modems. He has been
on the faculty of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
since 1991, where he is now a Professor, and Vice Chair
of Graduate Programs.
Dr. Pottie’s research interests include channel
coding theory, wireless communication systems, and wireless
sensor networks. Current projects include design of
robust links in mobile networks and investigation of
information theoretic issues in sensor networks. From
1997 to 1999 he was secretary to the board of governors
for the IEEE Information Theory Society. In 1998 he
was named the faculty researcher of the year for the
UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr.
Pottie is a member of the Bruin Master's Swim Club (butterfly),
the St. Alban's Choir (2nd bass), and is a co-founder
of Sensoria Corporation.
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Aristides Requicha
Dr. Requicha is a Professor of Computer
Science and Electrical Engineering at USC, where he
also directs the Laboratory for Molecular Robotics
since 1994 and the Programmable Automation Laboratory
since 1986. He received the Engenheiro Electrotécnico
degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico,
Lisbon, Portugal, in 1962, and the Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1970.
He was a college and high school Valedictorian, and
is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has been an editor for
the ACM Transactions on Graphics, the IEEE Transactions
on Robotics and Automation, and other journals, and
has served on numerous conference program committees.
He has authored or co-authored about 150 scientific
papers.
He joined USC in 1986, after thirteen
years at the University of Rochester, where most recently
he was the Director of the Production Automation Project.
He also has been a lecturer in physics at the University
of Lisbon, Portugal, a lieutenant in the Portuguese
Air Force, and a research scientist with NATO's SACLANT
Research Center in La Spezia, Italy.
His current research is focused on the
science and engineering required to interact with
the nanometer-scale world. He directs USC's Laboratory
for Molecular Robotics, an interdisciplinary center
whose ultimate goal is to control the structure of
matter at the molecular scale. The lab is now developing
systems for manipulating nanoscale objects using Scanning
Probe Microscopes (SPMs) as sensory robots. Applications
in nanoelectronics, nanoelectromechanical systems
(NEMS) and nanobiotechnology are being investigated.
This work is evolving towards the construction and
deployment of autonomous nanorobots.
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Stefano
Soatto
Professor Soatto received his Ph.D. in
Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute
of Technology in 1996; he joined UCLA in 2000 after
being Assistant and then Associate Professor of Electrical
and Biomedical Engineering at Washington University,
and Research Associate in Applied Sciences at Harvard
University. Between 1995 and 1998 he was also Ricercatore
in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
at the University of Udine - Italy. He received his
D.Ing. degree (highest honors) from the University of
Padova- Italy in 1992.
His general research interests are in Computer Vision
and Nonlinear Estimation and Control Theory. In particular,
he is interested in ways for computers to use sensory
information (e.g. vision, sound, touch) to interact
with humans and the environment.
Dr. Soatto is the recipient of the David Marr Prize
(with Y. Ma, J. Kosecka and S. Sastry of U.C. Berkeley)
for work on Euclidean reconstruction and reprojection
up to subgroups. He also received the Siemens Prize
with the Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Computer
Society for his work on optimal structure from motion
(with R. Brockett of Harvard). He received the National
Science Foundation Career Award and the Okawa Foundation
Grant.
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Mani Srivastava
Mani Srivastava received both the M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. His M.S. project
was on automatic compilation of CMOS bit-slice datapaths
as part of the Lager silicon compiler for DSP VLSI,
while his Ph.D. dissertation was on hardware-software
rapid prototyping and co-design for embedded DSP and
control applications. Prior to joining the UCLA Electrical
Engineering Department faculty in 1996, Dr. Srivastava
worked on mobile and wireless networking at the Networked
Computing Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs
in Murray Hill, NJ (now Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs
Innovations).
Prof. Srivastava holds five patents for: the method
for call establishment and rerouting in mobile computing
networks; medium access control and air interface subsystems
for an indoor wireless ATM network; wireless adapter
architecture for mobile computing; scheduling in wireless
access protocols based on battery power level; and mobile
host roaming in ATM networks. He has published extensively
on wireless networking, low-power systems, and embedded
system design tools. He is a member of the IEEE and
of the ACM.
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Yu-Chong Tai
Yu-Chong Tai's research interests include
MEMS technology, microsensors, microactuators, microstructure,
MEMS systems, and MEMS science. Successfully developed
MEMS devices in his lab include pressure sensors,
shear-stress sensors, hot-wire anemometers, magnetic
actuators, microphones, microvalves, micromotors,
and so on. System-level MEMS research projects include
integrated M3 (microelectronics + microsensors + microactuators)
drag-reduction smart surface, flexible smart skin
for the control unmanned aerial vehicles, and micro
fluid delivery systems. He is also interested in MEMS
sciences such as MEMS material (mechanical and thermal)
properties, micro fluid mechanics, and micro/nano
processing issues.
Yu-Chong Tai is the director of the
Caltech Micromachining Laboratory, which is a complete
micromachining facility including a clean-room processing
lab, a computer lab, and a measurement/testing lab.
The facility is currently sponsoring more than 20
researchers (14 Ph.D. students among them) for micromachining.
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John Wallace
Dr. John Wallace received both the M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1984 and 1989, respectively. He has been
the recipient of several honors and awards, including:
Outstanding Senior in Civil Engineering, University
of Vermont, 1982; Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award,
Clarkson University, 1991; Favorite Professor Award,
UCLA Student Chapter of ASCE, 1999, 2002; Most Influential
Professor, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, UCLA, 2000;
and Fellow, American Concrete Institute, 2000.
Dr. Wallace's research interests lie
in the area of earthquake engineering with a focus
on the performance and behavior of reinforced concrete
structures. Current research topics include the evaluation
of displacement-based design techniques for reinforced
concrete structural walls, anchorage of steel reinforcement
to concrete, use of high performance concrete and
composite systems in seismic regions, and evaluation
of near field ground motions on structural systems.
Studies involve conceptual and theoretical modeling,
numerical simulation and laboratory testing. The laboratory
studies include large-scale tests on reinforced concrete
and steel-reinfoced concrete structural walls, structural
walls with openings, and beam-column joints. The primary
objectives of these studies are to improve our understanding
of buildings and bridge behavior in strong earthquakes
such that comprehensive evaluation and design recommendations
are available to structural engineers.
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Daniel Whang
Dr. Daniel Whang received his Ph.D.
degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
His B.S. and M.S. degress are from Berkeley. Dr. Whang's
research interests are primarily geotechnical earthquake
engineering with a focus on the seismic performance
of structural fill soils. Current research projects
include investigating the seismic compression behavior
of compacted soils, examining the performance of full-scale
drilled shafts under cyclic lateral loading, and the
development of a mobile field laboratory for the NEES
project. He also has extensive experience in geotechnical
laboratory testing including developing the UCLA bi-directional
cyclic simple shear apparatus.
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Kung Yao
Kung Yao received the B.S.E. (Highest
Honors), M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering
-- all from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. During
the summers, he has worked at the Princeton-Penn Accelerator,
the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Bell Telephone
Lab in Murray Hill, N.J. He was a NAS-NRC Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
Presently, he is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering
Department at UCLA. In 1969, he was a Visiting Assistant
Prof. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1973-74, he was a Visiting Associate Prof. at the
Eindhoven Technical University. In 1985-1988, he served
as an Assistant Dean of the School of Engineering
and Applied Science at UCLA.
Dr. Yao received the IEEE Signal Processing
Society's 1993 Senior Award in VLSI Signal Processing.
He was the co-editor of a two volume series of an
IEEE Reprint Book on "High Performance VLSI Signal
Processing," IEEE Press, 1997. He is also the
co-author of the book, "Processing and Algorithms
in Communication and Radar Systems", under preparation.
He has published over 250 journal and conference papers.
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