Henry Samueli Endowed Fellowship
2023-2024
Recipient | Department | Research Project Title | Faculty Advisor |
Amiri, Mahsa | MMT | TBD | Lorenzo Valdevit |
Bai, Xuesong | EECS | Fuzzing on network protocols | Zhou Li |
Ben Itzhak, Gal | EECS | Optimizations for Wave-Controlled Metasurface-Based Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces | Ender Ayanoglu |
Cosenza, Alessio | CBE | TBD | Plamen Atanassov |
Guan, Kevin Wei Jie | EECS | Prompt-based Mixed-Signal Chip Co-Design | Fadi Kurdahi / Camilo Velez Cuervo |
Guler, Berkay | MMT | Machine Learning for Wireless Communication Networks | Hamid Jafarkhani |
Hakimi, Amin | EECS | Generation a terahertz (THz) laser using low-symmetry 2D materials, especially materials with Berry curvature dipole | Filippo Capolino |
Keskin, Deniz | MMT | TBD | Alon Gorodetsky |
Li, Jiaji | MMT | TBD | John Michael McCarthy |
Li, Zitong | EECS | Domain Decomposition Methods for Neural PDE Solvers | Aparna Chandramowlishwaran |
Monteith, Elizabeth | CBE | TBD | TBD |
Odema, Mohanad | EECS | HW/SW Co-design Methodologies for Efficient AI Systems and Applications | Mohammad Al Faruque |
Sun, Danyu | EECS | PrivNetSyn: Synthesizing Network Traces under Differential Privacy | Zhou Li |
Tian, Hongzheng | EECS | TBD | Sitao Huang |
Yao, Vanessa | EECS | Making a graphene laser at Tera-Hertz frequencies and wave-controlled RIS | Filippo Capolino |
2022-2023
Recipient | Department | Research Project Title | Faculty Advisor |
Bajpai, Sakshi | MSE | Influence of Processing Phenomena on the Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Behavior of Complex Concentrated Alloys | Diran Apelian and Enrique Lavernia |
Biswas, Piyashi | BME | Novel assessment models for stroke rehabilitation | Zoran Nenadic |
Desai, Ajinkya | CEE | Turbulent Fluid Dynamics of Wildland Fires | Tirtha Banerjee |
Duan, Yu | NETSYS | TBD | N/A |
Fatapour, Yasaman | BME | Development of novel framework for individualized risk estimate model for cancer diagnosis and recurrence | Jim Brody |
Feeney, Arthur | EECS | TBD | Aparna Chandramowlishwaran |
Foong, Matthew | MSE | Exploring Novel Coatings and Surface Engineering Strategies for Protecting Refractory Alloys from High-Temperature Oxidation | Daniel Mumm |
Hakimi, Amin | EECS | TBD | Filippo Capolino |
Han, Ziwei | CEE | TBD | Adeyemi Adeleye |
Hasan, MD Abeed | EECS | TBD | N/A |
Hatch, Christopher | BME | Cellular crosstalk/signaling conditions endothelial cells to develop organ-specific vasculature in microphysiological systems of health and disease |
Christopher Hughes |
Lee, Rebecca | BME | Novel nanoparticle delivery of targeted cancer drugs | Young Jik Kwon |
Luo, Shangbang | BME | Optimizing the laser-tissue interaction with femtosecond (FS) laser technology for the treatment of glaucoma | Tibor Juhasz |
Namasivayam, Aarthi | BME | Using miniaturized patient-derived organoids for drug screening for personalized medicine, with a focus on pancreatic cancer treatment | Elliot Hui |
Nikolian, Paul Garabet | EECS | TBD | Fadi Kurdahi |
omenzadeh, Melika | EECS | TBD | Maxim Shcherbakov |
Schmidt, Andrew | BME | Developing a novel immuno-heart chip to enhance fundamental understanding of cardiomyocyte-macrophage reciprocal interactions | Anna Grosberg |
Shakibmanesh, Mahtab | EECS | TBD | Rahim Esfandyarpour |
Tavares Negrete, Jorge Alfonso | BME | Utilizing 3D bioprinting to improve in-vitro drug testing and disease modeling | Rahim Esfandyarpour |
Vendrell Gallart, Joan | MAE | TBD | Solmaz Kia |
2021-2022
Recipient | Department | Research Project Title | Faculty Advisor |
Shingirirai Chakoma | EECS | Wearable Devices | Rahim Esfandyarpour |
Minh-Anh Dinh | CBE | TBD | TBD |
Ian Geiger | MMT | TBD | Tim Rupert |
Rachid Karami | EECS | TBD | Fadi Kurdahi |
Jiaji Li | MMT | TBD | Michael McCarthy |
Hossein Maleki | EECS | Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) in 5G | Hamid Jafarkhani |
Wylie Simpson | MMT | TBD | James Earthman |
Yashuo Wu | EECS | Fairness in Traffic Network | Yanning Shen |
Mengwei Yang | EECS | TBD | Athina Markopoulou |
Qian Yi | MMT | TBD | Rahim Esfandyarpour |
Tuo Zhou | MMT | Microfabricated Platforms for Microassembly of Inorganic/Organic/Biological System | Lawrence Kulinsky & Lorenzo Valdevit |
2020-2021
Recipient | Department | Research Project Title | Faculty Advisor |
Ceren Babayigit | EECS | LiNbO3-based Synaptic Sensors | Ozdal Boyraz |
Youngeun Bae | CEE | Adoption and Demand Models of Alternative Fuels in Heavy-duty Vehicle Fleets in California | Stephen Ritchie |
Jiahui Cao | MAE | Thermal Characterization of Metal Silicide Nanostructures for Thermoelectric Applications | Jaeho Lee |
Noelia Civico Dorado | EECS | Application of Neural Networks for Medical Imaging | Nader Bagherzadeh |
Jawad Fayaz | CEE | Statistical Frameworks for Improved Seismic Demand Analysis of Bridge Structures | Farzin Zareian |
Laurielyse Girod-Williams | EECS | Active Cell Balancing Circuit for Lithium-Ion Battery Management System for Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles | Keyue Smedley |
Wesley Groves | BME | Understanding and Building the Interface Between Synthetic Polymers and Living Cells; Engineering 3D-Printable Living Composite Materials | Seunghyun Sim |
Salla Kim | BME | Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Ventricular Function with the End Goal of Improving Cardiovascular Health | Naomi Chesler |
Oyku Deniz Kose | EECS | Machine Learning Algorithms on Graphs | Yanning Shen |
Chengheng Lyu | EECS | Semantic Visual Recognition | Phil Sheu |
Elliott Makhani | MSE | Nanoparticle Adhesion Dynamics Simulation | Jered Haun |
Naomy Marufo | MSE | Electronic Properties of Conductive Peptide Nanowires | Allon Hochbaum |
Sangjun Noh | EECS | Two Electrode Biosensor, 3D Printable Display for Sensors | Rahim Esfandyar-Pour |
Mohammed Ombadi | CEE | Applications of Causal Inference, Graph Theory and Data Mining in Hydro-Meteorological Systems | Soroosh Sorooshian |
Charles Owens | MAE | Investigating Thermal Transport Phenomena in 3D Manufactured Lattice Structures (Microlattices) | Jaeho Lee |
Omobayo Salawu | CEE | Advanced Materials for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants from Water | Adeyemi Adeleye |
Mojtaba Taherisadr | EECS | Designing Human-in-the-Loop Context-Aware IoT Systems with Focus on Performance, Privacy, Reliability, and Adaptability | Salma Elmalaki |
Isaac Valdez | MSE | Additive Manufacturing of High Entropy Metals and Studying Defects in Additively Manufactured Components | TBD |
Jiaxuan Xie | EECS | Explanations for the Graph Neural Networks | Yanning Shen |
Siavash Zare | CEE | Carbon Sequestration in Divalent Metal Silicates | Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi |
2019-2020
Recipient | Department | Research Project Title | Faculty Advisor |
Jawad Fayaz | CEE | Statistical Frameworks for Improved Seismic Demand Analysis of Bridge Structures | Farzin Zareian |
Irene Martinez Josemaria | CEE | Modeling and Mitigation of Traffic Congestion in the Era of Autonomous, Connected and Shared Mobility | Wenlong Jin |
Sean Aaron Blofeld Perea | CBE | TBD | TBD |
Enya Li | CBE | Optimal Delivery Strategy for Cancer Vaccines | Szu Wang |
Mikhail Mikhailovich Savastianov | EECS | Power electronics, battery chargers, low voltage direct current distribution systems | Keyue Smedley |
Yaoyu Cao | EECS | mmWave Integrated Circuit and System | Payam Heydari |
Md Omar Faruk | EECS | Frozen Mode Regime for Light Amplification and Generation | Ozdal Boyraz |
Ehsan Hafezi Asl | EECS | Microwave Circuits and Optical Devices Based on Exceptional Points of Degeneracy | Filippo Capolino |
2018-2019
Recipient | Department | Research Project Title | Faculty Advisor |
Benjamin Brown | EECS | N/A | Keyue Smedley |
Kazi Dia | EECS | High Frequency Power Conversion For Renewable Energy And Industry Applications | Keyue Smedley |
Nabil Khalifa | MAE | Unsteady Aerodynamics | Haithem Taha |
Alejandro Lavernia | MAE | Distributed Power and Cooling for Data Centers by Integrated Fuel Cell Technologies | Jack Brouwer |
Weiyu Luo | EECS | Research Title is Model Checking and Testing C/C++11 Concurrent Data Structures | Brian Demsky |
Antonios Mamalakis | CEE | Hydroclimatic change: New modes of climate variability and adaptive modeling of non stationary signals | Efi Foufoula-Georgiou |
Robert Marosi | EECS | Electromagnetic Phenomena and High-Powered Microwave Devices | Filippo Capolino |
Ali Morshedifard | CEE | Breaking time and length scale barriers in modeling cementitiors materials | Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi |
Ahamed Nahian | EECS | Model Checking and Testing Concurrent Data Structures | Brian Demsky |
Emily Duong | ChEMS | Nanoprecipitation and co-assembly of block copolymer-drug composites | Joe Patterson |
Yutian Ren | EECS | Data-enabled manufacturing, data engineering, contextual sensor system | Guann-Pyng Li |
2017-2018
Recipient | Department | Research Project Title | Faculty Advisor |
Susana Anacleto Lupianez | CEE | Modelization of RC special moment frame beams with web openings | Anne Lemnitzer |
Evita Zoi Bakopoulou | NTWS | Learning techniques for mobile data privacy | Athina Markoupoulou |
Danielle Bever | ChEMS | Engineering Kluyveromyces marxianus for Polyketide Synthesis from Alternative Carbon Sources | Amir AghaKouchak |
Felicia Chiang | CEE | Underpinnings of the Observed Amplified Warming of Droughts | Amir AghaKouchak |
Jielin Guo | MMT | Materials for Optoelectronic Device Packaging and Manufacturing | Frank Shi |
Alireza Javani | EECS | Age of Information in a Network with Parallel Servers | Zhiying Wang |
Tarek Mealy | EECS | Dispersion Engineering of Electromagnetic Structures and Exceptional Points of Degeneracy | Filippo Capolino |
Emily Parker | CEE | Improving Biofilter Modeling and Design for Stormwater Pollutant Removal | Stanley Grant |
Emma Reid | CEE | Physical Processes Driving Environmental Gradients on Coral Reef Ecosystems | Kristen Davis |
M Mahmudul Hasan Sajeeb | EECS | Optical and electrical characterization of bio-inspired hierarchical nanomaterials | Peter Tseng |
Abid Anjum Sifat | EECS | Optical nanoantenna and fluroscent microscopy of magnetic dipole transition allowed novel rare earth material Eu3+ for magnetic storage application | Filippo Capolino |
Syed Mohammad Ashab Uddin | EECS | Imaging Molecular Interactions Using Stimulated Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy | H. Kumar Wickramsinghe |
Jiaqi Wu | MMT | Growth and Characterization of Silver Solid Solution Phase with Zinc | Chin Lee |
2016-2017
Recipient | Department | Research Project Title | Faculty Advisor |
Hazma Atcha | BME | Regulation of Macrophage Form and Function by Cyclic Mechanical Stretch | Wendy Liu |
Matthew Brand | CEE | Co-development of Modeling Tools to Manage Sediment for Sustainable and Resilient Coastal Lowland Habitat in Southern California | Brett Sanders |
Derosh George | MAE | Development of Patterned of Micro/nanoparticle for Biomedical Applications | Marc Madou |
Trevor Jones | CEE | Mineral Precipitation in Fractures: The Role of Local Heterogeneity on Fracture-scale Reactive Transport Processes | Russ Detwiler |
Hamidreza Kazemi Varnamkhasti | EECS | Breaking Physical Bound on Absorption Using Time Variant Systems | Filippo Capolino |
Lohrasb Keykhosropour | CEE | Experimental and Numerical Studies of Seismic Soil Pressures on Non-rigid Subsurface Structures | Anne Lemnitzer |
Alexandre Martinez | CEE | Water-Energy-Food Nexus | Amir AghaKouchak |
Ricardo Medina | CEE | Experimental Investigation of Multi-component Proppant Suspensions Flowing and Settling Inside Transparent Fractures | Russ Detwiler |
Navid Rezazadeh | MAE | Privacy Preservation in Networked Systems | Solmaz Kia |
Colin Sledge | MAE | TBD | Haithem Taha |
Fuqiang Wan | EECS | mm-Wave Integrated Circuits Design | Payam Heydari |
Yingjie Yang | ChEMS | Flash Sintering of Multiphase Ceramics | Martha Mecartney |
Jingyi Zeng | MAE | Aerodynamic Optimization of Blade Design for Multiple Stage Compressors | Feng Liu |
2015-2016
Recipient | Department | Research Project Title | Faculty Advisor |
Will Black | ChEMS | Development of Novel Systems for Renewed Biofuels Production in Escherichia Coli | Han Li |
Blerim Cici | NTWS | Mobile Data Analysis for Smart City Applications | Athina Markoupoulou |
Mahsa Darvishzadeh Varcheie | EECS | Optical Nanoantennas for Sensors, Microscopy, and Spectroscopy | Filippo Capolino |
Mohammed El Neanaei Fouda | EECS | Resistive Crossbar Arrays in Neuromorphic and Memory Applications | Ahmed Eltawil |
Sina Faezi | EECS | Data-Driven Modeling for Cyber-Physical Systems | Mohammed Al Faruque |
Shao-Wei Fu | MMT | Solid-state Reaction of Silver and Aluminum and Its Applications to Electronic Packaging | Chin Lee |
Xing Hao | EECS | Image Recognition with Dynamic Deep Neural Networks | Phillip Sheu |
Hamidreza Kazemi Varnamkhasti | EECS | Breaking Physical Bound on Absorption Using Time Variant Systems | Filippo Capolino |
Mao-Cheng Lee | EECS | Low Power Transceiver Design for Brain-computer-interface Applications | Payam Heydari |
Kasra Moazzemi | EECS | Heterogeneous Architectures and Memories: Exploration of Heterogeneity in Emerging Architectures | Nikil Dutt |
Hamid Nejatollahi | EECS | Programmable Architecture for Post Quantum Cryptography Algorithms | Nikil Dutt |
Shah Mohammed Rahman | EECS | Real-Time Optical Tweezing | Ozdal Boyraz |
Mohsen Rajaei | EECS | Photo-induced Force Microscopy at Mid-IR Chirality at Nanoscale | Kumar Wickramasinghe |
Athma Madapusi Ram | EECS | TBD | TBD |
Balint Tillman | NTWS | Graph Construction Using the DK-Series Framework | Athina Markoupoulou |
Ecehan Uludag | EECS | Constant-Envelope OFDM and Constant-Envelope SC-FDMA | Ender Ayanoglu |
Huan Wang | EECS | Integrated Circuits and Systems for High-Speed Wireless Communications | Payam Heydari |
Jiaqi Wu | MMT | Growth and Characterization of Silver Solid Solution Phase with Zinc | Chin Lee |