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Newest building on campus is designed from the ground up to foster collaboration. Read More Photo: Steve Zylius / UCI

Chair's Message Greetings, This has been an unprecedented academic year, which has both challenged and proved the resilience and adaptability of our academic community. With most of the campus employees now vaccinated, we are finally starting to see signs of a return to normalcy, including the plan for in-person teaching in the fall.  Below, we share with you some recent highlights and news. We are especially thrilled to welcome Professor Magnus Egerstedt as incoming dean of the Samueli School of Engineering and new faculty member of the EECS department. The much-anticipated Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) just opened and will host collaborations between engineering, information and computer sciences, physical sciences and medicine. Our faculty and students continue to pursue research discoveries and broader impact activities. Enjoy the summer, and I look forward to seeing you, hopefully in person, soon.

Athina Markopoulou Professor, Chancellor’s Fellow and Chair Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science University of California, Irvine

Robotics Research Leader Magnus Egerstedt Named Dean of UCI Engineering School, Joins EECS Faculty Highly respected robotics and control systems researcher Magnus Egerstedt will become the new dean of the Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine, following a nationwide search. Read More

Pramod Khargonekar Named to California Council on Science and Technology Board UCI Vice Chancellor of Research and Distinguished Professor Pramod Khargonekar is among five eminent leaders in science, engineering, policy and philanthropy named to the California Council on Science and Technology’s board of directors. Read More

EECS Students Shine in ACM SIGBED Student Research Competition Two UC Irvine electrical engineering and computer science students -- Armand Ahadi-Sarkari and Xiaowu Sun – won awards at the Association for Computing Machinery SIGBED Student Research Competition (SRC) held May 21, 2021. Read More

CAREER Award Goes to Li Samueli School electrical engineering and computer science Assistant Professor Zhou Li has won a five-year, $527,416 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Computer and Network Systems. Read More

IEEE Recognizes Jafarkhani with 2020 Award The Samueli School’s Hamid Jafarkhani has received the 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award. Read More

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Education Award Goes to Heydari Payam Heydari, UC Irvine professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has received the 2021 Innovative Education Award from the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. Read More

IEEE Honors Lee with Technical Field Award Chin C. Lee, who retired in July after 40 years on the UC Irvine electrical engineering and computer science faculty, has received the 2021 IEEE Electronics Packaging Award for meritorious contributions to the advancement of components, electronic packaging or manufacturing technologies. Read More

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