Past Awardees

The highest honor bestowed at the event is the Alumnus/Alumna of the Year. Established in 1965, this award honors the superior achievements of UCLA engineering alumni in their chosen fields of endeavor. Each recipient has a record of distinguished career accomplishments, complemented by a history of exceptional contributions to the engineering profession. Without exception, awardees have established new standards of excellence to which others in their fields may aspire.

Alumnus/Alumnae of the Year

2023 Timothy Frei ’85, MS ’87, CERT ’01
2021 Tyson Tuttle MS ’92
2020 Freeman Shen MS ’94
2019 Thomas Kennedy PhD ’84
2018 Reza Rofougaran ’86, MS ’88, PhD ’98
2017 Joanne Maguire, MS ’78
2016 Robert Englekirk, MS ’65, PhD ’70
2014 B. John Garrick, MS ’62, PhD ’68
2013 David Mong ’84
2012 Aaron S. Cohen ’58
2011 Ernst Volgenau PhD ’66
2010 Josephine Cheng ’75, MS ’77
2009 Paul Baran MS ’59
2008 Armond Hairapetian ’87, MS ’88, PhD ’93
2006 Linda Katehi MS ’81, PhD ’84
2005 Henry T. Nicholas, III ’82, MS ’85, PhD ’98
2004 Asad M. Madni ’69, MS ’72
2003 Vint Cerf MS ’70, PhD ’72
2002 Dwight Streit MS ’83, PhD ’86
2000 Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76, PhD ’80
1997 Jack S. Gordon ME ’76
1996 Ronald D. Sugar ’68, MS ’69, PhD ’71
1995 Robert F. Graham ’55
1993 Richard S. Simonsen ’55
1992 Peter Staudhammer ’55, MS ’56, PhD ’57
1991 John F. Gifford ’63
1990 Gerald A. Johnston ’56, MS ’72
1989 James L. Easton ’59
1987 Edsel D. Dunford ME ’73
1986 Eugene C. Gritton ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’67
1985 John F. Cashen MS ’67, PhD ’71
1984 Edward P. Smith ’57
1983 Russell R. O’Neill PhD ’56
1982 Ben Rich MS ’50
1981 Brien D. Ward PhD ’67
1980 Sam F. Iacobellis MS ’63
1979 Gary E. MacDougal ’58
1978 John B. Slaughter MS ’61
1977 Robert N. Parker ’54, MS ’56, CERT ’70
1976 Leonard F. Buchanan ’56, MS ’60, PhD ’68
1975 Jacob B. Frankel PhD ’51
1974 Paul D. Castenholz’49, MS ’58
1973 Norman E. Friedmann ’50, MS ’52, PhD ’57
1972 Myron Tribus PhD ’49
1969 Robert Bromberg PhD ’51
1967 Ralph E. Crump ’50
1966 Raymond M. Hill ’55
1965 Trude C. Taylor ’49

 

Lifetime Contribution Award

2023 Eldon Knuth
2021 Enrique “Rick” Ainsworth
2020 William Goddard ’60
2019 Oscar Stafsudd ’59, MS ’61, PhD ’67
2018 Leslie Lackman
2017 Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61
2016 Leonard Kleinrock
2014 Chand Viswanathan ‘Ms 59, PhD ’64
2013 Edward K. Rice
2012 Simon Ramo
2011 Alfred E. Mann ’49 (Physics)2011
2010 Asad Madni ’69, MS ‘72
2008 Novak Zuber ’51, MS ’54, PhD ’59
2006 Gerald Estrin
2004 H. J. Orchard
2003 William Van Vorst PhD ’53

 

Professional Achievement

2023 Alison Brown PhD ’85
2021 Lisa D. Cagnolatti ’83
2020 Jonathan Arenberg ’83, MS ’85, PhD ’87
2019 Mukund Padmanabhan MS ’89, PhD ’92
2018 Leslie Momoda ’85, MS ’87, PhD ’90
2017 Portonovo Ayyaswamy PhD ’71
2016 Dan Goebel ’77, MS ’78, PhD ’81
2014 Heidi Shyu MS ’81, Eng ’82
2013 Charles Reames MS ’80, PhD ’85
2012 Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61
2011 Shrikanth Narayanan MS ’90, ENG ’92, PhD ’95
2010 Joanne Maguire MS ’78
2009 William J. Lloyd ’62, PhD ’77
2008 Kinam Kim PhD ’94
2007 Josephine Cheng ’75 (Math-Computer Science), MS ’77
2006 Allen Adham ’90
2006 Michael Morhaime ’90
2006 Frank Pearce ’90
2005 Jeff Lawrence ’79
2004 Thomas Sabol MS ’82, ENG ’84, PhD ’85

 

Achievement in Academia

2013 Yannis Phillis MS ’78, PhD ’80
2010 Augustine Esogbue ’64
2009 Mark Kushner ’76
2008 David Patterson ’69 (Mathematics), MS ’70, PhD ’76
2007 John Junkins MS ’67, PhD ’69
2006 James Plummer ’66
2005 George Bekey ’50, MS ’52, PhD ’62

 

Rising Professional Achievement Award

2023 Yu Chen PhD ’14
2021  Jamal Madni MS ’08, M.S. ’12
2020 Alex Capecelatro ’10
2019 Adrian Tang PhD ’12
2018 Zhiru Zhang MS ’03, PhD ’07
2017 Emily Guglielmo ’03
2010 Jun-Hong Cui PhD ’03
2009 Zhigang David Pan MS ’94 (Atmospheric Sciences), MS ’98, PhD ’00
2008 Dean Ho ’01 (Physiological Sciences), MS ’03, PhD ’05
2007 Tzung John Hsiai PhD ’01
2006 Sharon Vuong ’01
2005 Ani Garabedian ’99
2004 Vincent Gau MS ’98, PhD ’01

 

Young Alumni Service

2013 Aditi Gobburu ’07, MS ’08
2012 Patrick Ho ’05, MS ’06

 

Alumni Service

2023 Marianne So, PE, ’07, MBA ’17
2021 Coretta Harris ’83
2011 Robert E. Green ’72, JD ’75
2010 Gregory Glenn ’03, MS ’06
2008 Carey Nachenberg ’95, MS ’95
2005 Aaron Cohen ’58
2004 William Goodin MS ’71, PhD ’75, ME ’82
2003 Richard Gay ’73, MS ’73, PhD ’76
2002 Edward Rice

 

Eon Instrumentation Inc. Excellence in Teaching Award

2023 Jens Palsberg

 

Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award

2021 Veronica Santos
2020 Robert Candler
2019 Jennifer Jay
2018 Adnan Darwiche
2017 Daniel T. Kamei
2016 Amit Sahai
2014 Izhak Rubin
2013 Alan N. Willson, Jr.
2012 Paul R. Eggert MS ’77, PhD ’80
2011 Oscar Stafsudd ’59, MS ’61, PhD ’67 (Physics)
2011 Mani Srivastava
2010 Yahya Rahmat-Samii
2009 Milos Ercegovac
2008 David Smallberg MS ’78
2007 Asad Abidi
2006 Behzad Razavi
2005 Richard Korf
2004 Joseph DiStefano, III ’64, PhD ’66

 

Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award

2023 Carissa Eisler ’10
2021 Aaron Meyer ’09
2020 Stephanie Seidlits
2019 Sriram Sankararaman
2018 Yvonne Chen
2017 Jonathan B. Hopkins
2016 Todd Millstein
2014 Alexander Sherstov
2013 Lara Dolecek
2013 Shaily Mahendra
2012 Robert N. Candler
2011 Chi On Chui
2010 Richard Wirz
2009 Jian Zhang
2008 Terri Hogue
2008 Gerassimos (Makis) Orkoulas
2007 Daniel Kamei
2006 John Cho
2005 Lei He
2004 Glenn Reinman

 

Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student

2023 Shaun Tan PhD ’22
2021 Ahmed Alaa Ibrahim PhD ’19
2020 Parinaz Abiri MS ’16, PhD ’19, MD ’21
2019 Ernest Lee ’18, MD ’20
2018 Helen Durand ’11, MS ’14, PhD ’17
2017 Haik Kalantarian MS ’13 PhD ’16
2016 Chenfanfu Jiang MS ’12, PhD ’15
2014 Elias Barienboim PhD ’14
2013 Navid Amini MS ’10, PhD ’12
2012 Mahsan Rofouei MS ’09, PhD ’12
2011 Vladimir Braverman MS ’09, PhD ’11
2011 SJ Claire Hur ’05, MS ’07, PhD ’11
2010 Barton Forman PhD ’10
2010 Thammanit Pipatsrisawat MS ’07, PhD ’10
2009 Ricardo Oliveira MS ’05, PhD ‘09
2008 Shenghan Peter Li PhD ’08
2008 Foad Dabiri MS ’05, PhD ’08
2007 Ricky Tseng PhD ’07
2006 Alireza Mehrnia PhD ’06
2005 Vijay Raghunathan MS ’02, PhD ’06
2004 Nael El-Farra ’98, PhD ’04
2003 Jeremy Elson PhD ’03
2003 Arthur Torosyan MS ’01, PhD ’03

 

Edward K. Rice Outstanding Master’s Student

2023 Xingyu “Bruce” Liu MS ’22
2021 Camille H. Le ’18, MS ’19
2020 Faisal Alshafei MS ’18
2019 Zhuyun (Maggie) Xiao MS ’17, PhD ’19
2018 Ali Hatamizadeh MS ’17
2017 Allison Yip ’14, MS ’16
2016 Jean Paul Santos MS ’15
2014 Helen Durand ’11, MS ’14
2013 Frederic Sala MS ’13
2012 Joshua Kovitz MS ’12
2011 Jamal A. Madni MS ’08, MS ’11
2010 Vaibhav Karkare MS ’09
2010 Julia Nichols MS ’09
2009 Wonjin Brian Ho ’08, MS ’09
2008 John Hoang ’04, MS ’08, PhD ‘11
2007 Amarjeet Singh MS ’07, PhD ‘09
2006 Christine M. Lee ’05, MS ’06, PhD ‘10
2005 Philip Wegge ’04, MS ’05
2004 Ani Nahapetian ’02, MS ’04, PhD ‘07
2002 Andy Fong ’99, MS ’02

 

Edward K. Rice Outstanding Bachelor’s Student

2023 Emily Dunn ’22 & Griffith Hughes ’22
2021 Richa Ghosh ’20
2020 Kai Yang ’18, MS ’20
2019 Alice Tang ’18
2018 Iris Cong ’17
2017 Michael Wu ’16
2016 Kathryn Dern ’15
2014 Shannon Wongvibulsin ’14
2013 Jaideep Dudani ’13
2013 Sarah Miller ’13
2012 Armin Arshi ’12
2011 Scott M. Davidson ‘11
2011 Shivani Dharmaraja ’11
2010 Chandni Dhanjal ’10
2010 Byron Kwan ’10
2009 Nicholas Kusnezov ’09
2009 Joy Park ’09
2008 Frank Kuo ’08
2007 Andre Encarnacao ’07
2006 Baley Fong ’06
2005 Kristina Cydzik ‘05, MS ’06
2004 Scott M. Wright ’04
2003 Emily Guglielmo ’03
2003 Robert Lobbia ’03
2002 Raymond Pon ’01, MS ’03, PhD ’08

 

V.M. Watanabe Excellence in Research Award

2023  Jun Chen
2021  Yousef Bozorgnia
2020 Yongjie Hu
2018 Jonathan Hopkins
2017 Mona Jarrahi

 

University Service Award

2023 Eric Hoek MS ’96
2021 Jane P. Chang
2020 Adrienne Lavine
2019 Ann Karagozian ’78
2018 Jia-Ming Liu
2017 Ajit Mal