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AROUND THE SCHOOL

Shannon Symposium 3

A Who’s Who of more than 15 leadingthinkers and practitioners set the agendafor the next generation of information theoryadvances.

FALL 2001

Jacobs School of Engineering

RESEARCH

THE JACOBS SCHOOL HAS LAUNCHED a new cen-ter to foster the transition of UCSD research from thelaboratory to the marketplace, and to educate studentsabout the process of entrepreneurism. The William J.von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and TechnologyAdvancement is funded through a $10 million gift fromthe William J. von Liebig Foundation of Naples, Fla.

Says Jacobs School Dean Robert Conn: “The Founda-tion has helped us shape a vision for a program that I'mcertain will be a national model for how schools of engi-neering across the country ensure that discoveries get trans-ferred for the benefit of society.”

“There is a great deal of harmony between what Wil-liam von Liebig cared deeply about and the goals of thenew Center,” said Jean Goggins, Executive Director ofThe William J. von Liebig Foundation. “His passionwas facilitating the transfer of technology from the labo-ratory bench into the hands of surgeons in order to make

it easier for physicians to improve their patients’ lives.He had a real enthusiasm for working with and encour-aging others who shared his dreams.”

Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien chairs the Aca-demic Advisory Committee for the Center. Joseph Bearhas been named Acting Executive Director and AbigailBarrow, former Director of Programs with UCSD CON-NECT, has been named the von Liebig Center's Manag-ing Director.

“Our new center will provide a perfect complement tothe services provided by CONNECT and the Office ofTechnology Transfer and Intellectual Property Services,”said Barrow. “Taken together, we will now be able tooffer more complete assistance to UCSD inventors, fromidentifying the commercial potential of a great idea totaking the steps necessary to get that idea into the privatesector for the public benefit.”

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“Von Liebig’spassion wasfacilitating thetransfer oftechnology fromthe laboratorybench into thehands ofsurgeons...”

- Jean Goggins, ExecutiveDirector of The William J.von Liebig Foundation

New Center Fosters Translation of UCSD Research to the Marketplace

TeraGrid 4

San Diego Supercomputer Center partici-pates in $53 million project to deploy a dis-tributed terascale network.

15-Year-Old Freshman 7

Ezekiel Bhasker uses technology tobring students closer together.

STUDENTS

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Dean’s Column

National Research Priorities ShapeParadigm for InnovationSchool Administration

Dean Robert W. ConnAssociate Dean

for Academic Affairs Anthony SebaldAssociate Dean

for Research Enrique LucoAssistant Dean for

Administration & Finance Paul CroftExecutive Director of

External Relations MaryAnn F. Stewart

Council of Advisorsto the Dean

Robert Akins ’74 ’83 Chairman & CEO, Cymer, Inc.Daniel L. Alspach President & CEO, Orincon Corp.

Robert E. Englekirk President, Englekirk PartnersHakan Eriksson VP & GM, Research, EricssonIrwin M. Jacobs Chairman & CEO, QUALCOMM, Inc.Paul E. Jacobs Sr. Vice Pres., QUALCOMM, Inc

Brian A. Kenner ’89 Pres. & CEO, LearningFramework

Richard Kornfeld ’82David E. Lederman President & CEO, Abiomed

Scott McClendon Chairman, Overland Data, Inc.Tina S. Nova President & CEO, Genoptix

William A. Owens Vice Chairman, TeledesicGregory M. Papadopoulos CTO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

David M. Rickey President & CEO, AMCCAndrew E. Senyei, M.D. General Partner,

Enterprise PartnersRonald R. Taylor Special Partner,

Enterprise PartnersJohn H. Warner Sr. Vice President,

Systems Integration, SAICIsaac Willis, M.D.

Corporate Affiliates ProgramExecutive Board

ChairAlan Chow NCR CorporationVice-Chair

Eric Lasley BAE SystemsMichelle Mazzoni ’89 Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp.

Candace Kilburn AMCCJeffrey W. Young ATA Engineering

Richard Goldberg AT&TRick Stellwagen bex Research

Chris Haudenschild CliniComp, IntlRon Chaffee Conexant Systems

Dick Joy ConsultantWallace Breitman Cymer, Inc.

Patrik Lundqvist Ericsson WirelessCommunications, Inc.

Stephen Flaim Galileo Laboratories, Inc.John Rawls General Atomics

Bill Higley Hewlett Packard CompanyAlan Camaisa High Technology Solutions

Richard Rowher HNC Software, Inc.Binoy Rosario Hughes Network Systems

A. Currie Munce, Jr. ’79 IBM Corp.Rick LaFaivre IdeaEdge

Robert Miller Information Systems LabsMichael Jayne Intersil Corporation

Robert Whisler Kyocera America, Inc.Barbara Campbell Lawrence Livermore

National LabHarper J. Whitehouse Linear Measurements, Inc.

Mark Canales Lion BioscienceShuzo Kato Mitsubishi Wireless

Communications, Inc.John Gelm Nokia Mobile Phones

Daniel Alspach ’70 ORINCON CorporationChristopher Calisi Overland Data, Inc.

Mike Atkinson PacketVideo TechnologiesDon Deel ’75 Prisa NetworksDan Sullivan QUALCOMM, Inc.

Mark Ambrose Raytheon Electronic SystemsRichard Honn Riley SuperSkyrocket, LLCErvin Frazier Rincon Research Corporation

Thomas Dillon SAICDavid Lyon Silicon Wave

David Esbeck Solar Turbines Inc.David Eccles Sony Technology Center-San Diego

Robert Kolb SPAWAR Systems San Diego Ctr.Emil Sarpa Sun Microsystems Computer Co.

David Evans The Aerospace CorporationRichard Crispo The Boeing Company

Dave Vandervoet TRW, Inc.Jerry Tustaniwskyj Unisys Corp.

Steve Hart ’80 ’86 ViaSat, Inc.Ronald Hegli Websense, Inc.

Andrew Manzi ’88 ’96 WJ CommunicationsGary Meloney XSILOGY

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University of California, San Diego

Bob Conn, Dean

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 WILL FIND ITS PLACEIN HISTORY as a day of horrific assault on free-dom and of tragic human loss. On behalf of thefaculty, staff and students of the UCSD JacobsSchool of Engineering, I extend our deepest sym-pathies to the families whose members were in-jured or lost in this terrible attack.

As we enter the 2001/2002 academic year, ourthoughts are defined by the September terroristattacks. We at the nation’s research universitieswill be challenged to find our place in our nation’sefforts and as educators to care for our studentsconsistent with our principles of equity, fairness,and tolerance.

In recent talks, I’ve described what I consider tobe a shifting paradigm for innovation. Duringthe 45 years of the Cold War, innovation wasdriven by the desire to improve national securitywhile driving economic prosperity. Federal spend-ing on research at Universities exploded. The pur-pose, as stated eloquently by Vannevar Bush in“Science, the Endless Frontier”, was to “insurethe education and training of people in areas ofscience and technology that will help underpinnational security while ensuring a prosperous na-tion.”

During this Cold War era, university-industrypartnerships were often limited to interactions be-tween faculty and the large research labs and com-panies involved in national defense. During thisperiod, industry was able to invest quite heavilyin long term research and development.

Beginning after the end of the Cold War, theinnovation paradigm began to shift toward inno-vation for economic prosperity and health. Theessence of this shift began much earlier but theend of the Cold War accelerated the shift. Rela-tionships between industry, universities and thegovernment were transformed in the 1990’s by aglobalized economy, a restructured and highly pro-ductive private sector, a downsized federal gov-ernment, and state governments with increasingresponsibilities. Industry was more keenly fo-cused on the marketplace with less capital to in-vest in long-term basic research. As a result, re-search universities became more proactively en-gaged with companies ranging from startups tolarge global corporations, and universities tookon increased responsibility for creating fundamen-tal knowledge through research. This also meantthat universities needed to assume greater andmore-proactive responsibility for ensuring thatnew knowledge and discoveries were transferredfor the public good.

The tragic events of September 11 will now usherus into another paradigm shift with a refocus oninnovation for national security. This new para-digm will however be different than the paradigmshift following World War II and following the

end of the Cold War. In this new era, state govern-ments will carry a heavy burden for ensuring thesecurity of their citizens within their borders. Al-though federal research spending will be focusedon national security, there will not be a large in-crease in the overall budget for research, and manyof the issues will be new. The present conflict iswith an opposition structured more like the Inter-net than one or more nation states. The issues willnow be more similar to combating an Internet vi-rus attack than the more conventional battles ofthe past, including the most recent Gulf War. Con-sequently, I believe the government will now lookto industry and universities for ideas on how toapply existing and emerging commercial technolo-gies for defense, and particularly to examine thestructure of communication and information net-works, and their defense, as a model of what needsto be done.

Operating in a more and more global environ-ment, industry will continue to be driven by a highlycompetitive market and short product cycles, whiledoing its best to respond to the nation’s nationaldefense needs. And continuing the trend of the1990’s, universities will play a special and large rolein creating fundamental new knowledge.We must seriously consider our mission to includenot only education and the creation of new knowl-edge, but also the rapid and effective translation ofour discoveries for the benefit of society. Now,perhaps more than ever, our eye will also be onapplications that stem from our research in orderto ensure the national good.

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Around the School

Paturi Leads Computer Science & EngineeringIn August, Ramamohan (Mohan) Paturi assumed the reins of the fast-growing Computer Science and Engineering Department from interimchair Ron Graham. Paturi’s appointment runs through June 2004.

Paturi received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in India, his Ph.D. fromPennsylvania State University, and a postdoctoral fellowship fromHarvard University. He joined the Jacobs School in 1986 and wasnamed Teacher of the Year in 1995.

Paturi’s current research interests include complexity of algorithms,lower bounds for circuits, and efficient exponential algorithms for theSatisfiability problem. He is also actively working on digital libraries andknowledge management.

A WHO’S WHO OF MORE THAN 15LEADING THINKERS and practitio-ners of information theory met on theJacobs School campus October 15 & 16.Electrical and computer engineering pro-fessor Jack Wolf organized the sympo-sium to coincide with the dedication of astatue of Claude E. Shannon at the Cen-ter for Magnetic Recording Research(CMRR). Considered by some the unsunggenius of the 20th Century, Shannon diedearlier this year—unknown to the publicat large. Yet the ‘father of informationtheory’ did pioneering work that is cen-tral to the digital revolution—and muchof the work now being done on telecom-munications and information storage atUCSD.

Apart from Wolf, two Jacobs Schoolfaculty made presentations during thesymposium that was streamed simulta-neously on the World Wide Web: CMRRdirector Paul Siegel, and Alon Orlitsky, aninformation theorist who spoke aboutuniversal data compression. Others de-livering papers or reminiscences about Sh-annon have names synonymous with therapid advances in telecommunications ofthe past 30 years: Elwyn Berlekamp,Solomon Golomb, Andrew Viterbi, Tho-mas Cover, Dave Forney, Robert Luckyand others. Roughly half the presenters

Shannon Symposium Gathers Information Theory Greats

Larson Named Director of Wireless Center

Larry Larson (ECE) has been named director of the Center for Wire-less Communications (CWC), a job he had been sharing as co-directorfor most of the past year with Ramesh Rao (ECE). Larson, who holdsthe Communications Industry Chair at the Jacobs School, has pub-lished more than 140 papers, received 22 U.S. patents, and is a Fellowof the IEEE. He is currently working on the design of inexpensivewireless communications hardware that will allow for longer batterylife and higher data rates.

Activities at CWC are supported by the telecommunications indus-try, and representatives from the 17 member companies are involved inall aspects of its operations. See www-cwc.ucsd.edu.

ON THE COVERThe von Liebig Centerprovides advisory services, pre-seed technolgy advancementfunds, and entrepreneurismeducation.

Research 4Project to deploy a distrib-uted terascale network.

Innovation 5Research focuses on higherdata rates for wireless Internetaccess.

Faculty 6Trivedi leads robotics project todetect and respond to trafficincidents.

CENTERCorporate Affiliates Program isindustry’s gateway to theJacobs School.

Students 7Jacobs School sees jump inapplications and enroll-ment.

CorporatePartnership 8Commercialization grantsavailable for crisismanagement innovations.

Private Support 9Record graduate fellowshipsupport enhances Fall2001 recruitment.

Alumni 10Marco Thompsontransforms San Diego’sTelecom Council.

Job OpportunitiesBack Cover

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are winners of the prestigious ShannonAward, given yearly by the IEEE Infor-mation Theory Society. UCSD’s Jack Wolfwon in 2000/2001 and recently ceded thetitle to Toby Berger of Cornell University.Berger kicked off the conference, with afar-sighted presentation on the applica-tion of information theory to the field ofbiological sciences.

At the conclusion of the symposium,Jacobs School Dean Bob Conn and

Qualcomm CEO Irwin Jacobs joinedpresenters and faculty to dedicate a statueof Shannon, a permanent addition tothe CMRR collection. The plaque beneaththe statue states that Shannon’s “formu-lation of the mathematical theory ofcommunication provided the founda-tion for the development of data stor-age and transmission systems thatlaunched the information age.”

The last of thesix originalShannon bustsis now locatedat UCSD

On Demand video of presentations made by all 15 speakers at the ShannonSymposium will be available at www.calit2.net/events/shannon_01.html

“We felt anobligationto tell theworld aboutcontributionsShannonmade to theinformationage.”

- Jack Wolf

Claude E. Shannon

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The mesh al lows users to zoom in onstress concentrations and perform detailednumerical analysis at specif ic locat ions.

Research

WebWatch

Earthquakes on the WebJacobs School structural engineer AhmedElgamal is providing public access tovaluable earthquake research tools.Backed by the National Science Foun-dation, his students Zhaohui Yang,Michael Fraser, Catherine Pagni, andMinh Phan have created three web sites.At http://cyclic.ucsd.edu, users can cre-ate liquefaction models to better under-stand soil performance during a quake.Or, they can access live shake tableexperiments to analyze structural per-formance. One site at http://webshaker.ucsd.edu is targeted at en-gineers and researchers, and another athttp://e-quake.ucsd.edu/quaky/ is in-tended for K-6 children. The latter con-tains a fun and colorful real-time experi-ment, and easy-to-understand earth-quake information.

Aerospace EngineeringEducationThe Jacobs School’s Aerospace Engi-neering program has gone online with awebsite that introduces students to theeducational vision of integrating disci-plines critical to aerospace including:system modeling/computing; material/structure design; controls; combustion;and fluid dynamics. The site also pro-vides information about faculty and re-search projects affiliated with the pro-gram. Visit http://aerospace.ucsd.edu/.

BioComputational ModelsThe BioNOME Resource is a web-based repository of bio-computationalmodels and observational data initiatedby a gift from Procter and Gamble andoperated by the San DiegoSupercomputer Center under the direc-tion of principal investigators AndrewMcCulloch (bioengineering) and LynnTenEyck (SDSC). Continued support forthe site comes from the National Bio-medical Computation Resource (http://nbcr.sdsc.edu). The major focus areasare in signal transduction and cardio-vascular science and include modelsand experimental data related to modelinputs, calibration, and validation. Thesite aims to promote scientific discov-ery by providing a web-basedworkspace to manage, navigate andaccess these objects, and access totools and user interfaces to executemodels, visualize and download theirresults, and integrate model results anddata. Visit http://bionome.sdsc.edu/

TeraGrid Supercomputing

The National Science Foundation recently awarded $53 million tofour U.S. research institutions to build and deploy a distributed terascalefacility (DTF). Most of the funds will go to the San Diego SupercomputerCenter (SDSC) at UCSD and the National Center forSupercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champlaign; Caltech and ArgonneNational Laboratory also share in the award.

The DTF, integrated by software to create the TeraGrid,will have more than 13.6 teraflops (trillions of calculationsper second) of computing power and facilities capable ofmanaging and storing more than 450 terabytes (trillions ofbytes) of data. Besides the world’s fastest unclassifiedsupercomputers, the TeraGrid’s hardware and software willinclude ultra high-speed networks, high-resolutionvisualization environments, and toolkits for grid computing.

“Breakthrough discoveries in fields from biology and genomics toastronomy depend critically on computational and data managementinfrastructure as a first-class scientific tool,” said CSE professor FranBerman, director of SDSC and a principal investigator of the TeraGridaward. “This project recognizes the increasing importanceof data-oriented computing and connection of dataarchives, remote instruments, computational sites, andvisualization over high-speed networks. The TeraGrid willbe a far more powerful and flexible scientific tool than anysingle supercomputing system.”

The TeraGrid willperform at up to13.6 teraflops andstore more than450 terabytes

Research Focuses on Roleof Proteins in DiseaseShankar Subramaniam, profes-sor of bioengineering at the Ja-cobs School, is developing com-putational tools to identify anddecipher the function of mito-chondrial proteins to better un-derstand their role in diseasessuch as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's,osteoarthritis and diabetes.

The research is funded by a LifeSciences Informatics (LSI) Pro-gram grant from the Universityof California's Industry Univer-sity Cooperative Research Pro-gram. Subramaniam ispartnering with Mitokor, a SanDiego company focused on thecommercial applications of mi-tochondrial science.

Meshing Technique to PredictStructural PerformanceAdaptive finite element mesh refine-ment can be an important tool for en-gineering and scientific simulations,and is crucial in analyzing the perfor-mance of structures and materialswhen subjected to stress.

However, programming withthis tool has historically been aformidable task. Structural engi-neering professor Petr Krysl, incollaboration with researchers atthe California Institute of Technology, offers an alternative algo-rithm that is simpler and more powerful than current approaches.

Krysl says the algorithm enables users to obtain a wider range ofsurface data and avoid costly errors: “This new approach is applicableto traditional areas of mesh refinement, as well as to the newer areaof adaptive approximations on subdivision surfaces. This approachalso complements recent advances in so-called “partition-of-unitymethods.”

Jacobs School faculty will play key roles in the creationof the most comprehensive distributed computinginfrastructure ever deployed for scientific research.

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Innovation

NEW PIC TO COME

FIVE NEW RESEARCH PROJECTS couldlead to reduced costs for mobile communi-cations, and higher data rates for wireless In-ternet access. The state’s Communications Re-search (CoRe) program awarded $1.5 millionin matching funds to the Jacobs School’s Cen-ter for Wireless Communications (CWC). Thefinancing complements roughly $2 million incorporate funding from: Hughes NetworkSystems, Texas Instruments, Nokia, Fuji Elec-tric, Conexant, Intersil, STMicro, IdeaEDGE,Ericsson, AMCC, KDDI and Qualcomm.

The five projects include:

State and Companies Award$3.5M for Wireless Research

■ Linear Power Amplifiers and TransmitterBuilding Blocks for Next-Generation Wire-less Applications.

■ Critical Mixed-Signal Circuit Blocks forHighly Integrated Wireless Transceivers.

■ Enhanced Coverage of High Data RateWireless Systems.

■ Space-Time Processing for Wireless.■ Wireless OFDM Communications.For details, see http://www-cwc.ucsd.edu.More information on CoRe is available athttp://uc-industry.berkeley.edu/sectors/core.htm.

ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING is one ofthe fundamental technologies targeted by Cal-(IT)2, and in late August researchers deployed anetwork of sensors along Tuolumne Ridge inYosemite National Park. They'll measure snow-pack and how water is accumulated and releasedin the Sierra alpine zone.

Cal-(IT)2 and Scripps Institution of Ocean-ography climate/hydrology expert Dan Cayan(pictured) and graduate student JessicaLundquist spent 10 days installing sensors atthe Yosemite site. It was the first phase of aplan to instrument the water-bearing west slopeof the Sierra Nevadas that is critical toCalifornia's water supply.

Improved Materials for Lightweight ArmorKenneth S. Vecchio (MAE) recently presented resultsrelating to two UCSD disclosures from his DARPA fundedresearch on wear- and corrosion-resistant layers for metalalloys and improved materials for lightweight armor.Vecchio’s inventions have been used to create compositematerials and coatings for titanium, nickel or iron-basedalloys that are extremely hard and wear resistant. Thenovel structure of these materials makes them lightweightand inherently damage tolerant. They are constructedusing methods that do not require vacuum or inert atmo-spheric environments and use off-the-shelf componentsmaking construction easy and cost effective. Applicationsfor these inventions include use in light armored vehicles,missile and aircraft components, vehicle structural com-ponents, gas turbine engine components and engine after-burner nozzles. Contact: Dr. Jane Moores, (858) 822-3144, invent@ucsd.edu

Algorithm for Circuit DesignsAndrew B. Kahng (CSE) has disclosed an inventiontitled "Floorplan Evaluation with Timing Driven GlobalWireplanning, Pin Assignment, and Buffer/Wire Sizing",which represents a novel approach for integrated circuitdesigns. This algorithm can be incorporated into com-

mercial VLSI CAD tools used in performing circuit floorplanevaluation and analyzing buffered global routing systems.The invention expands upon previous research in bufferand wire resource allocation and floorplanning to developa new algorithm that accurately estimates routing resourcesby simultaneously addressing: maximum source/bufferwireloads; wire and buffer congestion constraints; indi-vidual sink delay constraints; buffer/wire sizing and layerassignment; and pin assignment. Co-inventors of thetechnology include Ion Mandoiu (CSE Post-doc) andGeorgia State University's Alex Zelikovsky andChristoph Albrecht. For information contact Dave Gib-bons: dgibbons@ucsd.edu

New Licensing OfficersThe Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Ser-vices Office has added three members to the licensingstaff for physical sciences and engineering including Dr.Barry Gelernt, bgelernt@ucsd.edu; William “Bill”Decker, wjdecker@ucsd.edu; and David Gibbons,dgibbons@ucsd.edu.

This column is provided by UCSD’s Technology Trans-fer and Intellectual Property Services (TTIPS):http://invent.ucsd.edu

DuPont Donates Patents to be Developed forFlat-Panel Displays and Pollution Treatment

DUPONT HAS DONATED patents, trademarks and technical information to UCSD, andthe Jacobs School will develop the intellectual property for applications ranging from flat-panel displays to pollution treatment. DuPont will also contribute $400,000 for research onthe technology, to be led by Chemical Engineering Professor Jan Talbot.

The donation includes all rights to Tacky Dot™ technology, developed to rapidly mountparticles on a glass surface for lab testing. So-called tacky, or adhesive, dots are placed in precisepatterns on a slide, so the mounting process can be as simple as dusting the sample onto theslide.

“Our research will focus on using the adhesive dots and covering them with small-diam-eter powders,” said Talbot. “Luminescent phosphor powder will be tested to improve theimage quality of flat-panel display screens, while powder made of photocatalytic materialswill be used in experiments on panels that harness solar rays to produce energy, clean up wastewater, or mitigate air pollution.”

THE SAN DIEGO TROLLEY will be thetest-bed for a new line of high-speed, non-contact sensors that monitor the health of rail-road tracks. Structural Engineering ProfessorFrancesco Lanza di Scalea has devised the air-coupled sensors, which act as both a speakerand microphone to bounce ultrasonic waveswithin rails in order to discover cracks, warpingand other defects.

"These devices don't require contact with therail, unlike those currently in use that are lo-cated inside of the water-filled, rubber wheelsof a conventional inspection car," says Lanza diScalea. The rubber wheels slowly run over therail head, and their bulky geometry limits theinspection to only certain regions of the rail,leaving other areas unexamined.

Adds Lanza di Scalea: "Because the new sen-sors are not limited by contact, they can run atany speed and allow faster, more accurate andless expensive inspections." The prototypenon-contact sensors will be contained in an in-spection car which travels over the tracks andcollects data as needed.

Effective monitoring systems are importantto the railroad industry because of its aginginfrastructure. Early and accurate defect detec-tion is critical to minimizing repair costs andavoiding derailments.

Sensor Technology

Patents and Licenses

Railroad Inspections

Water Supply

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Faculty

Mohan Trivedi

Q: How hard is it to attract new faculty?A: Fortunately, we can now attract top talent. Last year, we interviewed eight toten people, and I would say that almost all of them considered UCSD their firstchoice! It helps that our national ranking (as compiled by U.S. News) has gone up.Over the past six years, our ECE faculty has grown from 33 to 43, and we areplanning to add three or four professors a year as the entire School of Engineeringdoubles in size over ten years.

Q: In which areas of research will you require more attention?A: Wireless, of course, is very important, and the goal is a wireless Internet. Butwireless is only one aspect of this. We should have an optical backbone networkcapable of handling lots of capacity. Most of the new faculty recently came fromwireless or coding, but now we’re looking to recruit new faculty in photonics—from nanophotonics to integrated photonic circuits to optical networks. Otherareas are sensors/signals networks and nanotechnology.

Q: Will the increase in student enrollment keep pace with faculty?A: Not exactly, because you have to remember that we have a higher ratio ofstudents to faculty than at other engineering departments of most of the top tenmajor universities. We have about 30 graduate and undergraduate students perfaculty member, and over time we’d like to get that number more in line to about22 at rival institutions. So graduate student enrollment will grow, from about 300to around 520 in ten years.

Q: What about undergraduates?A: Last year we had about 1,000 undergraduates, and we want to grow that toroughly 1,300 in ten years. But it looks as if we are going to reach that target longbefore then. This year we’re getting 430 new students. After taking graduatingseniors out of the equation, we’ll have about 1,200 undergraduate majors thisschool year.

Q: As the new school year begins, where do you want to take ECE?A: Overall, I’m trying to make this department a better place to work and tostudy. We are trying to develop a community spirit here, very much in line withDean Conn’s promoting a JSOE ethos. For instance, we’ve instituted a free lunchfor the faculty every Monday, and we open it up to all staff once a month. I wantpeople to communicate face to face, not just by sending e-mails.

Q: What sort of role do you see alumni playing in the department?A: We’re definitely trying to include more alumni. In May, we had the inauguralmeeting of ACE, our Alumni Club of ECE. We had a great turnout of some 75people, including speakers who became successful entrepreneurs after graduatingfrom UCSD. We’re now planning three ACE meetings a year, and it’s very impor-tant for the school. After all, alumni can be a great resource for us, and they may hireour students!

Q & A with Charles TuChairman, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Charles Tu (Ph.D. Yale ’78) joined the ECE faculty in1988 after working for AT&T Bell Labs in New Jerseyfor eight years. He now chairs a department with 180Ph.D. and 120 Master’s degree candidates—makingECE the largest graduate department on campus.

THE BIGGEST PROJECT now under-way in his lab could literally save lives—and potentially billions of dollars. Andfor Mohan Trivedi and his dynamic teamof students, the importance of the work

they are doing generates an enthusiasm that is positivelypalpable. “It is very exciting to be working on projects wherewe anticipate very clear benefits for society not so far off inthe future,” says ECE professor Trivedi.

Trivedi, who directs UCSD’s Computer Vision and Ro-botics Research (CVRR) laboratory, is referring to a projectsponsored by Caltrans and the UC Office of the President’sDigital Media Innovation initiative. The program’s goal:develop a system to detect and analyze traffic accidentsusing cameras and other sensors deployed along roadways,and build a robotic emergency-response team that can swinginto action long before the police or other emergency per-sonnel can reach the scene. “If you just shave five minutesoff the response time to accidents involving potentially fa-tal injuries, you’d save hundreds of lives,” says Trivedi. “Itwould also reduce the amount of traffic congestion causedby accidents and other so-called traffic incidents, andCaltrans estimates that those incidents cost California alonean estimated $10 billion a year.”

Trivedi has been at UCSD since 1995, but his work in thetransportation sector dates back to before 1979, when hegot his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Utah State. Inthe 1980s he taught at Louisiana State University and theUniversity of Tennessee; at both schools, he consulted withJapanese railways on robotics to detect and repair rails.

Since transportation is one of the core “layers” addressedby the new California Institute for Telecommunications andInformation Technology, Trivedi is heavily involved as Cal-(IT)2’s layer leader for UCSD. In that capacity, he’s teamingup with counterparts at UC Irvine to forge a combined re-search agenda that will speed up and enhance the new tech-nology each campus might otherwise develop on its own.

On Oct. 19, Trivedi hosted the first Cal-(IT)2 workshop onintelligent transportation (“smart roads”) and telematics(“smart cars”), with more than 100 attendees from auto com-panies, other industrial partners, Caltrans, research fundingagencies as well as UCI, UCSD and affiliatedorganizations. He took the opportunity tointroduce workshop participants to MIA(picture at right)—the “mobile interactiveavatar” built in his lab. The mobile robot isequipped with a two-way video interfaceable to beam pictures back to a control roomfrom an accident scene via high-speed wire-less Internet lines deployed on the UCSDcampus. Together with other wireless equip-ment now under development in Trivedi’slab and elsewhere, MIA could one day be-come the cornerstone of an elaborate network of cameras,sensors and robots along highways to make “intelligent”roadways a reality.

Meanwhile, with all the research he’s now overseeing,not to mention almost daily contact with companies andorganizations interested in the outcome of his projects,Trivedi still finds time to teach. Undergraduates get the ben-efit of his expertise in machine intelligence, while the outgo-ing professor gives his graduate classes insight into com-puter vision. Says Trivedi: “Teaching and research are in-tertwined.”

Robert Bitmead (MAE) is joining the Editorial Board of the Elsevier journal Automatica. Automaticais the flagship publication of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).

Miroslav Krstic (MAE) has been elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control SystemsSociety.

Francesco Lanza di Scalea (SE) has been named editor of the journal Research in Nondestruc-tive Evaluation, the archival journal of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing.

Larry Smarr (CSE), director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Tech-nology, was one of only ten academics nationwide invited to participate in Fortune Magazine'sBrainstorm 2001 conference in Aspen, Colorado, August 1-3. The publication convened the meetingto tackle "key issues the world faces in the near future--human, social, national, global, environment."

Stefan Llewellyn Smith (MAE) has been awarded the 2001-2002 Hellman Fellowship, includinga $15,000 stipend for research.

Faculty Honors

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Students

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Wanted: “Battlebot” Backer“Battlebots”—remote-control robots that battlewith other robots—are all the craze sinceComedy Central began airing their match-ups. Now, three students from Mechanical &Aerospace Engineering think they’ve comeup with a winning design but are seekingsponsors to raise the $13,000 needed to buildand deploy it. They’ve already raised $5,000and are looking for a sponsor to cover the restin exchange for the sponsor’s name on therobot and recognition in a documentary to airon UCSD-TV. Call Azad Behzahi at (858)361-5223 or e-mail abehzahi@ucsd.edu.

Starrett Memorial Scholarship

(l to r) Jaime Booke Werkmeister (mechani-cal & aerospace), Gaurav Abbi and DucHoai Tran (bioengineering) received the 2001John E. Starrett Jr. Memorial Scholarships.Awarded annually to graduating seniors whohave displayed academic excellence, thescholarship program was established in 1991in memory of John E. Starrett Jr., who wasthe principal development engineer forUCSD’s Center of Excellence for AdvancedMaterials.

Summer OutreachJacobs School graduate students taught twoof the eight courses offered at UCSD overthe summer as part of a program to bringhigh-school students to live and study oncampus. A group of 137 students spent threeweeks in July in dorms at Revelle College,taking daily classes as part of the inauguralAcademic Connections program at UCSD.

IN MANY WAYS FRESHMAN EZEKIELBHASKER is a typical Jacobs School student. Herides his bike around campus, plays tennis and bas-ketball, and he took a summer job. But unlike otherstudents picked for the first batch of fellowshipsawarded by Cal-(IT)2—all of whom were juniorsand seniors—Bhasker was fresh out of high school.Even more surprisingly, he’s only 15.

“UCSD was very aggressive in recruiting me,”admits Bhasker. “And I was able to fulfill mydesire to do research during the summer.” Thatresearch was part of CSE professor Bill Griswold’sActiveCampus project, which aims to implementa campus-wide network that will make UCSDseem like a more intimate environment even asit gets bigger. Bhasker applauds the goal: “Tech-nology can push people apart, because you haveyour e-mail and you can just sit at home andtype. Our project is supposed to cause accidentalmeetings with friends on campus and keep you awareof what’s going on around you, creating more of acommunity feeling.”

Over the summer Bhasker walked around cam-pus measuring the strength at each spot of wirelesssignals from nearby access points. He is using thedata as a benchmark to test algorithms for locationsensing in a wireless environment.

“Today we can guess approximately by saying youare close to whichever access point is transmitting yoursignal,” says Bhasker. “But we want to be able to sayin which building, on which floor and, eventually,pinpoint within five or ten feet where you are. Thisinformation can help newcomers get accustomed tothe campus, assist students in finding professors ifthey need to clarify a concept, or even find a buddyanywhere on campus.”

The Cal-(IT)2 fellowship wasn’t Bhasker’s firstchance to do research on a college campus. In2000, he was among five high-school studentsnationwide selected for a physics summer re-

search fellowship at Caltech. It was just one in a stringof honors in math, science and humanities that, de-spite his young age, take up three single-spaced pageson his resume. As a 7th-grader in 1997, Bhasker startedtaking college courses at Cal State Dominguez Hills.A year later, he captained the California team to athird-place finish in the finals of MathCounts, a na-tionwide competition for high-school high achievers.

When Bhasker graduated as Student of the Yearfrom Redondo Union High School in RedondoBeach, he was weighing multiple full-scholarship col-lege offers. Stanford and MIT said he was too young,but he had his pick of UC campuses.

In the end, he chose the Jacobs School. “I foundthat San Diego is very influential in my area. I met theprofessors and got a positive feeling about San Di-ego. I felt the campus was more warm and receptive.And Cal-(IT)2 seemed like a very great adventure.”Bhasker landed Regents and Jacobs scholarships, aswell as the Cal-(IT)2 summer fellowship. And whileattending school and pursuing his passion for play-ing the tabla, classical Indian drums, he’ll be able tolive at home—thanks to a supportive family. “Theyeven moved to San Diego so that I could attendUCSD,” says Bhasker. “My parents have sacrificed alot for me.”

15-Year-Old Freshman Uses Technology toBring Students Closer Together

Class of 2001What They Will Earn

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A team of JacobsSchool mechanicalengineering stu-dents received thirdplace at the Ameri-can Society of Me-chanical Engineers(ASME) regionalconference, fortheir all-in-oneumbilical cordclamp. Devon Brown, Aaron Burmeister and Jes-sica Lanzisera developed the product during theirsenior design course. The project was sponsoredand mentored by local obstetrician Dr. DianneRosenburg.

Mechanical Engineering StudentsDevelop Umbilical Cord Clamp

The adjustable device clamps the cordin two locations, and cuts it with anintegrated blade.

San Diego 50%

Elsewhere inCalifornia-20%

OtherStates-6%

Where They Are Going

Freshmen 1,000 7,170 +15%New Transfer Students 290 1,300 +15%New Graduate Students 337 3,072 +42%

Fall 2001 Snapshot Enrollment Applications

> The Jacobs School welcomesAT&T Enhanced Network Services,SPAWAR Systems Center SanDiego, and Xsilogy, the latestcompanies to become CAPmembers.

For more information about CAP,contact Kelly Briggs at (858) 534-2329and visit www.soe.ucsd.edu/corp_partners/

> Companies can now log on to aweb page and supply EngineeringStudent Services with descriptions ofinternship opportunities:www.soe.ucsd.edu/job_market/internship/intern_description_form.html

> Many thanks to outgoing CAP Ex-ecutive Board chairman Currie Munce’89 of IBM. Munce is the first alumnusof the Jacobs School to serve aschairman. Alan Chow, VP and gen-eral manager of Teradata Develop-ment division of NCR is our incomingchairman. Vice chair for 2001-2002is Dr. Eric L. Lasley, VP Research &Engineering, BAE Systems.

> CAP members are encouraged tosign up for a “Day at UCSD.” Arrangean info session, professional devel-opment workshop or technical semi-nar. This is a great way to interactwith Jacobs School students. Con-tact Tatis Cervantes (858) 534-3148.

> Thanks to Dave Esbeck, VicePresident, Customer Services, So-lar Turbines, for hosting anotherfabulous CAP/San Diego bay cruiseon Monday, Sept. 24. A wonderful timewas had by all.

> The CAP Annual Resumé Servicewill be released mid-January 2002.

> Mark your calendars!

February 22, 2001Annual Research Review 8:00 a.m.to 4:30 p.m. at UCSD Price Center.

> Kudos: CAP Executive Board Mem-ber and Alumnus Michelle Mazzoni’89 was recently promoted to SeniorDirector, Biological Research, at Al-liance Pharmaceuticals.

Corporate Affiliates Program

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Corporate Partnership

California, Industry Meet Financial Commitments to Cal-(IT)2

DESPITE THE DOWNTURN grippingmost high-technology companies, industrialpartners and California lawmakers are mak-ing good on their commitments to financethe California Institute for Telecommunica-tions and Information Technology. In lateJuly, California Gov. Gray Davis signed intolaw a 2001–02 state budget that includes $25million in capital funds for Cal-(IT)2. Themoney will be used primarily to continuedesign and begin construction on the twobuildings that will house institute facilitiesat UCSD and UC Irvine. It is the second offour equal installments pledged by the statein 2000.

Meanwhile, Cal-(IT)2 is well on its waytoward locking in pledges worth $140 mil-lion from private companies. Institute offi-cials have completed agreements worth nearly$47 million with industrial partners, and theyare in active negotiation on over $90 millionmore.

Separately, faculty associated with Cal-(IT)2

aggressively pursued federal funding on awide range of projects—leading to well over$38 million in awarded or pending grantssince January 1. That is two-thirds of theoriginal four-year grant goal for the institute.

Taken together, all fund-raising is expectedto push the total Cal-(IT)2 budget to morethan $400 million over four years.

Among the first to benefit from the fund-ing are 22 undergraduate students awardedresearch fellowships this past summer. Cal-(IT)2 is also awarding 73 graduate fellowshipsfor the 2001-2002 school year across the twocampuses.

Says Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr: “Ourfellowships are meant to attract and retainthe highest-caliber students. That will be cru-cial if we are going to fulfill our promise oflaying the foundations for the new wirelessInternet five to ten years into the future.”

More than 50 companies now participate in Cal-(IT)2 -up from just over 40 when the institute was formed inDecember 2000.

Students Get HP PDA's for ABC's of Wireless Campus

Arch VenturesAmpersand VenturesCox CommunicationsDiamondhead VenturesEnosys MarketsESRIExtreme Networks

New Partners

THE CENTER FOR the Commercializa-tion of Advanced Technologies (CCAT) isaccepting proposals for grants of up to$65,000 to support commercialization oftechnologies for crisis and consequence man-agement. Applicants may also apply for avariety of CCAT services including commer-cial feasibility studies, market analysis,prototyping, testing and evaluation. Theseresources are available to UCSD faculty andto individuals from the private or public sec-tor who reside in San Diego county.

CCAT administers a $5.8 million grantaimed at fast-tracking the development of

advanced technology that could be used bythe government in crisis and consequencemanagement, but which also has applicationsin the private sector. Funded through theOffice of Naval Research, the program ismanaged by a consortium including the Ja-cobs School, UCSD CONNECT, San DiegoState University's Entrepreneurial Manage-ment Center, SPAWAR and Orincon Corpo-ration International.

To receive the request for proposals or for moreinformation, contact CCAT at (619) 594-4524,www.ccatsandiego.org

Funds Available for Crisis Management Research

Students in Computer Science and Engineering will participate incutting-edge, hands-on wireless technology research, thanks to a grantfrom Hewlett-Packard. The computer manufacturer has donated morethan 60 HP Jornada 548 personal digital assistants (PDAs) as well ascash to buy wireless equipment that will link each Jornada to thehigh-speed wireless networks deployed on the UCSD campus.

The grant was awarded through the HP Initiative in Mobile Tech-nology Solutions, and has a total value of approximately $400,000.

The wireless PDAs will be used in a variety of research settings,including the ActiveCampus project, which will implement a cam-pus-wide network.

JMI Equity FundOracleQuantumSeagate StorageSGITime Domain

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C E N T E RFor Entrepreneurism andTechnology Advancement

Technology Advancement

Advisory Services are provided by the professionalstaff to mentor UCSD inventors through thecommercialization process, and introduce them to expertsand opportunities both inside and outside the University.

Pre-seed Technology Advancement Funds of up to$100,000 each will be awarded to help inventors assessand confirm the commercial potential of new discoveries.

Laboratory facilities will be available to recipients of theTechnology Advancement Funds to continue proof of con-cept research.

Education

The von Liebig Center will also support the develop-ment of academic courses to prepare engineering stu-dents for work in entrepreneurial environments such asstart-up companies or new product groups in existingcompanies.

Courses are offered through the Jacobs School, andare designed by engineers for engineering students.

www.vonliebig.ucsd.edu

VON LIEBIG CENTER from page 1

The concepts embodied in the vonLiebig Center for Entrepreneurism andTechnology Advancement are an expan-sion of a program first conceived as partof UCSD's vision to lead bioengineer-ing into the 21st Century. This visionwas supported by the Charles Lee Pow-ell Foundation, and by the WhitakerFoundation when it awarded UCSD thefirst of its Leadership Awards in 1998.

“These three foundations have helpedto make our dreams come true, and the

total vision simply could not be reachedwithout all three of them,” said DeanConn.

“They have enabled us to establish aunique program: one that will be nation-ally watched and modeled, that will addvalue to our research, and that will placeUCSD and the Jacobs School at the lead-ing edge in entrepreneurship and in tech-nology advancement and transfer, justas we're at the forefront of discovery inscience, technology and medicine.”

This is a milestone year for graduate student recruitment at the JacobsSchool. As the reputation of the graduate programs continues to rise, theSchool saw a 42 percent increase in graduate applications. And for the firsttime in its history, the Jacobs School was able to offer fellowship or assistant-ship support to all new Ph.D. students.

As a result, the School was able to recruit a stellar class of 337 Ph.D., M.S.and M.Eng. students and increase the enrollment by 9 percent. The newlyenrolled graduate students rank among the nation’s top 12 engineering stu-dent bodies in terms of average GRE scores, based upon data reported inthe U.S. News and World Report graduate engineering program survey.

Much of the fellowship support was made possible through generousindividual and corporate gifts, as well as a one-time allocation from the State.

Fellowship Support Aids 2001Graduate Student Recruitment

129 Ph.D. Students Receive Financial AidPrivate Support Fellowships

Cal-(IT)2 member companies 34Charles Lee Powell Foundation 17UCSD Matching Fellowships Campaign 16Jacobs Fellows 16

State Support Fellowships

State of California 43University of California 5

Von Liebig Center to be Housed in Bioengineering FacilityThe offices and laboratories of the von Liebig Center will be housed in the Powell-FochtBioengineering Hall when the building is completed in 2002. With its modern facilities,this building will enable faculty and students to pursue leading-edge research andapply emerging technologies to advance understanding, treatment, and prevention ofhuman disease.

VON LIEBIG

William J. von Liebig was a medicaldevice pioneer with a keen interestin manufacturing textiles for use bysurgeons. He established MeadoxMedicals, Inc., in 1961, which manu-factured implants and devices forvascular surgery. His innovationshave helped extend the lifespan ofsome 7 million people world wide.

William J. von LiebigMedical DeviceEntrepreneur

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Alumni

Marco ThompsonTransforms San Diego’s Telecom Council

MARCO THOMPSON ’79, oneof San Diego’s leading software en-trepreneurs, is putting his experienceto work for the San Diego TelecomCouncil (www.sdtelecom.org).Since beginning his one-year termas president, he has dramatically al-tered the organization’s focus withthe goal of highlighting and furtherimproving the region’s stellar tele-communications environment.

Thompson, working alongside the Council’s executive direc-tor and staff, has helped transform the Council into a thrivingorganization.

“San Diego is the most desirable place in the world to start atelecommunications company,” says Thompson. “There arealready about 500 successful firms in the area, and 100 newones will be invented each year. That is amazing growth.”

A major council initiative is the Telecom1 promotional cam-paign, which attempts to continue the momentum by sendingthe message that San Diego is first in telecommunications. Thecampaign is designed to enhance recruitment throughout theregion and increase the draw of prospective employees to SanDiego.

To achieve its goals, the Council is implementing a nationaladvertising and public relations campaign, and hosting tradeshows to build enthusiasm.

Thompson also led the creation of 15 “special interest groups”(SIGs) to provide networking opportunities and focused edu-cational programs for various technology areas and job func-tions. One of the newest SIGs, targeted to the military sector,

attracted some 300 partici-pants to its first meeting in Au-gust. Thompson is also intenton cultivating a productive re-lationship with his alma mater.For example, the Council andUCSD CONNECT createdthe Telecom Springboard pro-gram. As entrepreneurs withstart-up companies gothrough Springboard to con-nect with venture firms andother resources, the Telecom

Council provides experienced executives who act as men-tors and advisors.

Thompson graduated with honors from UCSD in 1979,receiving his degree in electrical engineering. “While atUCSD I interned for a couple of high-tech companies,including a start-up called Megatek, which gave me real-world experience at a very young age. In fact, the schoolactually encouraged me to do this while I pursued mydegree. The internship was vital to becoming a produc-tive engineer and experiencing rapid professional growth.I have always felt that I received a world-class educationin technology, especially in the communications-relateddisciplines, and was much better prepared than thosefrom MIT and Caltech.”

After graduation, Thompson applied his passion fordesigning high-tech devices to the world ofentrepreneurism. The result was a successful companycalled Doctor Design Services (now WindRiver Systems)which he sold in the mid-1990s. Thompson still spends asmall amount of his time at WindRiver Systems.

Doctor Design was essentially a group of talented en-gineers for hire with a “can do” attitude and a knack forgetting things done on schedule. The results were verypositive and included the in-seat computer consoles pre-viously housed at Qualcomm Stadium, and the DirecTVsatellite television receivers.

Because of his appreciation for UCSD and the educa-tion he gained while attending, Thompson has also beenconsistently good to interns from the Jacobs School. “Ifirmly believe that an intern should be involved in designprojects and use the experience to actually learn some-thing. By sharing our knowledge we can help buildtomorrow’s successes,” states Thompson. This coincideswith his belief that mentoring is crucial to developing aproductive workforce. He also strives to promote an openchannel of communication in which ideas can be freelyand confidently expressed.

While Thompson believes in hard work, he also be-lieves in balance. From experience, he has learned toembrace a corporate culture that encourages employeesto have lives outside of work. Thompson’s business phi-losophies have served him very well. Today he is helpingSan Diego etch a niche in the technology echelon as atelecommunications mecca.

The Council’sTelecom1Campaign isaimed at attractingemployees andemployers to SanDiego.

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Many thanks to the 412alumni who contributed$44,000 to the 2001Annual Fund. Your giftssupport students, edu-cational initiatives andpriority programs of theJacobs School.

P U S H P E N D R A“PUSH” MOHTA hasbeen a key player in theevolution of the Inter-

net since he received his M.S. in communica-tions systems and theory in 1989. Mohta isthe founder and CEO of Vayusphere, a soft-ware company that accelerates a corporation’stime critical and frequently used business pro-cesses using mobile instant messaging tech-nology. He launched the company in July of2000, as the culmination of a stint as an En-trepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capi-

tal. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA witha development center in San Diego,Vayusphere now has over 30 employees. Priorto founding Vayusphere, Mohta was withAT&T and with Internet pioneer CERFnetsince its 1989 inception.“I am likely one of the few people in the busi-ness that formally trained for the computernetworking industry. While UCSD enjoyed areputation as a premier engineering school,the entrepreneurial success of its alumni andfaculty was already visible in many of the area’stelecommunications companies,” says Mohta.

Electrical Engineering Alumnus HeadsWireless Infrastructure Company

AT&T Names Jacobs School AlumnusCTO and President of AT&T LabsHOSSEIN ESLAMBOLCHI, who received his B.S., MS. and Ph.D. in Elec-trical Engineering from UCSD, was recently named chief technology officerand president of AT&T Labs. Prior to the new appointment, Eslambolchiwas senior vice president of packet and optical networks. “Hossein is a technology leader who has helped make AT&T's IP networkthe most reliable in the world,” said C. Michael Armstrong, AT&T Chairman

and CEO. “He has an unbeatable track record in putting new IP and broadband technologies towork for the benefit of AT&T customers.”

An expert in network reliability, Eslambolchi first joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1985. With87 patents to his name, Eslambolchi was the program manager for the Fast Automated RestorationSystem (FASTAR), which makes it possible to quickly restore phone service when high-capacity fiberoptic cables are damaged. Eslambolchi was honored as a finalist in the 1997 United States NationalInventor of the Year competition for the FASTAR technology.

1978 Richard W. Stevens, B.A.,Computer Science. Stevens hasmoved to Scottsdale, AZ where he isan attorney specializing in legal re-search. He recently published “Dial 911and Die” and has a book ready for re-lease titled “Death by Gun Control.”E-mail: dial911book@yahoo.com

1996 Gary Lazzaro, B.S, Electri-cal Engineering. Lazzaro is a NavyLieutenant flying SH-60B Sea Hawkhelicopters. Stationed at North Island,San Diego, Lazarro is a division officerand functional check flight pilot for theworld-famous “Battle Cats” of HSL-43.E-mail: glazzaro@juno.com

2000 Jamie Lessard, B.S., Struc-tural Engineering. Lessard is applyinghis education to stress analysis of thehorizontal and vertical stabilizer of TheBoeing Co.’s 777 jet airliner. Thesecomponents are constructed from car-bon fiber composite material.E-mail: jamiele737@hotmail.com

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AMCCwww.amcc.com6290 Sequence Dr., San Diego, CA 92121e-mail: jobs@amcc.com; fax: (858) 535-6500AMCC designs, develops, manufactures, and markets high-performance silicon solutions for the world’s optical networks.Positions in engineering, sales, and marketing are available.

ATA Engineering, Inc.www.ata-e.com11995 El Camino Real #200, San Diego, CA 92130e-mail: jeff.young@ata-engineering.comATA Engineering has immediate openings for mechanical andaerospace engineers for thermal and structural analysis, designand testing.

BAE Systemswww.na.baesystems.com/careerse-mail: hr.sandiego@baesystems.com; fax: (858) 592-5733Openings in Rancho Bernardo, CA for systems engineers,software engineers, database software engineers, configurationmanagement specialists, geographic information analysts, remotesensing scientists, spectroscopists. US citizenship required.

BeXcom Researchwww.bexcom.com9506 Scranton Rd., Ste. 400, San Diego, CA 92121e-mail: jkohn@bexresearch.com; fax: (858) 546-3992BeXcom Research is the R&D branch of BeXcom - a Singapore-based company that offers software and services for businesswanting to automate the procurement process.

CliniComp, Intl.www.clinicomp.com9655 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego, CA 92121e-mail: jobs@clinicomp.com; fax: (858) 546-0154Founded in 1983, CliniComp International is dedicated to theclinical information system business with emphasis on innovativesoftware and hardware technologically designed for thedemanding healthcare environment. Engineering positions areavailable in San Diego.

Conexant Systems, Inc.www.conexant.com and www.mindspeed.com4311 Jamboree Road, M01-001, Newport Beach CA 92660e-mail: margaret.paulin@conexant.comConexant’s personal networking business is focused on wirelesscommunications, digital infotainment and personal computingproducts that are used in mobile communications and broadbandaccess markets. Mindspeed, a Conexant business, focuses onInternet infrastructure products.

e.Digital Corporationwww.edig.comBeth Bell13114 Evening Creek Drive S., San Diego, CA 92128e-mail: betch@edig.com; fax: (858) 748-6894Join our team of highly qualified engineers in an excitingenvironment developing new technology for the emerging portabledigital device market.

General Atomics (GA)www.ga.com3550 General Atomics Ct., San Diego, CA 92121Karin Nowak, SPHRtel: (858) 455-3328; cell: (858) 442-3803; fax: (858) 455-2232GA specializes in diversified research, manufacturing anddevelopment in energy, defense and other advancedtechnologies, many for environmentally sensitive applications.

HNC Software Inc.www.hnc.com5935 Cornerstone Court West, San Diego, CA 92115e-mail: cooljobs@hnc.comProviding advanced software solutions worldwide to help makeintel l igent, automated decisions to manage customerrelationships. Technical and management positions available.

Hughes Network Systemswww.hns.com/careers/careers.htme-mail: recruitersd@hns.comHughes Network Systems (HNS), The Broadband Company, is theleader in the definintion, design and deployment of next-generation, high-speed satellite delivery systems. We are alwayslooking for talented engineers (RF, SW, VLSE, DSP, HW).

Information Systems Laboratorieswww.islinc.comInformations Systems Laboratories (ISL) is a science and engineer-ing innovator in the fields of advanced sensors, adaptive signal pro-cessing and feedback control systems. ISL supplies critical, timely,high quality solutions and products to meet the needs of commer-cial and government customers.

Nokia Mobile Phoneswww.nokia.com/careers12278 Scripps Summit Drive, San Diego, CA 92131e-mail: sandiego.resumes@nokia.com; fax: (858) 831-6502Attract the brightest minds, then set them free. That’s the simplephilosophy behind the enormous success of NOKIA Mobile Phones,the world leader in mobile communications.

ORINCON Corporationwww.orincon.com9363 Towne Centre Dr., San Diego, CA 92121e-mail: resumes@orincon.comORINCON is a provider of signal processing, digital imaging and infor-mation assurance solutions for defense and commercial applications.

Prisa Networks, Inc.www.prisa.com6620 Mesa Ridge Rd, Ste 200, San Diego, CA 92121e-mail: jobs@prisa.com; fax: (858) 677-9099Prisa Networks is an independent OEM supplier of network manage-ment software for System Area and Storage Area Networks (SANs).

Rincon Research Corporationwww.rincon.come-mail: levine@rincon.com; fax: (520) 519-4755Seeking FPGA designer familar with DSP technology; with practi-cal FPGA implementation experience using VHDL\Verilog and simu-lation/synthesis tools.

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Science ApplicationsInternational Corporation (SAIC)www.saic.come-mail: jobs@saic.com; fax: (858) 826-7702SAIC, a diversified high technology research and engineering com-pany, offers a broad range of expertise in technology developmentand analysis, computer system development and integration, andtechnical support services.

Silicon Wavewww.siliconwave.com6155 Greenwich Drive, Ste. 200, San Diego, CA 92122e-mail: jobs@siliconwave.com; fax: (858) 453-3332Silicon Wave designs and produces RF communication systemcomponents that consistently deliver superior user experience. Prod-ucts include baseband, radio moden and software solutions forBluetooth wireless communications and a complete line of silicontuners for cable modems and digital set-top boxes.

Sony Technology Center-San Diegowww.sonyjobs.com16450 West Bernardo Drive, MZ 5000, San Diego, CA 92127e-mail: Jobs@am.sony.com; fax: (877) 822-8703Sony Technology Center-San Diego boasts more than 15 differentbusinesses in the areas of television, computers and digitaltechnology. We offer a wide range of engineering positions to supportour operations.

TRWwww.trw.comHuman ResourcesOne Rancho Carmel, San Diego, CA 92128e-mail: RSD.resumes@trw.com; fax: (858) 592-3108TRW’s Radio Systems Division is a leader in the design ofadvanced wireless communications. Opportunities for graduatingelectrical and computer engineers.

Unisys Corporationwww.unisys.comUnisys Corporation is a global team of 37,000 professionals. Weintegrate services, platforms and network infrastructure for e-business solutions.

ViaSat, Inc.www.viasat.com6155 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA 92009e-mail: careers@viasat.com; fax: (781) 663-8575ViaSat produces advanced digital satellite telecommunicationsand wireless signal processing equipment for commercial andgovernment markets. Other locations include: Atlanta, GA andClarksburg, MD.

WJ Communications, Inc.www.wj.com406 River Oaks Parkway, San José, CA 95134e-mail: staffing@wj.com; fax: (408) 577-6624WJ Communications is a premier supplier of RF and optical fibercommunications products. Career opportunities available forelectrical, mechanical and manufacturing engineers.