Honors & Awards

Selected Awards

2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award
2019 US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) [White House] [UCSD News]
2019 ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award
2018 Qualcomm Fellow Mentor Award
2016 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2014 Charles and Ellen Wilts Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Electrical Engineering, Caltech
2017
2018 Best Graduate Teaching Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego
2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Mentoring Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego

Student Awards

2017 IEEE ICASSP Best Student Paper Award (First Position) — Heng Qiao
2018 Shannon Graduate Fellowship — Heng Qiao
2018 Qualcomm Fellow-Mentor-Advisor Fellowship — Student Fellow: Heng Qiao
2019 Best Student Paper Award (First Position), IEEE CAMSAP — Mehmet Can Hucumenoglu and Pulak Sarangi
2020 Finalist, Student Paper Contest, IEEE SAM — Pulak Sarangi
2020 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist (QIF) — Pulak Sarangi
2022 Outstanding Article in Signal Processing, Frontiers in Signal Processing, for “Beamspace ESPRIT for mmWave Channel Sensing: Performance Analysis and Beamformer Design”. Student authors: Pulak Sarangi and Sina Shahsavari. Also highlighted in Frontiers in Signal Processing Editors’ Choice 2022.