Faculty

All courses are taught by UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) faculty members. Online lectures are not mere videos of on-campus lectures; rather, they are separately and carefully prepared lectures for the online student.

Lixia Zhang, Ph.D. is a professor with the UCLA Computer Science Department. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. Afterward she joined Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a research staff member. Her work at Xerox PARC included analysis of TCP traffic dynamics, reliable multicast protocols, and designs of Internet integrated services support; the RSVP protocol was conceived and developed as part of this effort. In January 1996, she joined UCLA's Computer Science Department. In 1999, she coined the phrase "Middlebox", referring to the new components that were not in the original IP architecture but popping up in many places (web proxies, firewalls, NAT boxes), the word was quickly picked up by IETF and it is now used in many IETF documentations. Currently, she is tackling resiliency and security issues in the Internet infrastructure, such as the global routing system and Domain Name System (DNS), and the system challenges in deploying cryptographic protections in global scale open systems such as the Internet. She is also serving on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and co-chairing the IRTF Routing Research Group.

Ajit Mal, Ph.D. is a professor with the UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. He attended Calcutta University, 1964. He includes the following as examples of his most recent publications: "Ultrasonic Characterization and Inspection of Open Cell Foams," ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 131(11):1200 - 1208 (2005); "A Conceptual Structural Health Monitoring System Based on Vibration and Wave Propagation," Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal, 4(3):283 - 293 (2005); and "Lamb waves from impact damage in composite plates," Instrumentation—Measure-Metrologie, Special Issue on Ultrasonic Methods for Material Characterization 3, 11–37, 2003.

Vijay Gupta, Ph.D  is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Gupta's research spans mechanical characterization of thin film interfaces, biomechanics, ice mechanics, and composite materials. His work combines both experimental approaches and computer simulation. He has published over 120 journal articles and books, and has made over 200 invited presentations at international conferences, governmental agencies, and companies world-wide. He has chaired numerous international symposia in his field, and has served as a consultant to several top blue chip companies, the United States Department of Defense, and national laboratories in the Europe, Japan and the US.

Kanji Ono, Ph.D  B.Engr. Tokyo Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Northwestern University; Postdoctoral research, Northwestern University; Visiting Professor, International Christian University; Director, Tokyo Study Center, University of California Education Abroad Program; Henry M. Howe Medal, American Society for Metals; Achievement Award, American Society for Nondestructive Testing; Achievement Award and Gold Medal Award, Acoustic Emission Working Group; Editor, Journal of Acoustic Emission.

Mark S. Goorsky, Ph.D, Chair,   B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern; Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, MIT; Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Excellence in Teaching Award (1993) School of Engineering and Applied Science, NSF Career Award (1995).

Daniel Yang, Ph.D  Robotics and mechanisms; CAD/CAM systems, computer controlled machines.  Manufacturing System: Computer integrated machinery; CAD/CAM; Electromechanical system design; Precision machinery; Coordinated Motion Generation .Robotics: Design, Kinematics and dynamics of industrial robots: Robot motion simulation; Task planning; Grippers design. Mechanical Design: Kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms; Large-scale mechanical system design; Machine tool vibration; Machine dynamics.

Kung Yao, Ph.D received the B.S.E. (Highest Honors), M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering -- all from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. During the summers, he has worked at the Princeton-Penn Accelerator, the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Bell Telephone Lab in Murray Hill, N.J. He was a NAS-NRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Presently, he is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA. In 1969, he was a Visiting Assistant Prof. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1973-74, he was a Visiting Associate Prof. at the Eindhoven Technical University. In 1985-1988, he served as an Assistant Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA.

Alan Laub, Ph.D holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. He received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in mathematics from the University of British Columbia in 1969, the M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 1972, and the Ph.D. degree in control sciences from the University of Minnesota in 1974. From 1974 to 1983, he held positions at CWRU, the University of Toronto, MIT, and USC. In 1983 he joined UCSB as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and, from 1989 until 1992, was Chair of the Department. He was a founding Co-Director in 1991 of the Center for Control Engineering and Computation. He became Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Davis in 1996, serving until 2000.