faculty

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Online Courses (Graduate Level)

Summer 2008

Engineering Online Faculty

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.

Richard D. Wesel, PhD is a Professor with the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. He joined UCLA in 1996 after receiving his Ph.D.in electrical engineering from Stanford. His B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering are from MIT. After graduating from MIT in 1989 he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories until he left to attend Stanford in 1991. His research is in the area of communication theory with particular interest in channel coding. In 1998 he was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to pursue research on robust and rate-compatible coded modulation. He received an Okawa Foundation award in 1999 for research in information and telecommunications, and he received the 2000 TRW Excellence in Teaching Award from the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science. Since 1999 he has been an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications in the area of coding. He has authored or co-authored over seventy conference and journal publications. Professor Wesel currently serves as Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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.

Nasr M. Ghoniem, Ph.D. is a professor with the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department. He has been a distinguished professor with UCLA since 1977. In 1971 he was awarded his B. Sc. in Nuclear Engineering, he attended McMaster University, Canada. He recieved his M. Eng, Engineering Physics and his M.S., Nuclear Engineering, respectively in 1974 and 1975. Lastly, he was bestowed a Ph.D., in Nuclear Engineering in 1977. The awards and recognitions he's recieved include: 2006 University of California Distinguished Professor, 2006 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2004 General Chair, Second International Conference on Multi-scale Modeling of Materials (MMM-2), 2000 Royal Society of London Kan Tong Po Visiting Professorship in Hong Kong, 1999 Research Fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 1998 Outstanding Achievement Award of American Nuclear Society.