![prof Jonathan Fan](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-05/news-jonfan-sq.jpg?itok=-tHvZrFw)
Jonathan Fan wins 2019 Okawa Foundation Research Grant
His research focuses on nanoplasmonic platforms.
![Team Empathy](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-05/news-intro-sem-sq.jpg?itok=CZtfk1et)
Introductory Seminars Excellence Award bestowed on "Team Empathy"
Working with students, academics, journalists, and filmmakers they designed a solution to address root causes of why students are not informed about important global issues.
![prof Eric Pop](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-05/news-Pop-sq_0.jpg?itok=KWzZHIa7)
Eric Pop featured in the People Behind the Science Podcast
The episode is titled, "Engineering Novel Solutions for Data Storage and Energy Management in Electronics"
![prof Srabanti Chowdhury](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-05/news-srabanti-sq.jpg?itok=1_IgH_zd)
Srabanti Chowdhury awarded the Gabilan Faculty Fellowship
She joins a group of faculty whose aim is to support faculty in sciences and engineering.
![prof Mendel Rosenblum](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-05/news-mendel-sq.jpg?itok=kv0OTZkt)
Mendel Rosenblum awarded the Inaugural ACM Charles P. Thacker Breakthrough Award
The award recognizes his fundamental contributions that enabled cloud computing
![prof Balaji Prabhakar](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-05/news-balaji-sq.jpg?itok=sdcD_fii)
Merging technologies enable a new era of high-speed, next-generation finance
Balaji’s research accelerates the timeframe for securities trading.
![EE376A](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-05/news-ee376a-sq.jpg?itok=QG45vPBs)
Information Science & Engineering Night at Elementary School
Students from EE376A collaborated with local school to share interactive games, activities and performances that related to communication, measurement, and representation of information.
![prof Jelena Vučković](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-05/news-jela-moq-sq.jpg?itok=IiMIBmbc)
Prof Jelena Vuckovic named MPQ Distinguished Scholar
Jelena has been awarded the 2019 Distinguished Scholar of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics - please join us in acknowledging her groundbreaking contributions!
![prof Tsachy Weissman](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-05/news-tsachyB-sq.jpg?itok=ZnrWmEi7)
Human compressed images superior to machine-compressed images
Prof. Tsachy Weissman’s lab is improving the algorithm based on people's preference of how an image is compressed.
![awesome EE staff](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-05/news-staff-march-sq.jpg?itok=v6V-Leif)
EE Staff Awards, March ‘19
Five EE staff recognized for their extraordinary work.