Awards & Recognition

Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Zhi Ding is the 39th recipient of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. The donor-funded $80,000 prize, supported by the UC Davis Foundation, is among the largest of its kind in the country.

Materials Today has honored Marina Radulaski, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, with a Rising Star Award for her outstanding research and promise for continued leadership in quantum materials and electronics.

Professor G. R. Branner has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Santa Clara Valley-San Francisco Joint Section Chapter. The honor celebrates his remarkable achievements in advancing RF and microwave education and technologies.

The Universities Space Research Association, or USRA, named Aidan Guerra, a fourth-year mechanical engineering and aerospace science and engineering double major at the University of California, Davis, to the class of 2025 Distinguished Undergraduate Award winners.

The UC Davis biomedical engineering professor has received the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s annual award for outstanding innovation and research contributions in medical imaging science. It is considered one of the highest honors in the field.

Professor Yayoi Takamura’s lab has been named this year’s winner of the Grand Prize for Lab Safety at UC Davis. Undergraduate Lab Manager Bill Doering was also recognized with this quarter’s Safety Star.

UC Davis Ph.D. candidate Nicole O’Shea is forging new discoveries in ternary metal alloys through a fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, while also cultivating community on campus and inspiring peers in the collaborative materials science field.

Comstock’s Magazine highlights The Make Box, an education startup founded by UC Davis electrical and computer engineering alum Kavya Khare, as this month’s promising startup from California’s Capital Region.

The UC Davis team was the top award winner at the 2024-25 CITRIS Aviation Prize competition, earning $12,000 for their innovative design of an intercampus air transportation system for UC students, faculty and staff.

Two teams of electrical and computer engineering students have received top honors for their work at hackathons during the 2025 Design Automation Conference, the leading global conference for chips to systems research.