UCLA Electrical Engineering

Professor Subramanian Iyer was featured as an invited speaker at the 2026 Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research (BETR) Symposium held at University of California, Berkeley as part of the Field Effect Transistor 100-Year Celebration. Iyer participated in the Heterogeneous Integration & Packaging session, joining leading experts from academia and industry to discuss advances in semiconductor packaging and AI hardware technologies.

The UCLA Integrated Sensors Laboratory, directed by Professor Aydin Babakhani, has been selected to participate in a major $8.1 million U.S. Space Force initiative led by Rice University under the Strategic Technology Institute 4 (SSTI-4) program.

As part of the Center for Advanced Space Sensing Technologies (CASST), a multi-institutional consortium, the UCLA team will lead the development of advanced millimeter-wave and terahertz (mm-wave/THz) sensing technologies aimed at next-generation space domain awareness.

The effort focuses on creating highly integrated, low-power sensing systems capable of operating in complex orbital environments, enabling improved detection, monitoring, and characterization of objects in space. Leveraging UCLA’s strengths in high-frequency integrated circuits, sensor miniaturization, and intelligent signal processing, the Integrated Sensors Laboratory will play a key role in translating cutting-edge research into deployable sensing platforms aligned with U.S. Space Force mission needs.