Lara Dolecek, assistant professor in the electrical engineering department at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, was recently announced as the recipient of an Intel Early Career Faculty Award and a UCLA Faculty Career Development Award for academic year 2013-2014. The Intel award was established to help the company connect with the best and brightest early career faculty members at the top universities around the world. In addition to a cash gift, each awardee is also paired up with an Intel peer collaborator to help them network within the company. Dolecek along with other awardees will be honored at an awards ceremony in San Francisco next month.
The UCLA Faculty Career Development Award is a competitive, campus-wide award given to promising assistant professors. Dolecek specializes in signals and systems with a focus on coding and information theory, graphical models, statistical algorithms and combinatorial methods, with applications to emerging systems for data storage, processing and communication.
Last year Dolecek was recognized as an outstanding an early-career faculty member, as well. She won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
