2 UCLA professors elected to the National Academy of Engineering

From the UCLA Newsroom: Two faculty members from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering — Aydogan Ozcan and Lixia Zhang — have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors granted to American engineers.

Ozcan and Zhang are among 128 members and 22 international members elected today in recognition of their outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice and education.

Aydogan Ozcan

Ozcan, who holds the Volgenau Chair in Engineering Innovation, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering. He was elected to the academy for his “contributions to mobile sensing and telepathology for medical diagnostics.” ...

Lixia Zhang

Zhang, a distinguished professor of computer science who holds the Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Networks, has been an influential researcher for more than three decades in the architecture, performance and security of the internet and its connected devices. She was elected to the academy for her “development of internet protocols which significantly impacted internet quality and performance, and for leadership in setting standards.” ...

Full story at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-faculty-elected-to-national-academy-of-engineering-2025.