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Shawn Sheng, an Electrical Engineering graduate student advised by Prof. Azita Emami, the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Director, Center for Sensing to Intelligence, has received the 2025 Jakob van Zyl Predoctoral Research Award. This research award has been made possible through generous donations in memory of distinguished EE alum, Dr Jakob van Zyl, who led significant research efforts at JPL and also taught classes at Caltech for many years.

Katie Bouman, Katerina Chatziioannou, and Nick Hutzler receive Presidential Early Career awards.

Georgia Gkioxari, Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering; William H. Hurt Scholar, receives the Large Language Model (LLM) Evaluation Research Grant. The research grant is specifically for academic researchers looking for innovative proposals to build new benchmarks in the areas of general intelligence, emotional intelligence and agentic behaviors for large language models.

Yiyi Cai, a senior in electrical engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship.

The Mirhosseini lab has developed a new on-chip silicon device that can convert photons from the microwave regime into optical photons that can be transmitted long distances at room temperature.