UCSB Engineering

Hua Lee

Professor

Contacts

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

tel: (805) 893-4480
fax: (805) 893-3262
hualee@ece.ucsb.edu

Biography

Prior to his return to UCSB in 1990, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests cover the areas of imaging system optimization, high-performance image formation algorithms, synthetic-aperture radar and sonar systems, acoustic microscopy, microwave nondestructive evaluation, and dynamic vision systems. His research laboratory was the first to produce the holographic and tomographic reconstructions from a scanning laser acoustic microscope, and his research team is also known as the leader in pulse-echo microwave nondestructive evaluation of civil structures and materials.

Awards/Honors

• Nineteenth Pattern Recognition Society Award, 1993
• Professor of the Year, Mortar Board National Honor Society, 1992
• Fellow, IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation