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Yogananda Isukapalli
Teaching Professor and Vice Chair
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Distinguished Teaching Award, UCSB Academic Senate (2020-21); Outstanding Computer Engineering Faculty Award (2018-'19, 2019-'20, 2020-'21, 2021-'22, 2022-'23, 2023-'24); Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award (2020-21)
Research
Isukapalli runs the computer engineering Capstone program, which focuses on developing students into professionals by pairing them with industry or academic experts to create an engineered solution for real-world problems. He joined the department in winter 2017, after several years working as a staff scientist in the Wi-Fi division at a semiconductor manufacturing company.
PhD Communication Theory and Systems, University of California, San Diego