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The University of California, Los Angeles has received a $2.5 million gift from school alumnus Mukund Padmanabhan to build a new semiconductor lab in Engineering VI, a new building under construction for the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. The donation will be used to build the Mukund Padmanabhan Systems Scaling Technology Laboratory in Engineering VI and will be dedicated to making advances in the performance, cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency of heterogeneously integrated microsystems, including 3-D integrated circuits and assemblies.
Padmanabhan is part of the research team at Renaissance Technologies, a New York-based hedge fund management firm, and is the founder of the Guru Krupa Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides educational opportunities to those who could not otherwise afford it, and assistance to impoverished families and support for cultural and religious organizations in the U.S. and India.
This is the fourth donation Padmanabhan has made to his alma mater, and the largest, an UCLA press release said.
His three previous donations of $500,000 each support the Guru Krupa Foundation fellowships in Electrical Engineering.
Padmanabhan, whose research at UCLA focused on integrated circuits and signal processing, said he was inspired by the school’s continuing commitment to cutting-edge research and engineering education. “I see the quality of the work being done by the students who benefit from the Guru Krupa Foundation fellowships, and I feel very satisfied that research is progressing full speed ahead at UCLA,” said Padmanabhan, who studied electrical engineering at UCLA, earning his master’s degree in 1989 and Ph.D. in 1992. After graduating from UCLA, Padmanabhan joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
