Y. Isukapalli: Outstanding CE Faculty
Graduating seniors in every undergraduate degree program in the College of Engineering recognize a faculty member each spring and the Class of 2025’s COE Outstanding Faculty in Computer Engineering is Professor Yoga Isukapalli
For the seventh year in a row, graduating seniors selected Yoga Isukapalli for the Outstanding Computer Engineering Faculty Award. Isukapalli joined UCSB’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as a tenure-track teaching professor in winter 2017, after several years working as a staff scientist in the Wi-Fi division at Broadcom, a semiconductor manufacturing company.
“Receiving this award from graduating computer engineering seniors motivates me to keep improving my teaching,” said Isukapalli, who also received the university’s 2020-‘21 Distinguished Teaching Award from the Academic Senate.
Isukapalli’s primary role is running the undergraduate capstone program for the Computer Engineering Program. The projects are focused on developing students into professionals by pairing them with industry or academic experts to create an engineered solution for real problems.
“I have enjoyed seeing them mature as professional engineers,” Isukapalli said. “It is truly rewarding to hear that I have made a positive impact on their growth and development as computer engineers. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to their education journey.”
