Who is Henry Samueli? (In case you're wondering)

Colleges & Universities University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>Here’s something to distract everyone from all the mindnumbing decision-waiting (although most engineering applicants have heard already, but oh well).</p>

<p>The more I read about Henry Samueli, the more interesting the guy becomes. Here’s a little information about him in case you’re wondering and you’ve been too lazy to dig some of it up.</p>

<p>If you’ve recently been admitted to the UCLA engineering school, you’ll know he must have something to do with it since it bears his name. In 1999, he made a $30 million donation to the school, from which he also holds his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering.</p>

<p>What you may or may not also know is that the UCI school of engineering also bears his name! He made a donation to the UCI school simultaneously with the UCLA donation, this time of $20 million. Since then, he (and his wife Susan) have made an additional $5.7 million donation to the UCI School of Medicine.</p>

<p>So why all this love for the UC system? Well, he is the co-founder of Broadcom, an Irvine-based supplier of broadband ICs and semiconductors that has an annual revenue of about $2.7 billion. He’s listed as a professor in the EE departments of both UCLA and UCI, and he’s also on the Board of Trustees of the UCI Foundation.</p>

<p>He also was the one who bought the Mighty Ducks from Disney last year. Forbes estimates him to be worth $1.8 billion, even though other estimates I’ve read put it as high as 10 (this depends a lot on how you calculate someone’s net worth).</p>

<p>I think Samueli is a testament to the brilliance of what the UC can produce. Lots of people know his name, but I suspect few know much about him. As for me, I’ve already been admitted to UCI as a Regents’ scholar and am hopeful for the word from UCLA in the next several days (the LS major I listed resides in the College, incidentally, although I may end up taking some courses from the engineering department (Cybernetics perchance?) or transfer althogether if I attend), and although I’m not 100% sure if I’ll be at a UC in the fall, if I do, it’s good to know that I’ll be in good company (or at least its shadow).</p>

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<p>When I was a freshman, I actually didn’t know much about Henry Samueli, until I decided to research Broadcom when they were recruiting UCLA grads at a career fair:
<a href=“http://www.broadcom.com/company/keyexec_samueli.php[/url]”>http://www.broadcom.com/company/keyexec_samueli.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Henry Samueli, Ph.D.</p>

<p>Chief Technical Officer
Chairman of the Board of Directors</p>

<p>Dr. Henry Samueli is Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Broadcom Corporation. The Office of the CTO is responsible for driving the vision of Broadcom’s research and development activities as well as helping coordinate corporate-wide engineering development strategies. Dr. Samueli has over 25 years of experience in the fields of communications systems engineering and digital signal processing.</p>

<p>Dr. Samueli has served as CTO since the Company’s inception in August 1991. He served as Co-Chairman from August 1991 until May 2003 and Chairman since May 2003. He also served as Vice President of Research & Development from August 1991 until March 2003. Since 1985 Dr. Samueli has been a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he has supervised advanced research programs in broadband communications circuits and digital signal processing, and he has published over 100 technical papers in these areas. Dr. Samueli has been on a leave of absence from UCLA since 1995. Dr. Samueli was the Chief Scientist and one of the founders of PairGain Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the digital subscriber line (DSL) industry, and he consulted for PairGain from 1988 to 1994. From 1980 until 1985 Dr. Samueli was employed in various engineering management positions in the Electronics and Technology Division of TRW, Inc., where he was responsible for the development of military broadband communications systems.</p>

<p>Dr. Samueli received a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a named inventor in 22 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.</p>

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<p>if you want to look up some one interesting, look up the other cofounder of broadcom, henry t nicholls. i use to see that guy at the gym all the time, he can bench press over 300 lbs, and he was even in mens health magazine. hes an enginerd ,too.</p>

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<p>He also donated lots to my temple b/c both he and his broadcom partner had been members forever. </p>

<p>I knew his daughters before they became magically rich. One was very sweet. The other was wretchedly horrible to everyone. I imagine billions of dollars didn’t make her any nicer. But it’s cool that her dad has been fairly philanthropic.</p>

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<p>Henry Samueli’s Life Advice: be a bioengineering major!</p>

<p>I’m pretty much a failure since I’m poli sci but for those of you who can handle science, biotech is “where it is at”</p>

<p>(He’s my dad’s boss, hence the life plans talk we had)</p>