Elaheh Ahmadi, who earned her PhD in the lab of Umesh Mishra, now dean of The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, returned to campus this past July as a mid-career professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. Previously, she held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and UC Los Angeles, following a period of postdoctoral research in the labs of Mishra and UCSB materials professor James Speck.