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CONVERGENCE ISSUE 34 IS HERE

Read the summer 2024 issue of UCSB's magazine of engineering and the sciences online.
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CELEBRATING THE CLASS OF 2024

COE celebrates the Class of 2024! Read about this year's award winners and download a commemorative program
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A LOW-CARBON FUTURE STARTS AT IEE

UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) is a world leader in developing energy-saving breakthroughs. Watch this video to learn more the past, current, and future research endeavors by our collaborative researchers.
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HIRING THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST

UCSB ranks first among public universities in the percentage of assistant professors in engineering and sciences who have received NSF Early CAREER awards between 2017-'22.
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IMPACTING INNOVATION

UCSB has ranked among the world's top two public universities for scientific impact of research in engineering and physical sciences for the past thirteen years. (Leiden Rankings, 2011-2023)
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Top Stories

Michael Beyeler, assistant professor and 2024-'25 Plous Award recipient

Michael Beyeler, assistant professor and 2024-'25 Plous Award recipient

Outstanding Contributions

Assistant professor Michael Beyeler is selected for the highly regarded Harold J. Plous Memorial Award.

Tinish Bhattacharya in his lab

Tinish Bhattacharya pauses for a moment in his UCSB lab.

Innovative Hardware for Rapidly Solving High-order Optimization Problems

PhD student leads development of architecture to compute high-degree polynomial gradients in-memory.

Artist's concept illustration of a photonic memory array. Illustration by Brian Long

Artist's concept illustration of a photonic memory array. Illustration by Brian Long

A New Optical Memory Platform for Super-fast Calculations

An international team develops a faster, more durable optical platform for in-memory computation.

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