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College of Engineering News

An image of the Shellphish team after making it through the semifinal round a year ago.

Jun 26, 2025
Shellphish Submits ARTIPHISHELL to the Final Round of the DARPA AI Cyber Competition

After two years and several rounds of competition, the hacking collective aims for the $4 million first prize.

Jun 26, 2025
A UCSB Research Team Wins IEEE Best-Paper Award

The breakthrough results could pave the way for higher-performing, lower-cost wireless systems.

An illustration of a graph depicting hysteresis loops in magnets.

Jun 26, 2025
A New Look at Soft Magnets

A model developed by a UCSB PhD student takes a multi-physics approach to identifying promising new materials.

Artist's concept illustration addressing heat and charge

Jun 25, 2025
Coupled Electrons and Phonons Predicted to Flow like Water in 2D Semiconductors

An unfavorable condition in 3D semiconductor materials may be beneficial in 2D semiconductors.

Image of Ram Seshadri

Jun 23, 2025
A LEAP Forward for AI–enabled Materials Research

UC-funded project is aimed at accelerating materials discovery for more efficient computing.

Jun 12, 2025
College of Engineering Named for Former Dean Robert Mehrabian

During his tenure, from 1983-1990, the fourth engineering dean at UCSB was responsible for major growth and advancement of the relatively young college. 

Microchips produced in the Nanofab aren't yet ready to be used in prototypes and system demonstrations; they need to be enclosed in protective casings, have wires attached, and be attached to circuit boards, all of which is known as "packaging" the chips.

May 28, 2025
Uplifting the Local Semiconductor Industry

UC Santa Barbara receives key funding for facility to unlock the full potential of the region’s semiconductor ecosystem.

Into the data tunnel: Nina Miolane (left) just before her MRI, which generated data for the project. With her are (center) PhD student Hannah Grotzinger and (right) lab technician Kaya Jordan, both from the Ann S. Bowers women’s brain-health initiative.

May 22, 2025
Leveraging AI to Study Women’s Brains During and After Pregnancy

Nina Miolane is developing an innovative tool for real-time monitoring.

Image of (from left) Tresa Pollock, B. S. Manjunath, and Beth Pruitt.

May 20, 2025
Grant Supports Advances in Cyberinfrastructure for Multimodal Imaging Data

The interdisciplinary collaboration is aimed at integrating AI and LLM functionality into the UCSB BisQue Platform.

 

A photograph of Arpit Gupta

May 14, 2025
A CAREER Award to Democratize Advanced Network Management Technology

Not all networks are created equal. Arpit Gupta would like to treat them as if they were.

Concept illustration depicting entangled photons

May 12, 2025
Quantum Entangled Photons on Demand

Using photonics to generate  efficient, robust,  stable sources of entangled photon pairs.

Source: The Current
In patients with Alzheimer's disease, tau proteins (shown in light blue) misfold and accumulate inside brain cells. By making a synthetic version of these proteins, researchers aim to better understand disease.

May 08, 2025
Unfolding the Mystery of Neurodegenerative Disease

First synthetic ‘mini prion’ shows how protein misfolding multiplies, enabling study of fundamental interactions that underlie neurodegenerative disease.

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