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College of Engineering News

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.

An image of the Arcana cover, a wizard ready to do battle.

May 13, 2025
Journey to Arcana: A Student Team Creates UCSB’s First Major Game

Undergraduates in the Gaucho Game Lab persevered to complete the first RPG to come out of UCSB.

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
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May 08, 2025
Finalists Announced for 2025 New Venture Competition Finals

The six teams will compete for thousands of dollars in prize money during the NVC Finals on Thursday, May 22.

Headshot of Yuheng Bu

May 08, 2025
Q & A With New COE Faculty: Yuheng Bu

The new assistant professor of computer science develops theoretically grounded learning algorithms to improve the fairness and reliability of AI systems.

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.

Image of Christopher Kruegel (left) and B. S. Manjunath

Apr 28, 2025
Two of Three Outstanding Graduate Mentor Awards Go to COE Professors

B. S. Manjunath and Christopher Kruegel are recognized for their outstanding support of students.

A four-image panel showing The Digital Pottery Wheel (DPW) is a ceramic throwing wheel that is augmented with a clay 3D printing mechanism and a modular control platform (upper left). Through this mechanism-and-control approach, the wheel supports standard manual ceramics throwing (upper right), autonomous 3D printing (lower left), and integration of manual manipulation and 3D printing in the same vessel (lower right).

Apr 23, 2025
An NSF Early CAREER Award for Digital Design and Fabrication

Jennifer Jacobs is using her award to add control and flexibility to the burgeoning field of 3D printing.

Image of assistant professor Murphy Niu

Apr 22, 2025
Murphy Niu Receives NSF CAREER Award

The computer science assistant professor and physicist is pursuing her vision for a new quantum-computing paradigm.

Image of Elizabeth Murphy, winner of the 2025 Henkel Award

Apr 21, 2025
Elizabeth Murphy Honored with 2025 Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research

The UCSB PhD student is honored for her exceptional work in developing a versatile strategy to accelerate the discovery of block copolymers. 

2025 Connie Frank Fellowship recipients (left to right) Renata Dos Reis Marques, Gabriela Villapando Torres, Gianna Gathman

Apr 16, 2025
Recognizing Research Potential

Engineering graduate students awarded fellowships to further investigate cardiac disease, fibrosis, and tissue self-regeneration.

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