College of Engineering News

Samuel Teicher (left) and George Degen were invited to attend the 70th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Apr 29, 2021

Meeting of the Minds

George Degen and Samuel Teicher are invited to attend an annual meeting with dozens of Nobel Laureates.

Julia Zuo, Dixon-Levy Service Award recipient

Apr 29, 2021

A Catalyst of Change

Materials PhD student Julia Zuo awarded for her efforts to improve graduate student life.

Professors Linda Petzold (left) and Glenn Fredrickson (right) were elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Apr 28, 2021

Two Engineering Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Glenn Fredrickson and Linda Petzold are recognized for their extraordinary scientific achievements.

CoE award winners (left to right) Shabnam Larimian, Yogananda Isukapalli, Timothy Sherwood, Frank Zok

Apr 20, 2021

Recognizing Excellence

Three CoE faculty and one graduate student receive UCSB Academic Senate awards from their peers.

Three computer science assistant professors have received Google Research Scholar Awards, (left to right) Yu Feng, Misha Sra, Yu-Xiang Wang

Apr 16, 2021

Computer Science Faculty Receive Google Research Scholar Awards

They were recognized for projects that could impact future technology use.

Conceptual illustration of AlGaAs-on-insulator integrated quantum photonics devices that would enable chip-scale quantum computing with light (Graphic credit: Lillian McKinney).

Apr 13, 2021

Lighting the Way to Quantum Computers

Galan Moody received a prestigious NSF Early CAREER award to pursue quantum photonics research.

Examples of object hallucination. Captions generated by an AI model with low uncertainty values on left, and higher uncertainty values on the right. Photo credit: Yu Junxiao and William Wang

Apr 05, 2021

Words and Images

William Wang is recognized by NSF and the IEEE for his work to advance the field of natural language processing.

The materials, chemical engineering, electrical, and mechanical engineering graduate programs were all ranked in the top 15 among public institutions.