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College of Engineering News

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Jun 09, 2025
Chris Van de Walle Receives Prestigious Welker Award

It is the latest recognition for his pioneering research on the efficiency of compound semiconductors.

Headshot images of Arturo Juan (left) and Sam Rosen (right)

Jun 09, 2025
Celebrating the LGBTQIA+ Community

The College of Engineering celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community and Pride Month.

image of the wall with signage outside the UCSB Technology Incubator

May 29, 2025
UCSB’s Technology Incubator to Celebrate its Tenth Anniversary

Impressive growth and successful spinouts have characterized the Incubator's first ten years of life.

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.

From left to right, Nico Lehner and Evan McCall, standing outside holding a large check for $10,000

May 28, 2025
RazeMath Wins UCSB’s 26th Annual New Venture Competition

The team received $10,000 in prizes for their AI-powered personalized math tutoring program.

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.

Headshot of Xin (Eric) Wang

May 21, 2025
Q & A With New COE Faculty: Xin (Eric) Wang

The new assistant professor of computer science builds multimodal, embodied AI agents that understand and interact naturally with humans.

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
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.

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