UCSB will serve as the lead in a five-year, $20 million project to establish the Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence OperatioN (ACTION).
College of Engineering News
![From left to right: Ambuj Singh, Christopher Kruegel, Joao Hespanha, Giovanni Vigna](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_thumb_2x/public/images/news/AI_Institute_Team.png?itok=XnTf3RzC&c=1958f4df4a3e6fc68d5c25656d5fcd7a)
From left to right: Ambuj Singh, Christopher Kruegel, Joao Hespanha, Giovanni Vigna; Photo Credit: Matt Perko
May 04, 2023
![Tresa Pollock, interim dean and Alcoa Distinguished Professor of Materials](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_thumb_2x/public/images/news/pollock.jpg?itok=Aiw5soAp)
Tresa Pollock received the 2023 Acta Materialia Gold Medal for her research and leadership.
May 03, 2023
Tresa Pollock becomes first woman to receive one of the most prestigious international honors given to metallurgists.
![Joe Chada, Distinguished Teaching Award recipient](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_thumb_2x/public/images/news/Chada_JOE.jpg?itok=Q5jl2y-3)
Chemical engineering teaching professor Joe Chada is honored for his commitment to student success and teaching. Photograph by Lilli McKinney.
May 01, 2023
Chemical engineering teaching professor Joe Chada is honored for his commitment to student success.
![Photo of Allison Chau](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_thumb_2x/public/images/news/allison-chao-ucsb.jpeg?itok=pj3Vmb_B&c=90ab607d5e44caef15b29301995b59ee)
Allison Chau
Apr 27, 2023
An opportunity to mentor and be mentored for fourth-year doctoral candidate Allison Chau.
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All five UCSB engineering programs evaluated this year ranked among the top 19 at public universities.
Apr 25, 2023
UCSB engineering graduate programs were rated among the best in the nation in U.S. News and World Report's 2023 Graduate School Rankings.
![Chris Palmstrøm and the lab he built to create novel materials.](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_thumb_2x/public/images/news/Chris_Palmstrom_AAAS%20copy.jpg?itok=wWLoivaM&c=daa2a901d5ca832f75f4352f44944aac)
Chris Palmstrøm and the lab he built to create novel materials. Photograph by Lilli McKinney
Apr 18, 2023
With or without an immediate application in sight, this materials researcher explores.
![An illustration of six devices built on 2D platforms in the Banerjee lab to support next-generation information processing and storage.](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_thumb_2x/public/images/news/Devices_Illo_news_0.jpg?itok=SBBcwpuY)
An array of charge-based and non-charge-based devices built with 2D materials may enable next-generation information processing and storage technologies. Four of the most promising devices — the spin-FET and the TFET (both for processing) as well as the FG-FET and the MTJ (both for storage) — are covered in the article. Illustration by Arnab Pal
Apr 11, 2023
New devices from Kaustav Banerjee’s lab show promise for next-generation information processing and storage.
![Graduate Research Fellowship Program by the National Science Foundation](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_thumb_2x/public/images/news/Gradiate_Research_Fellowship.jpeg?itok=BmPfSj1K)
Eight COE students were offered prestigious graduate research fellowships by the National Science Foundation.
Mar 30, 2023
Each of eight COE students will receive three years of financial support totaling nearly $150,000.
![B.S. Manjunath, distinguished professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_thumb_2x/public/images/news/Manjunath_BS.png?itok=NwLVQXSh)
B.S. Manjunath, distinguished professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering
Mar 27, 2023
For his work in the design, development, and deployment of a reproducible scientific-image analytics platform.
![Photo of newly appointed COE dean, Umesh Mishra.](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_thumb_2x/public/images/news/mishra_0.jpg?itok=DL-2vziU&c=0d9ef00470f47056882733a9edede380)
Umesh Mishra, the newly appointed dean of UCSB's College of Engineering.
Mar 22, 2023
The professor of electrical and computer engineering will be the eighth dean in the history of the COE.
![Photgraph of assistant professor Johanthan Balkind.](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_thumb_2x/public/images/news/Balkind_Jonathan_news.jpg?itok=VlNzQ19W&c=daa2a901d5ca832f75f4352f44944aac)
Assistant Professor Johanthan Balkind.
Mar 20, 2023
He plans to use microarchitectural checkpointing to redesign processors to improve cloud-based computing.
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The Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina, as seen from the International Space Station on Feb 21, 2012. Photograph courtesy of NASA
Mar 17, 2023
New NASA-funded research will build next-gen tech to better measure climate
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