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Photo of Assistant Professor Nina Miolane and her research group.

Oct 10, 2023
An NSF Early CAREER Award to Advance Geometric AI for Imaging Sciences

Nina Miolane develops geometric statistics and geometric deep learning for imaging sciences.

Assistant Professor Enoch Yeung

Oct 10, 2023
An NSF Early CAREER Award to Study DNA Dynamics and Gene Transcription

Enoch Yeung seeks to visualize gene transcription and surrounding patterns of DNA supercoiling

Image of a test setup to illustrate wifi reading through walls

Sep 12, 2023
WiFi Can Read Through Walls

Yasamin Mostofi's lab develops a new technique to tackle a tough technological problem.

Source: UCSB Current
Illustration showing an artist's conceptual rendering of a quantum magnetometer on a chip. Illustration by Brian Long

Aug 31, 2023
Major NSF Funding to Pursue Quantum-scale Sensor Technologies

Collaborative grant aimed at making quantum technologies real.

UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering major Jessy Gonzalez explains his summer research project during a poster session sponsored by the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP).

Aug 21, 2023
An Inspiring Summer

Dozens of undergraduate students presented their summer research projects and reflected on their academic and personal growth.

A plastic detergent bottle could be turned into detergent.

Aug 16, 2023
Improved Catalytic Method Turns Plastic Waste into Raw Material

UCSB chemical engineer Susannah Scott's method gives single-use plastics a second life.

Source: UCSB Current
Concept illustration depicting the trap-assisted Auger-Meitner process at a calcium substitutional impurity (blue) in a gallium nitride crystal lattice (green and silver spheres). An incoming electron (red) gets trapped in a localized state (purple), and its energy is transferred to another electron. Illustration by Fangzhou Zhao.

Aug 02, 2023
Computational Materials Group Identifies Major Loss Mechanism in LEDs

Research at UC Santa Barbara reveals how a phenomenon first discovered 100 years ago impacts state-of-the-art devices.

 

Artist's concept illustration of a stack of heterogenous materials like that used in this project. Illustration by Brian Long

Jul 27, 2023
Going Vertical to Advance a New Realm of High-Precision PICs

3D integration of monolithic and heterogeneous layers allows the Bowers lab to achieve an important milestone. 

UC Santa Barbara’s Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) has received its seventh consecutive major grant from the National Science Foundation.

Jun 29, 2023
Seven for Seven

The Materials Research Laboratory received its seventh consecutive major grant from the National Science Foundation.

Computer science assistant professor Misha Sra.

Jun 29, 2023
An NSF Early CAREER Award for AI researcher Misha Sra

The UCSB computer science assistant professor is using AI to make all kinds of learning accessible.

Jun 22, 2023
PhD Student Designs, Builds a Better Optical Link


Holistic co-design of photonics, electronics, and packaging enables faster, more-efficient data transfer.

Leeta team members, Kira Wyckoff (left)) and Linus Kautzsch (far right), with their advisor Ram Seshadri

Jun 01, 2023
Leeta Wins UCSB's 24th Annual New Venture Competition

The team received $12,000 in prizes for their novel manufacturing process to produce high-demand battery materials.

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