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Materials PhD students Tanay Tak (left) and Bailey Rhodes, 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows

May 24, 2023
Investments in Innovation

Pair of materials PhD students win prestigious fellowships from the Department of Defense.

 
UCSB postdoctoral researcher Chen Shang

May 16, 2023
Recognizing Innovation

A UCSB postdoctoral scholar earns international recognition for his innovative research.

May 08, 2023
Finalists Announced for 2023 New Venture Competition Finals

The six teams will compete for thousands of dollars in prize money during the NVC Finals  on Thursday, May 25.

From left to right: Ambuj Singh, Christopher Kruegel, Joao Hespanha, Giovanni Vigna

May 04, 2023
UCSB to Lead NSF-Funded Research Institute for Next-Level AI-Powered Cybersecurity

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).

Source: The Current
An illustration of six devices built on 2D platforms in the Banerjee lab to support next-generation information processing and storage.

Apr 11, 2023
Can 2D Materials Enable Beyond-Moore's-Law Electronics?

New devices from Kaustav Banerjee’s lab show promise for next-generation information processing and storage.

Photgraph of assistant professor Johanthan Balkind.

Mar 20, 2023
Jonathan Balkind Receives NSF Early CAREER Award to Go Faster in the Cloud

He plans to use microarchitectural checkpointing to redesign processors to improve cloud-based computing.

NASA image of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina, as seen from the International Space Station on Feb 21, 2012

Mar 17, 2023
Quantum Sensing in Outer Space

New NASA-funded research will build next-gen tech to better measure climate

Source: UCSB Current
Image of a goat, which, like other ruminants, host anaerobic microbes that can break through tough plant cell walls to gain the nutrition behind them.

Mar 15, 2023
Deconstructing Lignin

Researchers prove that tough, woody lignin can be broken down in an anaerobic environment.

Source: UCSB Current
The image shows a hybrid computer where analog p-bits using magnetic nanodevices are combined with digital p-bits that will be used for energy-efficient machine learning discussed in the article.

Feb 02, 2023
An Intermediate Solution?

Kerem Çamsari has received an Early CAREER Award to develop probabilistic computing, which could be an important step on the way to quantum computers. 

Professor Beth Pruitt, Chair Biological Engineering, UCSB.

Dec 16, 2022
A BRITE Future for Research on Heart-Cell Resilience

Beth Pruitt receives a five-year NSF award to study sex-differentiated heart-cell responses to stress.

An illustration depicting a resonator ring sitting on a photon-generating defect in a 2D material, and associated waveguides.

Dec 15, 2022
Shedding Light on Quantum Photonics

The Moody lab develops a new method for on-chip generation of single photons. 

Laser light glows on the surface of a photonics chip. Photograph by Matt Perko

Dec 05, 2022
Extending the Spectrum

Researchers create visible-to-near-infrared-light lasers on silicon chips, paving the way for scientific and consumer applications

Source: UCSB Current

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