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Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions. Illustration by Fangzhou Zhao

Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions. Illustration by Fangzhou Zhao, Van de Walle group.

Sep 06, 2024
Jim Speck Wins Vannevar Bush Award

The $3-million award will enable investigation of little-understood physics in gallium-nitride devices.

Arnab Pal

Arnab Pal, the only student in the Americas and one of only three world-wide to receive this fellowship from the IEEE EDS.

Sep 05, 2024
Exploiting Atomically Thin Materials for Energy-efficient Electronics

UCSB doctoral graduate receives one of three such prizes awarded world-wide.

Source: UCSB Current
ExFAB staff and senior participants from UC Santa Barbara

NSF ExFAB BioFoundry staff and senior participants from UC Santa Barbara (l to r) - Oliver Vining, Elaine Kirschke, Jean-Marie Volland, Nathalie Elisabeth, Sherylle Mills Englander, Max Wilson, Michelle O'Malley, Joel Rothman, Niels Volkmann, Carolyn Mills.

Aug 28, 2024
UCSB to Lead $22M NSF-Funded Center on Exceptional Microbes

UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, and Cal Poly Pomona receive a six-year, $22 million grant to establish a first-of-its-kind biofoundry.  

A slide at DEF CON announcing Shellphish as a $2 million semifinal winner.

A slide was shown at DEF CON announcing Shellphish as a semifinalist and a winner of $2 million. 

Aug 22, 2024
Success in DARPA Cyberdefense Competition Nets Team a Trip to the Finals — and $2 Million

The team was one of seven (from a field of forty-two) to emerge from the semifinal round.

Yangying Zhu (right), assistant professor in the UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department, receives her award certificate from ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Evelyn Wang at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C.

Yangying Zhu (right), assistant professor in the UCSB  Mechanical Engineering Department, receives her award certificate from ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Evelyn Wang at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C.

Aug 19, 2024
A Major Award for Desalination Research

Yangying Zhu is named one of the first 13 academics to receive a new IGNIITE grant.

A microscopy image showing muscle fibers of heard myocardium

A microscopy image showing muscle fibers of heard myocardium

Aug 07, 2024
The Beat Goes On

Beth Pruitt’s lab develops new software to accelerate studies of cells responsible for heart contractions.

Jackson State student KC Sims (right) works alongside mentor Aria Ghasemizadeh, a UCSB PhD student, during her summer internship as part of the NSF-funded Partnership for Research and Education in Materials Science.

Jackson State student KC Sims (right) works alongside mentor Aria Ghasemizadeh, a UCSB PhD student, during her summer internship as part of the NSF-funded Partnership for Research and Education in Materials Science.

Aug 07, 2024
Partners with a Purpose

The National Science Foundation awards millions of dollars to two partnerships involving UC Santa Barbara.

 

Jonathan Balkind (center) and student co-lead authors (from left), Isaac Hair and Guillem López-Paradis with the poster of the paper they presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture.

Jonathan Balkind (center) and student co-lead authors (from left), Isaac Hair and Guillem López-Paradis with the poster of the paper they presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture.

Aug 01, 2024
A Novel Approach to Moving Huge Data Sets for Machine Learning

Could a cart on tracks be used to speed drives across a data center? Balkind-lab researchers investigate.

This image shows a DNA molecule that is methylated on both strands on the center cytosine. DNA methylation plays an important role for epigenetic gene regulation in development and cancer

This image shows a DNA molecule that is methylated on both strands on the center cytosine. DNA methylation plays an important role for epigenetic gene regulation in development and cancer

Aug 01, 2024
Keeping the Faith

UCSB researchers develop novel technique to determine how faithfully DNA modifications are copied from one cell generation to the next.

James B. Rawlings, UCSB chemical engineering professor

UCSB chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has received the nation's highest honor for education in chemical engineering. 

Jul 30, 2024
Excellence in Education

Chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has received the nation's highest honor in chemical engineering for education.

An image of fireflies in Thailand.

The luminescence of fireflies in Thailand, photographed with a long exposure, are one expression of synchrony in nature. 

Jul 29, 2024
Rhythms of Nature

Francesco Bullo, Kerem Çamsari, and colleagues seek to understand synchrony in oscillatory systems.

Source: UCSB Current
Kerem Çamsari (left) and Shaila Niazi

P-bit pros: Kerem Çamsari (left) and third-year PhD student Shaila Niazi, who used p-bits to create images that were not part of a machine-learning training data set.

Jul 22, 2024
A Probabilistic Certainty

Kerem Çamsari's lab has proven the value of an old algorithm in training deep-learning models for AI.

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