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Yangying Zhu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UC Santa Barbara

Mechanical engineering assistant professor Yangying Zhu has received a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. 

Oct 24, 2023
Among the Best and Brightest

Mechanical engineering assistant professor Yangying Zhu to investigate a promising cooling method for high-performance devices.

UCSB's Computer Science Department launched a new program to help students from underrepresented communities navigate the PhD application process

UCSB's Computer Science Department launched a new program to help students from underrepresented communities navigate the PhD application process. 

Oct 23, 2023
Computer Science Launches Initiative to Help Underrepresented PhD Applicants

Student-led program will support students from underserved and marginalized communities. 

Kerem Çamsarı and his PhD student, Navid Anjum Aadit, received a Bronze Medal during the Bell Labs Prize Competition

Kerem Çamsarı (second from the left) and his PhD student, Navid Anjum Aadit (second from the right), received a Bronze Medal during the Bell Labs Prize Competition. 

Oct 18, 2023
ECE Professor and PhD Student Win Bronze Medal at Bell Labs Prize Competition

Çamsarı and Aadit received the Bronze Medal and a $25,000 prize for their project, “Probabilistic Computing with p-bits: From Concept to Supremacy.” 

Image of a micro-electronic circuit board

Oct 18, 2023
CHIPS Act Funding to Fuel Microelectronic Technology Research

UCSB joins a federally sponsored regional innovation hub to help bolster microelectronics technology.

Assistant Professor Enoch Yeung

Assistant Professor Enoch Yeung's Early CAREER Award will allow him to further study how the phenomena of DNA supercoiling and writhing affect gene transcription. Photograph by Lilli McKinney

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

Photo of Assistant Professor Nina Miolane and her research group.

Assistant Professor Nina Miolane (third from left) and members of her research group (from left): Sophia Sanborn, Adele Myers, Francisco Acosta, Bongjin Koo, Mathilde Papillon. Photograph by Lilli McKinney

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.

Image of a test setup to illustrate wifi reading through walls

The setup in Mostofi lab used to demonstrate how wifi can be used to image still objects through a wall.

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

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).

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.

The method can allow empty detergent bottles to be made 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.

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

Artist's concept illustration depicting a stack of heterogenous materials similar those 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. 

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