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New faculty join the Jacobs School

September 30, 2025

New faculty join the Jacobs School

The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is welcoming six new faculty to its ranks in fall 2025. Full Story


Four undergraduate programs ranked in nation’s Top 10

September 23, 2025

Four undergraduate programs ranked in nation’s Top 10

Four undergraduate programs at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering have been ranked in the nation’s Top 10 in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Colleges ranking Full Story


From Lebanon’s Vineyards to Vision Restoration

September 12, 2025

From Lebanon’s Vineyards to Vision Restoration

Growing up in rural Lebanon, tinkering with cars and working the grape harvest gave professor Shadi Dayeh a hands-on foundation that now informs his innovations in brain mapping and potentially vision-restoring whole-eye transplantation.   Full Story


New AI Tool Learns to Read Medical Images With Far Less Data

August 8, 2025

New AI Tool Learns to Read Medical Images With Far Less Data

Recent work from the group of assistant professor Pengtao Xie was featured on UC San Diego Today.  Full Story



Jiajia Wu, a PhD student from ECE won two awards at the IEEE international Conference

Thrilled to share that our ECE PhD student Jiajia Wu has been honored with two awards at the esteemed IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS)! She received the Best Paper Runner-up Award in BioCAS, as well as the Runner-up Paper Award in WiCAS for their work: A Low-Noise 0.001Hz-1kHz Sample-Level Duty-Cycling Neural Recording System-on-Chip (will be available online soon).

Shaochen Chen

Stojan Radic

The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department traces its roots back to the establishment of the Applied Electrophysics department in 1965, under its founding chair Henry Booker. Through a succession of department realignments emerged today’s ECE in 1987, when the then-combined Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department was split into two departments. Since then, ECE has earned a world-class reputation for producing top-notch engineers for industry and academia.

By the Numbers

$38M+

In Research
Expenditures

17,000+

Alumni

2,200+

Remarkable
Students

65

Award-Winning
Faculty