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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


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

August 1, 2025

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

A new AI tool could make it much easier—and cheaper—for doctors and researchers to train medical imaging software, even when only a small number of patient scans are available. It could lead to faster, more affordable diagnostic tools, especially in hospitals and clinics with limited resources. Full Story


ECE Faculty Yuanyuan Shi received NSF CAREER Award 2025

July 16, 2025

ECE Faculty Yuanyuan Shi received NSF CAREER Award 2025

This five-year project aims to develop performance-guaranteed learning and control for real-world energy systems, with applications to power grid voltage control and building HVAC control. Full Story


Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom

June 30, 2025

Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom

Phuong Truong has done it all at UC San Diego: from an undergraduate student in structural engineering, to master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering and now an adjunct lecturer and education specialist, Truong has been a strong presence at the Jacobs School of Engineering for more than a decade. Full Story



2025 Outstanding Engineering Service Award by SDCEC

The San Diego County Engineering Council (SDCEC) is an umbrella organization consisting of local engineering society chapters, both collegiate and professional. They recognize the contributions of individuals, projects and engineering heroes in San Diego County and Imperial County that advance engineering and technology benefiting the general public through their annual San Diego Engineers Week Awards Banquet. This year, 9 Outstanding Engineering Honor Awards were presented during Engineers Week on February 18. ECE Department Chair Prof.

Harmonizing Energy Efficiency and Signal Chain Friendliness in High-Resolution ADCs

Seminar Speaker
Dr. Shaolan Li

High-resolution ADCs are essential components in many biomedical and environmental sensing applications. As the demands for wearable, miniature and point-of-care systems keep increasing, the design requirements for high-resolution ADCs also get more stringent, with strong emphasis on energy efficiency, reliability, and low cost. Over the past few years, many design techniques have been developed to excel the figure-of-merit (FoM) of high-resolution ADCs, where the state-of-the-arts has gotten really close to the theoretical limit.

Seminar Contact
Professor Drew Hall

Gridless Joint Phase Error and High Resolution DoA Estimation in DFT Beamspace for Hybrid MIMO OFDM Systems

Seminar Speaker
Martin Haardt

ESPRIT-based high-resolution parameter estimation algorithms in DFT beamspace have been proposed as efficient gridless channel estimation schemes for MIMO OFDM systems in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band. Compared to conventional ESPRIT-based algorithms in element space, the DFT beamspace approach can be applied to MIMO systems with hybrid analog-digital architectures. Moreover, this approach significantly reduces the training overhead for communication systems operating in the mmWave band. It involves coarse and fine estimation steps. 

 

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Prof. Piya Pal

University of California, San Diego Ranked #12 Best School for Master’s in Artificial Intelligence in 2025

MastersInAI.org has recognized the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) as the #12 best school for earning a master's degree in artificial intelligence in its 2025 rankings. This prestigious acknowledgment places UC San Diego alongside top-tier institutions such as UC Berkeley and Stanford, underscoring its excellence in AI education.

IEEE Fellow Class of 2025

UC San Diego Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department had 4 new faculty elevated to become Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of 2025, the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity. The faculty are Patrick Mercier, Shayan Mookherjea, Tse Nga Ng and Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic.

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.

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17,000+

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2,200+

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65

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