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August 22, 2024
New Center Receives $18M from NSF to Develop Tools to Investigate the Pre-emergence Phase of Pandemics
A team led by UC Davis and including UC San Diego has launched a new center focused on detecting emerging pandemic threats. They will develop tools, such as advanced wireless sensors, to monitor infectious disease activity in natural hotspots to intercept these threats early. The center is supported with $18 million over seven years through the NSF. Full Story
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August 6, 2024
18 New Endowed Chairs Created at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has created 18 new endowed chairs, empowering a world-class cohort of faculty to explore new and innovative research directions. These endowed chairs have been made possible through the generous and visionary philanthropy of Irwin and Joan Jacobs. Full Story
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Press Clip: Oct 22, 2021
Prof. Shadi Dayeh of ECE at UC San Diego leads a $12.25 million grant to improve epilepsy treatment
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Press Clip: Jul 15, 2020
Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Apply Epidemic Model to COVID-19
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Testing High-Dimensional Distributions: Subcube Conditioning, Random Restrictions, and Mean Testing
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Given a distribution p on {-1,1}^d, we want to test whether p is uniform.
Self-Programming Networks: Applications to Financial Trading Systems
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We describe Self-Programming Networks (SPNs), an ongoing research effort at Stanford for making data center networks autonomous; that is, to enable networks to sense and
Towards a Theory of Information for Dynamical Systems
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We are moving towards a massively and diversely connected world populated by a seamless network of intelligent, dynamic distributed systems engaged in a shared interaction with the physical world a
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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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The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the Jacobs School of Engineering traces its history back to 1965, with the creation of the department of Applied Electrophysics, which became Applied Physics & Information Science, then Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and finally ECE as we know it today. Throughout those formative years, our vision focused on information and communication theory and systems, radio physics, and quantum electronics.
ECE is among the leading departments of its kind in the nation, built on fundamentals of applied mathematics and engineering physics, providing multidisciplinary, systems-oriented education and research in eleven core areas: Applied Ocean Sciences, Computer Engineering, Communication Theory & Systems, Electronic Circuits & Systems, Electronic Devices & Materials, Intelligent Systems, Robotics & Control, Medical Devices & Systems, Nanoscale Devices & Systems, Photonics, Radio and Space Science, and Signal & Image Processing.