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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


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



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Orientation

ECE's 2022 Orientation will be held on Tuesday, September 20th from 9:30-11:00am in WLH 2001. For admitted ECE majors only. Join us!

 

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NEW INTL PhD Student Updates

Electrical and Computer Engineering

PhD Program

The information below pertains ONLY to new international PhD students in the ECE Department.  For questions on admissions/deferrals, please contact ECEgradapps@eng.ucsd.edu. Curriculum questions may be directed to your academic student advisor: Teresa Ta (tlta@eng.ucsd.edu) or Begum Asena (basena@eng.ucsd.edu)

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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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