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Self-assembling Molecules Take the Spotlight at Research Expo 2025

May 5, 2025

Self-assembling Molecules Take the Spotlight at Research Expo 2025

Materials science and engineering Ph.D. student Liya Bi won the grand prize at the 43rd annual Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo for his work studying how molecules organize themselves into highly ordered patterns on metal surfaces. Full Story


A fully automated tool for species tree inference

May 5, 2025

A fully automated tool for species tree inference

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego is making it easier for researchers from a broad range of backgrounds to understand how different species are evolutionarily related, and support the transformative biological and medical applications that rely on these species trees. Full Story


Microelectronics Go from Lab to Fab at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute

March 17, 2025

Microelectronics Go from Lab to Fab at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute

Little more than a year after the Microelectronics Commons program kicked off, University of California San Diego researchers have already made significant strides in bringing novel semiconductor technologies from possibility to prototype and beyond. Full Story


Quantum Properties in Atom-thick Semiconductors Offer New Way to Detect Electrical Signals in Cells

March 3, 2025

Quantum Properties in Atom-thick Semiconductors Offer New Way to Detect Electrical Signals in Cells

For decades, scientists have relied on electrodes and dyes to track the electrical activity of living cells. Now, UC San Diego engineers have discovered that quantum materials just a single atom thick can do the job—using only light. Full Story



Boosting Visible Light Detectability of In-ga-zn-o Phototransistor with Additional Absorption Layer

Seminar Speaker
Prof. Hyun Jae Kim
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Recently, oxide semiconductors have become promising alternatives to Si-based semiconductors due to their outstanding properties such as high transparency, possibility of large area fabrication, low leakage current, and low process temperature. Based on these advantages, oxide semiconductors have been used in a variety of applications from the display area to solar cells and sensors.

Seminar Contact
Cheryle Wills
Jacobs Hall, Room 2903
email: clwills@eng.ucsd.edu

From Here to There -- Grid Reliability in the Grid of the Future

Seminar Speaker
Bob Cummings
Senior Director of Engineering and Reliability Initiatives
North American Reliability Corporation (NERC)

The students of the Real-World Grid Operations Course would like to invite you to a seminar by Mr. Bob Cummings, the Senior Director of Engineering and Reliability Initiatives of the North American Reliability Corporation (NERC), the entity oversees eight regional reliability entities and encompasses allthe interconnected power systems of the contiguous United States, Canada and Mexico.

Seminar Contact
Bethany Carson
<bacarson@eng.ucsd.edu>
Phone: 858-822-6347

A Leap in Time: Learning and Reasoning with Videos

Seminar Speaker
Xiaolong Wang

The field of computer vision has been completely transformed by the success of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets). State-of-the-art deep models have led to large advancements in visual tasks such as object detection and segmentation. One key ingredient behind this success is a large amount of human supervision for training ConvNets. However, can we really annotate every task we want to solve? As computer vision works towards more difficult and structured AI tasks, it becomes more challenging for humans to provide training supervision.
 

Seminar Contact
Beatriz Valenzuela bpvalenz@ucsd.edu

Edward Wang

Pengtao Xie

Xiaolong Wang

Wave-front Sensing and Shaping Techniques and Their Applications in Nanotechnology and Biology

Seminar Speaker
YongKeun Park

In this talk, we will present the applications of inverse scattering principles with digital holography [1-5]. First, I will present the holotomography – a 3D quantitative phase imagign techniques for label-free imaging of cells and tissues [2]. As an optical analogous to X-ray computed tomography, holotomography reconstructs 3D refractive index tomography of unlabelled cells, from multiple 2D holographic images obtained with various illumination angles.

Seminar Contact
Cheryle Wills
<clwills@ece.ucsd.edu>

Grid Resiliency Against Wild Fires

Seminar Speaker
Chris Christopher
Steven Vanderbug

The students of the Power Grid Resiliency for Adverse Conditions Course would like to cordially invite you to a seminar by San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E). The 2018 wildfire season was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire season on record in California, with a total of about one thousand fires burning an area of about two million acres, the largest amount of burned acreage recorded in a fire season. The fires have caused more than $3.5 billion in damages and destructed homes, businesses and infrastructures, including power transmission and distribution lines.

Seminar Contact
Bethany Carson <bacarson@eng.ucsd.edu>

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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