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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



Selective Major Application

Selective Major 

Beginning with the SUMMER 2025 continuing student application cycle, students will be able to apply to one of our majors once per year (between Summer and Fall quarters).  Note that space will be limited and acceptance to our majors is not guaranteed.  For more information about the admission process and criteria please see the UC San Diego Selective Majors Page

ECE Undergraduate Advising Office

The mission of ECE Student Affairs is to facilitate ECE faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in understanding and navigating UCSD administrative processes in order to achieve success in their research, educational and professional endeavors, and to prepare students to become engaged and constructive members of a diverse, dynamic and global society.

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Generative Adversarial Networks and their applications in Natural Language Processing

Seminar Speaker
Abhishek Sethi

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a powerful idea to train generative models and has recently shown amazing results in computer vision. Broadly, the framework estimates generative models via an adversarial process in which the generator and discriminator play a two-player game. Although there are only a few successful cases, the GAN framework is useful for NLP tasks and overcomes the inherent limitations in conventional methods.

Seminar Contact
Dinesh Bharadia
dbharadi@ucsd.edu

Designing and Testing of 60GHz Low Cost SOC Products in CMOS

Seminar Speaker
Lars Mucke
Huawei

This presentation will discuss the challenges designing and testing highly integrated low cost SOC products for the 60GHz band. Products discussed include a high data rate SOC with phased array front-end and a high resolution short range radar SOC. Topics will include radio architecture overview, self- calibration, designing for reliability and testing challenges.

Seminar Contact
Travis Spackman
Tel: (858) 822-4697
email: tspackman@ucsd.edu

Passing of Professor Emeritus in Applied Physics, Herman "Harry" Wieder

 

Herman "Harry" Wieder, professor emeritus of Applied Physics at UC- San Diego, passed away peacefully on June 6, 2018 at his residence in La Jolla. A condensed-matter physicist, his interests included basic and applied research in solid-state electronics, quantum wells and superlattice materials and devices.

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+

Alumni

2,200+

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Students

65

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