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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


UC San Diego Celebrates New Three National Academy of Engineering Members

February 28, 2025

UC San Diego Celebrates New Three National Academy of Engineering Members

Three members of our Jacobs School community have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Congratulations to Robert W. Heath Jr., Richard Sandstrom and Doug Cameron. Full Story


Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on Education, Research and More

February 27, 2025

Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on Education, Research and More

Better simulations to understand how viruses work. Better ways to model and predict climate change. Better robots that can navigate the real world. Researchers from all across the University of California San Diego and around the world converged on campus last week to explore the promise of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Full Story



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.

Contributions to Diversity

Expectations of the Contributions to Diversity Statement

In the context of an engineering faculty search, diversity and outreach activities are activities that relate to making engineering (and more generally the STEM fields) accessible to groups historically under-represented in engineering, as well as to the general public. The statement of “Contributions to Diversity” is meant for the candidate to describe his or her:

The Internet of Things (IoT): Computational Modeling in Congested and Contested Environments

Seminar Speaker
Dr. Nandi Leslie

Increasingly, objects—previously unidentified as requiring networked communications—are becoming a part of what is known as the “Internet of Things (IoT)”.  On the battlefield, future warfighter operations and missions will rely more heavily on networked devices designed with autonomous cognitive decision-making capabilities to perform a broad range of tasks, including cognitive sensing, communicating with human warfighters, conducting operations in congested environments, and securely processing and communicating data to other autonomous agents.

Seminar Contact
Prof. Tara Javidi <tjavidi@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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