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2025 Jacobs School Award of Excellence Recipients

June 12, 2025

2025 Jacobs School Award of Excellence Recipients

The Jacobs School of Engineering will celebrate the undergraduate students in the class of 2025 at its annual Ring Ceremony on Friday, June 13. Six students were selected from the nearly 1,500  students receiving bachelor’s degrees from the Jacobs School of Engineering to receive an Award of Excellence from their academic department.   Full Story


Reimagining RFID: UC San Diego Researchers Develop Award-Winning Real-Time, Battery-Free Sensors

June 10, 2025

Reimagining RFID: UC San Diego Researchers Develop Award-Winning Real-Time, Battery-Free Sensors

UC San Diego engineers' award-winning SenSync system turns conventional RFID technology into a reliable sensing platform without using wires or batteries or requiring calibration. Full Story


Electrical Engineer Peter Asbeck is Powering 6G

May 14, 2025

Electrical Engineer Peter Asbeck is Powering 6G

Peter Asbeck is widely recognized as a pioneer in compound semiconductor technology and power amplifiers for wireless systems, both of which are essential to efficient communication in smartphones and base stations alike. He is an electrical engineering professor emeritus and remains active in research at UC San Diego.  Full Story


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



2017 Chemical Science Award from the 9th Asian Conference on Organic Electronics

Please join us to congratulate Professor Tina Ng.  Her group (with postdoc Zhenghui Wu and graduate student Weichuan Yao) won the Chemical Science Award from the 9th Asian Conference on Organic Electronics.


Zhenghui Wu, Weichuan Yao, Tse Nga Ng, "Elucidating the Detectivity Limits in Shortwave Infrared Organic Photodiodes"

2018 Forbes 30 Under 30

It was a long-standing assumption that it was impossible for a radio to transmit and receive at the same time at the same frequency. Professor Dinesh Bharadia proved that assumption wrong by building a radio that did just that. His research was commercialized by Kumu Networks and Deutsche Telekom has led successful field tests of the technology. 

Congratulations to Prof. Bharadia for his inclusion in the Forbes "30 Under 30" class of 2018!

Read more here: Forbes 30-Under-30

2018 ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award 

Please join us in congratulating Professor Farinaz Koushanfar, who has been awarded the ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award for the following paper:
 

2008 Paper Titled: Lightweight Secure PUF

Mehrdad Majzoobi, Farinaz Koushanfar - Rice University, Miodrag Potkonjak- Univ. of California, Los Angeles
ICCAD 2008, pp. 670 – 673

2018 IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation, we would like to congratulate Professor Massimo Franceschetti for this honor.

2018 IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation, we would like to congratulate Professor David Whelan for this honor.

Silicon photonics at the RWTH Aachen: High-speed transceivers, group IV light sources and visible wavelength multi-color light engines

Seminar Speaker
Jeremy Witzens

Overview of silicon photonics activities at the RWTH Aachen aimed at datacom and life science applications. In particular, recent progress will be covered on wideband, resonantly enhanced high-speed modulators and semiconductor mode-locked laser based WDM transceivers aimed at short distance communications.

Seminar Contact
Shayan Mookherjea (smookherjea@ucsd.edu)
Valeria Rendon (vrendon@ucsd.edu)

Making Climate Commitments Possible Through Data Science for Sustainable Consumption

Seminar Speaker
Dr. James Tull
ProductBio

According to GSA and EPA research, the acquisition of goods and services creates a carbon footprint nine times that of buildings and fleets put together. The procurement of environmentally preferable products is possible at scale if 1) we use data science to translate sustainability standards and product claims into environmental benefits and actionable sustainable procurement policies and 2) we can reconcile cost with sustainability.

Seminar Contact
Travis Spackman (tspackman@eng.ucsd.edu)

Manipulating Light, Matter and Energy with Plasmonic Nanotechnology

Seminar Speaker
Yuebing Zheng

Surface plasmons, which are coherent oscillations of delocalized electrons at the interface of two materials, can concentrate and manipulate light at the nanoscale. We exploit unique optical, thermal, mechanical, electrical and chemical properties associated with surface plasmons to innovate a wide range of optical nanotechnologies in health, energy, manufacturing and national security.

Seminar Contact
Travis Spackman
tspackman@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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65

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