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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

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


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2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award - Professor Bhaskar Rao

The IEEE Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field. We would like to congratulate Professor Bhaskar Rao for his fundamental contributions to array processing and sparsity-based signal processing. 

Why Magnetic Sensing Can Be a Useful New Method for In-Vitro Diagnostics

Seminar Speaker
Dr. Oliver Hayden, In-Vitro Diagnostics & Bioscience Research Siemens Healthcare, Germany

Blood is the most important source for routine in-vitro diagnostic information, such as the concentration level of plasma biomarkers and cells. Only in special cases, such as leukemia diagnostics, functional analysis is performed with fluorescence flow cytometry. However, the rich information content of blood cell functions is not routinely available due to the complexity of today's diagnostic workflow.  Furthermore, sample logistics and sample preparation efforts cause imprecision of the test results.  In my presentation, I review the single cell analysis challen

Seminar Contact
Cheryle Wills <clwills@ucsd.edu>

Nonstochastic Information Theory for State Estimation and Control

Seminar Speaker
Girish Nair, Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

This talk is an overview of recent non-probabilistic information concepts that are motivated by worst-case estimation and control.  Using this framework, analogues of independence, Markovness, information, and directed information can be defined for variables not governed by probability distributions. This yields information-theoretic tools to study worst-case state estimation and control problems over finite-capacity channels. 

Seminar Contact
Tara Javidi <tjavidi@ucsd.edu>

Development and Application of an Optogenetic Platform for Controlling and Imaging a Large Number of Individual Neurons

Seminar Speaker
Ali Mohammed
Texas Tech University

The understanding and treatment of brain disorders as well as the development of intelligent machines is hampered by the lack of knowledge of how the brain fundamentally functions. Over the past century, we have learned much about how individual neurons and neural networks behave, however new tools are critically needed to interrogate how neural networks give rise to complex brain processes and disease conditions. Recent innovations in molecular techniques, such as optogenetics, have enabled neuroscientists unprecedented precision to excite, inhibit and record defined neurons.

Seminar Contact
Travis Spackman
tspackman@eng.ucsd.edu

Polar Codes: From Theory to 5G

Seminar Speaker
Hessam Mahdavifar
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Michigan

The discovery of the channel polarization phenomenon and polar codes is one of the most recent fundamental advances in coding theory. Polar codes provably achieve the fundamental limit of capacity for a wide range of channels with explicit constructions and low encoding and decoding complexity. In the first part of this talk, we provide a brief overview of polar codes and describe the most recent advances towards incorporating them in 5G wireless communications.

Seminar Contact
Cheryl Wills
(858) 534-2498

geXc (Genomic Exchange Community) Symposia

Dec 6, 2016 - 8:30 am
The Scripps Research Institute, The Robert Pain Scripps Forum, 8610 Kennel Way, La Jolla, CA
Panasas
General Atomics
SanDisk
Western Digital
Weka.io
Lab7 Systems: Accelerating Science
HGST
D-Mark Biosciences

Dear Genomic Data Enthusiasts,

The geXc – ‘Genomic Exchange Community’ symposia series is excited to announce its next event, geXc Scripps 2016, being held on Dec 6th 2016 at the Robert Paine Scripps Forum. We have a fantastic list of speakers and a packed schedule! D-MARK Biosciences is delighted to host this event with the support of the Scripps Institute. We would like to invite all San Diego regional researchers and Biotechnology community to attend. Please see the attached poster and visit  www.gexc2016.com for more information. 

geXc is a grassroots initiative with an intent to improve Genomics through collaboration and innovation. Genomics holds great promise for advancing our understanding of all living organisms.  Technological advancements in Genomics continue to come at alarming rate; there are numerous complexities to consider.  For the uninitiated, planning for an initial experiment and coping with data, can be overwhelming.  To help guide discovery and development in Genomics and data management, we have assembled leading experts, both academic and industry, to share their work and experiences.  The objective of this symposium is to provide a forum for sharing, learning, and networking. The symposium is open to anyone who is interested in Genomics and data! We close off the day with a poster competition and social, where cash prizes are awarded, $250 for first prize! If you have interest in entering the poster competition, please make sure to check off the box when you register online.  

The geXc symposia series is now in its 4th year! We have attracted over 4000 attendees, and all our events are very well received, truly enabling collaboration and innovation in Genomics. Due to the gracious contributions from the sponsors, this event is free to all. Breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, and the social are provided at no cost to attendees thanks to our sponsors. The geXc Scripps 2016 sponsors include D-MARK Biosciences, Panasas, Western Digital, HGST, SanDisk, Weka.io, General Atomics, and Lab7.  Attendance is free; however, registration is required. You can learn more, register, and download the full agenda at www.gexc2016.com . We look forward to welcoming you at geXc Scripps 2016. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact me.  

Please feel welcome to forward this invitation to your colleagues that are interested in attending. Please spread the word about the poster competition! We hope to see you there! 

2017 IEEE Fellow - Professor Joe Ford

Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors confers the grade of Fellow on up to one-tenth percent of the members. To qualify for consideration, an individual must have been a Member, normally for five years or more, and a Senior Member at the time for nomination to Fellow. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in IEEE’s designated fields. 

Please join us in congratulating Prof. Joe Ford who has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to free space optical imaging and communication technologies.

2017 IEEE Fellow - Professor Nuno Vasconcelos

Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors confers the grade of Fellow on up to one-tenth percent of the members. To qualify for consideration, an individual must have been a Member, normally for five years or more, and a Senior Member at the time for nomination to Fellow. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in IEEE’s designated fields. 

Please join us in congratulating Prof. Nuno Vasconcelos who has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to computer vision, image processing, and multimedia. 

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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