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Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom

June 30, 2025

Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom

Phuong Truong has done it all at UC San Diego: from an undergraduate student in structural engineering, to master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering and now an adjunct lecturer and education specialist, Truong has been a strong presence at the Jacobs School of Engineering for more than a decade. Full Story

Sensitive Yet Tough Photonic Devices Are Now a Reality

June 25, 2025

Sensitive Yet Tough Photonic Devices Are Now a Reality

Engineers have achieved a long-sought milestone in photonics: creating tiny optical devices that are both highly sensitive and durable. This work could lead to a new generation of photonic devices that are not only precise and powerful but also much easier and cheaper to produce at scale. Full Story

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


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Compressed Sensing for Line Spectrum Estimation Without Sparsity

Seminar Speaker
Professor Piya Pal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego

Compressive sensing has emerged as a central area of research in modern signal processing with applications in many scientific and engineering problems across disciplines. The key idea is to exploit the sparse representation of signals in appropriate transform domains, which allows exact and stable reconstruction of high dimensional signals from measurements of size proportional to the sparsity level.

Seminar Contact
Cheryl Wills
Jacobs Hall, Room 2903
858-534-2498
clwills@eng.ucsd.edu

ECE PRIME Info Session & WeCe Potluck

Nov 18, 2016 - 12:00 pm
Room 2315, Jacobs School of Engineering, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, San Diego, California 92093
Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Learn about the new graduate mentorship initiative PRIME in conjunction with the WeCe (Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering) big/little sister program. Enjoy free pizza and compete for the Best Appetizer or Dessert Award! 


We welcome anyone who is interested to attend! 

Hosted by Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering 

geXc Symposia Series

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

Attention 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. 

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!

Inside-Out: First Person Vision for Personalized Intelligence

Seminar Speaker
Jianbo Shi
University of Pennsylvania

A first person camera placed at the person's head captures candid moments in our life, providing detailed visual data of how we interact with people and objects. It reveals our attention, intention and momentary visual sensorimotor behaviors. With the first person vision, can we build a computational model for personalized intelligence that predicts what we see and act by "putting yourself in her/his shoes"?

Seminar Contact
Julie Moritz
(jmoritz@eng.ucsd.edu)

Reduced Computational Workload DSP with Multirate Polyphase Filters and Filter Banks / GREEN Technology (also known as DSP Magic)

Seminar Speaker
fredric j harris

Last year someone posted a question on a DSP blog I visit occasionally. How does one design a very narrow bandwidth low pass filter? One version of the problem is a filter with 10 Hz wide pass band, a 10 Hz wide transition band, and a 1 kHz sample rate. Stopband attenuation >80 dB with passband ripple <0.01 dB. This a very bad combination: low transition bandwidth with high sample rate! I think students post their homework problems on the blog so I seldom volunteer to do their homework.

Seminar Contact
Prof. Bhaskar Rao
(brao@ucsd.edu)

Multimodal validation of signal stability from chronically implanted micro-electrocorticographic arrays

Seminar Speaker
Michael Trumpis

Micro-electrocorticography (μECoG) arrays are proposed as a minimally invasive alternatives to chronic intracortical microelectrode arrays. The promise of μECoG is to provide a neural interface with long lasting stability of both materials and recording ability. Since the surface potential typically lacks neuronal spikes, assessing recording quality is complicated by the question of what is being recorded, and from where.

Energy Efficient Computing: From Devices to Architectures

Seminar Speaker
Ethan C. Ahn, Ph.D
Professor of Electrical Engineering
The University of Texas at San Antonio

With the advent of so-called ‘abundant data’ era and the required throughput and energy-efficiency for the next-generation computing paradigm, it becomes increasingly important to explore more scalable approaches for both computational (logic) and information storage (memory) devices.

Seminar Contact
Julie Moritz
jmoritz@eng.ucsd.edu
Jacobs Hall, Room 2907
858.822.6939

Incentivizing improved cybersecurity: a study of security as a public good

Seminar Speaker
Parinaz Naghizadeh
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan

The security decisions of users interacting over a network, such as the Internet, can affect one another. For example, less protected computers may be compromised and used to launch attacks on other entities. As a result, security can be viewed as a public good. Provision of public goods by self-interested users is known to be inefficient, especially due to users' free-riding behavior.

Seminar Contact
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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$38M+

In Research
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17,000+

Alumni

2,200+

Remarkable
Students

65

Award-Winning
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