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UC San Diego Paper Defining Vision for 6G Integrated Sensing and Communication Among Most Downloaded

March 4, 2026

UC San Diego Paper Defining Vision for 6G Integrated Sensing and Communication Among Most Downloaded

UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Nuria González-Prelcic has co-authored a paper that outlines the future of 6G wireless networks and has been recognized as one of the most downloaded and cited articles of 2025 in Proceedings of the IEEE. Full Story


Improve Prostate Cancer Care with AI

February 27, 2026

Improve Prostate Cancer Care with AI

Electrical engineers are key members of a team developing a new artificial intelligence model of the male urinary tract that could make prostate cancer radiation therapy more precise and help reduce side effects, such as urinary complications. Full Story


Six UC San Diego Faculty Elected to National Academy of Inventors for 2026

February 26, 2026

Six UC San Diego Faculty Elected to National Academy of Inventors for 2026

Six professors from the University of California San Diego have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in recognition of their outstanding achievements in innovation, from controlling populations of disease-spreading insects to turning smartphones into health monitors.  Full Story


A Smarter Way for AI to Understand Text and Images

February 10, 2026

A Smarter Way for AI to Understand Text and Images

A new method trains artificial intelligence systems to more reliably solve complex problems that require interpreting both text and images. In tests, AI models trained with this method outperformed others in solving math word problems containing images such as charts and diagrams. Full Story



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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