News Releases from 2023
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Super Low-cost Smartphone Attachment Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Fingertips
UC San Diego engineers have developed a simple 3D-printed attachment that clips over a smartphone's camera and flash to measure blood pressure at the user's fingertip. The clip works with a custom smartphone app and currently costs about 80 cents to make. Researchers say it could help make regular blood pressure monitoring easy, affordable and accessible to people in resource-poor communities. Full Story
UC San Diego Engineering Team Develops New "Attacker" Device to Improve Autonomous Car Safety
To help improve the safety and security of autonomous vehicles using millimeter wave (mmWave) radio frequencies, researchers from the lab of UC San Diego electrical engineering professor Dinesh Bharadia, and colleagues from Northeastern University, devised a novel algorithm designed to mimic an attack. Full Story
New Study Shows Noninvasive Brain Imaging Can Distinguish Among Hand Gestures
Researchers have found a way to distinguish among hand gestures that people are making by examining only data from noninvasive brain imaging, without information from the hands. The results are an early step in a safe brain-computer interface that may one day help patients with movement challenges. Full Story
UC San Diego Researchers Present New Wireless System for Greater 5G Access
UC San Diego electrical engineers have developed a new technique for increasing access to the 5G-and-beyond millimeter wave (mmWave) network. Full Story
The AI Revolution is Upon Us--And UC San Diego Researchers Are Using it to Inform Climate Action
Researchers across a range of fields are working together to develop and implement AI-assisted tools and machine learning methods that will enable scientific discoveries at an unprecedented pace. And when it comes to global challenges like climate change, time is of the essence. Full Story
Safe, autonomous driving tech takes the wheel at Research Expo 2023
Ross Greer, an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at UC San Diego, won the grand prize at Research Expo 2023 for his work on a technology that could enable vehicles to drive more autonomously and decide when the driver is prepared to take back control of the wheel. Full Story
This student organization builds neurotechnology devices
UC San Diego students will present three projects at an event that will bring together teams for five University of California campuses April 29 at UCLA. The neuro-tech conference is organized by student organizations at UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis. Full Story
Breakthrough enables battery-free smart tag technology
Imagine you can open your fridge, open an app on your phone and immediately know which items are expiring within a few days. This is one of the applications that a new technology developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego would enable. Full Story
Computer Engineering Student Awarded Fellowship for Women in Aerospace
Akshara Kuduvalli, a computer engineering undergraduate student at the University of California San Diego, has been selected as a 2023 Brooke Owens Fellow. The Fellowship is awarded to exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities in aerospace. Kuduvalli is one of 47 fellows selected from more than 1,000 applicants from around the world. She is the fifth recipient from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering in the seven-year history of the fellowship. Full Story
UC San Diego Computer Security and Privacy Pioneer Named ACM Fellow
Farinaz Koushanfar, a professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego, has been named one of 57 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2022. Koushanfar is recognized for her contributions to secure computing and privacy-preserving machine learning. Full Story