UC San Diego is Strengthening U.S. Semiconductor Innovation and Workforce Development

December 22, 2025

Andrew Kahng is part of several major national initiatives that together are transforming how future engineers learn to design and build computer chips. His work is helping UC San Diego become a driving force in the nation’s growing semiconductor innovation ecosystem. Full Story

UC San Diego Team Takes Third Place at SC25 Student Cluster Competition in St. Louis

December 5, 2025

A team of UC San Diego undergraduates incuding engineers and computer scientists won third place in the 2025 Student Cluster Competition (SCC25) at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, held this year in St. Louis, Missouri. The UC San Diego SCC25 Team Sea++ is a group within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at UC San Diego. Full Story

November 18, 2025

Embodied AI Research Takes Center Stage at San Diego Robotics Forum

The San Diego Robotics Forum celebrated its 10th anniversary Nov. 5, 2025 with talks from startup founders who are also alumni, entrepreneur guest speakers, and engineering faculty whose work probes the limits of what is possible in robotics and artificial intelligence.This year’s event, organized by the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute, centered on the theme of bridging embodied AI and applications. Throughout the day, speakers detailed how AI, generative and otherwise, could be applied to healthcare, disaster monitoring, and more.    Full Story

Sweat-powered Sticker Turns Your Drinking Cup into a Health Sensor

November 10, 2025

Engineers have developed a battery-free electronic sticker that attaches to everyday objects like a drinking cup and monitors vitamin C levels from a person’s fingertip sweat. The technology could make personal nutrition monitoring as effortless as holding a cup of coffee. Full Story

November 6, 2025

The 2026 San Diego Wireless Summit

We are pleased to announce the dates for the premier annual event hosted by the UC San Diego Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) and Qualcomm: Thursday, January 22nd & Friday, January 23rd, 2026. The 2026 Summit will focus on the cutting-edge theme of: Wireless Intelligence: Bridging Physical Systems & Human-Centric AI. Full Story

Could Mobile Batteries Enable Electric Construction Vehicles and Enhance Grid Resilience?

October 30, 2025

In a first-of-its-kind test, engineers at UC San Diego are experimenting with large, mobile batteries to both charge electric construction vehicles, and also support a more resilient electric grid. Full Story

AI Models Can Now Be Customized with Far Less Data and Computing Power

October 21, 2025

Engineers have created a new method to make large language models (LLMs) — such as the ones that power chatbots and protein sequencing tools — learn new tasks using significantly less data and computing power. Full Story

September 30, 2025

New faculty join the Jacobs School

The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is welcoming six new faculty to its ranks in fall 2025. Full Story

September 23, 2025

Four undergraduate programs ranked in nation’s Top 10

Four undergraduate programs at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering have been ranked in the nation’s Top 10 in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Colleges ranking Full Story

From Lebanon’s Vineyards to Vision Restoration

September 12, 2025

Growing up in rural Lebanon, tinkering with cars and working the grape harvest gave professor Shadi Dayeh a hands-on foundation that now informs his innovations in brain mapping and potentially vision-restoring whole-eye transplantation.   Full Story

August 8, 2025

New AI Tool Learns to Read Medical Images With Far Less Data

Recent work from the group of assistant professor Pengtao Xie was featured on UC San Diego Today.  Full Story

New AI Tool Learns to Read Medical Images With Far Less Data

August 1, 2025

A new AI tool could make it much easier—and cheaper—for doctors and researchers to train medical imaging software, even when only a small number of patient scans are available. It could lead to faster, more affordable diagnostic tools, especially in hospitals and clinics with limited resources. Full Story

July 16, 2025

ECE Faculty Yuanyuan Shi received NSF CAREER Award 2025

This five-year project aims to develop performance-guaranteed learning and control for real-world energy systems, with applications to power grid voltage control and building HVAC control. Full Story

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

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