Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara | Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

Recent News

THE's 2025 Interdisciplinary Science Rankings places UCSB at No. 8 worldwide
UCSB Ranks Among Top Universities Nationally and Globally in Recent Assessments
U.S. News – ECE & COE ranked among 2024 Nation's Best Graduate Engineering Schools

Admissions

Undergraduate: UCSB Office of Admissions — Dates & Deadlines for Freshman & Transfer Applicants | How to Apply
Graduate: Application Portal Opens Sept 2025 – Learn more @ UCSB Graduate Division & How to Apply | ECE Prospective Students & Apply

Announcements

Employment – Open Level Faculty Positions in the areas of:

Electronics & Photonics, Emerging Technologies
Architecture/Hardware/Software Interfaces

Department Events

ECE Seminar Series

Jan 23 (Thu) @ 10:00am: “Architecting the Full Stack: Programming Systems for Sparse Accelerators,” Olivia Hsu, Stanford

Jan 24 (Fri) @ 10:00am: "The Upcoming Revolution of General-Purpose Computing: Democratizing AI/ML Accelerators,” Hung-Wei Tseng, UC Riverside

Our Research

Nature Photonics: Pintus, Dumont, Moody, and Bower

Nature Photonics: Pintus, Dumont, Moody, and Bowers "A New Optical Memory Platform for Super-fast Calculations"

News

Nakamura – Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Spotlight

Çamsarı – Rhythms of Nature

Çamsarı – Rhythms of Nature

News

Blumenthal “Power of Tabletop Precision Lasers for Quantum Science...”

Blumenthal “Power of Tabletop Precision Lasers for Quantum Sci. to the Chip Scale"

News

Banerjee – Platform for Brain-inspired Computing

Banerjee: Proposed Platform for Brain-inspired Computing

ECE in COE Convergence (M24) mag

ECE in COE Convergence (M24) mag

COE: "The Nanofab: An Innovation Ctr."

COE: "The Nanofab: An Innovation Ctr."

ECE Seminar Series

ECE Seminar Series

Our Spotlights

Feb 8: Join E. Hu & alums L Hwang, E Zucker, J Skidmore, G Snider, T Hauskeen

Feb 8: Join E. Hu & alums L Hwang, E Zucker, J Skidmore, G Snider, T Hauskeen

ECE in COE Convergence mag (F/W '24)

ECE in COE Convergence mag (F/W '24)

Glimpse of the ECE Undergraduate Experience

A Glimpse of the ECE Undergraduate Experience

Our Faculty

Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize, Physics 2014

Shuji Nakamura, Physics 2014

Arthur Gossard, National Medal of Science & Technology, Physics 2014

Arthur Gossard, Physics 2014

Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize, Physics 2000

Herbert Kroemer, Physics 2000

Glen Culler, National Medal of Science & Technology, Physics

Glen Culler, Physics 1999

Our Recent Honors

Zhang: IGSB SW Impact Grant

Zhang: IGSB SW Impact Grant

Banerjee: JSAP Fellow Intl.

Banerjee: JSAP Fellow International

Moody & Bowers: DARPA Award

Moody & Bowers: DARPA Award

Our Students

Grad Spotlight: Sabrina Maldonado

Grad Spotlight: Sabrina Maldonado

Bhattacharya – HW for Solving High-order Opt. Problems

Bhattacharya – HW for Rapidly Solving High-order Optimization Problems

Undergrad Spotlight: Chris Maldonado-Salido

Undergrad Spotlight: Chris Maldonado-Salido

Our People

John – NanoFab at "TechTopia"

John – NanoFab at "TechTopia"

Convergence Mag (FW '24) notes 8 ECEs

Convergence Mag (FW '24) notes 8 ECEs

4 ECEs – COE Convergence "News Briefs" — alums R. Cooper, A. Black Bjorlin, P. Parikh and Prof. U. Mishra

4 ECEs – COE Convergence "News Briefs"