ECE News

June 10, 2024

Graduating students in each undergraduate degree program within the College of Engineering select one outstanding teaching assistant (TA) to recognize for their service and dedication to student success with Electrical Engineering TA Kunjesh Agashiwala receiving the recognition

June 10, 2024

Every spring, the College of Engineering recognizes the graduating seniors who have the highest cumulative grade point average (GPA) from each degree program – this year’s Outstanding Senior in Electrical Engineering is  Arun Khanna

June 10, 2024

Graduating seniors in every undergraduate degree program in the College of Engineering recognize a faculty member each spring and the Class of 2024’s COE Outstanding Faculty in Electrical Engineering is Professor Galan Moody

June 7, 2024

ECE Doctoral student S. Shailja receives the Winifred and Louis Lancaster Dissertation Award for her dissertation in electrical and computer engineering

June 5, 2024

Atieh Taheri to join the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in fall 2024

May 28, 2024

EyeClimate team of Satish Kumar (ECE) & Bowen Zhang (CS) and Max Gordon (English) take first place at UC Santa Barbara’s flagship entrepreneurial experience – the New Venture Competition (NVC)

May 16, 2024

ECE assistant professor Haewon Jeong receives prestigious National Science Foundation Early CAREER award to pursue novel approach to eliminate bias and discrimination from machine-learning models

May 7, 2024

Just a few months before completing his PhD in ECE, Satish Kumar makes UCSB history, becoming the university’s first COE graduate student named a prestigious Schmidt Science Fellow

April 16, 2024

ECE PhD Student Vade Shah receives a five-year 2024 Graduate Research Fellowship Program honor from the National Science Foundation (NSF)

ECE Spotlights

Degree Sought from UCSB: BS/MS in Electrical Engineering
UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) is a world leader in developing breakthrough energy-saving innovations. Learn more about our collaborative researchers.
Hometown: Portland, OR
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ECE Assoc. Prof. Galan Moody's Quantum Photonics Lab addresses open challenges by developing integrated photonic technologies—the optical analog of microelectronics
ECE Ass't Prof Yao Qin’s group addresses degradation in performance stemming from robustness issues to help treat those with type-1 diabetes
FusionSense is an open-source tool that allows for real-time collection of mm-wave radar data, developed by 2023 EE Capstone Seniors
Champion of Engineering – Wenbin Jiang is an ECE Alumnus with a feel for Photonics
Ph.D. Candidate in Photonics & Electronics
Hometown: Torrance, CA