2021 News

ECE and Materials Professor Shuji Nakamura receives the 3rd Annual Richard J. Goldstein Energy Lecture Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

M. Dupree, Y. Zhu and Dr. Y. Isukapalli recognized for the award at the 2021 Int'l Telemetering Conference (ITC)

ECE Assistant Professor Nina Miolane receives prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant to better understand membrane proteins through geometric deep learning

ECE Assistant Professor Zheng Zhang receives the 2021 IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award

ECE graduate student Kamyar Parto receives a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) research award to conduct thesis research at a DOE national laboratory

ECE Prof. Yasamin Mostofi interviewed by BBC – Digital Planet podcast about her research on counting people with WiFi (14:00–22:30)

Assistant Professors Galan Moody (ECE) and Yufei Ding (CS) receive awards as part of a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and Cisco Systems’ new Quantum Research Team that aims to push the boundaries of quantum technologies

California Governor Gavin Newsom appoints José Hernández, engineer, former astronaut and UCSB alumnus, as a University of California Regent

ECE Assistant Professor Kerem Camsari and Professor Luke Theogarajan receive Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) awards that provide seed funding for projects that seek high-impact solutions for energy efficiency

ECE Professor Yasamin Mostofi and researchers’ new method enables WiFi signals to count a stationary seated crowd, using their natural body fidgets