2024 News

ECE Faculty and Students highlighted in the 35th issue (fall/winter 2024) of Convergence – The magazine of engineering and the sciences at UC Santa Barbara

ECE Prof. Daniel Blumenthal, GSR Andrei Isichenko, and OCAQπ Group research highlighted in The UCSB Current article “Bringing the Power of Tabletop Precision Lasers for Quantum Science to the Chip Scale”

PhD student Tinish Bhattacharya leads development of architecture to compute high-degree polynomial gradients in-memory

An international team that includes ECE's Paolo Pintus, Mario Dumont, Galan Moody, and John Bowers develops a faster, more durable optical platform for in-memory computation

Times Higher Education (THE) ranks UCSB Eighth Globally for Interdisciplinary Research

ECE Assoc. Prof. Zheng Zhang among four potentially high-impact projects seeking to solve critical energy-efficiency challenges have been awarded more than $240,000 in cumulative funding related to UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE)

ECE Prof. Kaustav Banerjee elected by the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) as a 2024 JSAP Fellow International

ECE Profs. Galan Moody and John Bowers and others from Caltech, MIT, UVA, and Nexus Photonics receive a nearly $10M grant from the DoD through DARPA to develop next-gen optical detectors

ECE Professor Behrooz Parhami's course ECE 594BB on Elections Math is the subject of the new graduate seminar

The Nanofabrication Facility and ECE's Demis John participate in "TechTopia" an innovation and research event that combines industry, UCSB labs, and South Coast companies along with local students and career opportunities