Powerhouse team of UCSB professors wins NSF award to use AI to discover scientific laws for group interactions.
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ECE assistant professors Nina Miolane (seated) and Haewon Jeong are two of the four UCSB faculty members who are collaborating on a new $1 million NSF award. Photo credit: Matt Perko
An electron tunnels from an individual nitrogen atom (N, orange) to a nitrogen-vacancy center (NV, blue) in diamond. Below the lattice, the energy landscape: the electron cannot climb over the barrier between the two defects, so it passes straight through it. (Image credit: Lukas Razinkovas)
An international team of researchers reveals the pivotal role of tunneling in charging the diamond NV center.
Bolin Liao and his team developed one of the nation’s few scanning ultrafast electron microscopes (SUEM), which Liao will continue to use as part of research funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Photo credit: Matt Perko
As a 2026 Experimental Physics Investigator, Bolin Liao will develop platform for imaging and controlling quantum interactions with 2D materials.
As part of the Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes program, ECE professor Daniel Blumenthal will work on photonic integration of lasers and photonics for quantum optical clocks, atom interferometers and experiments for fundamental science involving neutral atoms and trapped ions. Photo credit: Matt Perko
Electrical and computer engineering professor Daniel Blumenthal is part of $290 million renewal of quantum science program.
Applications are now open for UC Santa Barbara’s new online Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL) program, launching in fall 2027.
New professional degree combines advanced technical education with leadership and management training.
Materials professor Craig Hawker speaks to participants in Innovation 360, the training program that Michelle O’Malley will expand through her AIChE fellowship to help more early-career researchers explore how scientific discoveries can move toward real-world use.
AIChE fellowship will support Michelle O’Malley’s efforts to broaden early-career researchers’ view of how discoveries move from the lab into the world.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus John Bowers was recognized by the University of California with its 2026 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovation. Photo credit: Matt Perko, UCSB
The University of California honors John Bowers for a career that transformed optical communications and carried university discoveries from the laboratory into the marketplace.
"We created this seminar to help students understand AI beyond the headlines, demystify how it actually works, and give them a broader view of where the field is heading," said computer science professor Xifeng Yan, who will be teaching the seminar. Photo credit: Shutterstock
New freshman seminar gives UCSB’s first artificial intelligence majors a broad view of the field.