The chemical engineer developed a novel technique based on relative entropy and numerical optimization algorithms that served advanced multiscale modeling.
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M. Scott Shell, a chemical engineering professor, has been elected a Fellow by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Researchers who captured fluid finding its way through a maze now understand what drove the counterintuitive phenomenon.
Explaining a quirky phenomenon from a seven-year-old experiment that became an art piece.

Associate Professor Elliot Hawkes.
Mechanical engineering associate professor is recognized for his “vine” robots and record-setting jumping robots.

Claude Weisbuch, distinguished professor and French Academie des Sciences Medal recipient.
For more than two decades, he has studied fundamental phenomena in semiconductors of the nitride family.

A spheroid of mammary epithelial cells encapsulated in a 3D hydrogel simulating the tumor microenvironment.
Bioengineer Ryan Stowers receives a pair of substantial awards to fund biomedical research.

Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low -line-width laser
Researchers in Daniel Blumenthal's lab work to re-create the performance of bench-top lasers on tiny devices.

Members of the research group were on hand to celebrate the appointment of chemical engineering professor Michelle O'Malley to the Cliff R. Scholle Endowed Chair.
The chemical engineer pioneered a new research field focused on anaerobes, enabling the next generation of biotechnology.

Tinish Bhattacharya pauses for a moment in his UCSB lab.
PhD student leads development of architecture to compute high-degree polynomial gradients in-memory.