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An images suggesting heat being transformed into electricity

Jul 01, 2024
Tapping Waste Heat for Electricity

Bolin Liao and collaborators investigate the thermoelectric properties of cadmium arsenide thin films.

Source: UCSB Current
Artist's concept suggesting neuromorphic computing.

Jun 24, 2024
Researchers Propose Platform for Brain-Inspired Computing

The ultra-energy efficient platform has energy requirements within two orders of magnitude of the human brain's.

Source: The Current
EyeClimate, the 2024 New Venture Competition Finals champions (left to right) Tim Arnold, NVC Finals judge; Bowen Zhang, PhD student; Max Gordon, undergraduate student; and Satish Kumar, PhD student

May 24, 2024
Turning an Entrepreneurial Eye to the Climate Change Challenge

EyeClimate takes on climate change to win 25th UCSB New Venture Competition. 

May 16, 2024
Dirty Data: Assistant Professor Seizes Opportunity to Clean up Bias in AI

Haejwon Jeong receives prestigious award for a novel approach to eliminating bias and discrimination from machine-learning models. 

Raphaële Clément, assistant professor of materials and 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award recipient

May 12, 2024
Fueling Future Batteries

UCSB materials professor receives prestigious award to investigate solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries.

Image of two leaves, one uncoated, one coated with perovskite film

May 06, 2024
A Low-Energy Process for High-Performance Solar Cells

Researchers in chemistry, chemical engineering, and biochemistry tweaked perovskites to improve them.

Source: UCSB Current
The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines, a book written by technology management assistant professor Matt Beane, discusses how to protect skills in a world filled with AI and robots.

Apr 29, 2024
The Code to Building Skills in Our Modern Workplace

UCSB assistant professor Matt Beane writes a book on how to protect skills in a world filled with AI and robots. 

Siddharth Dey, assistant professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering

Mar 14, 2024
The Light of Knowledge

UCSB engineering assistant professor receives prestigious NSF award for employing light to track the location and movement of cells during early embryonic development.

Shuji Nakamura, 2014 Nobel Prize recipient and inventor of Blue LED

Feb 27, 2024
Viral Video Shines Light on Shuji Nakamura's Discovery of Blue LED

The video highlights his journey to develop the bright-blue LED,  a technology that has revolutionized lighting around the world. 

Jason Marden, electrical and computer engineering professor

Feb 27, 2024
Rising Status: ECE Professor Jason Marden Named IEEE Fellow

Fewer than 0.1% of IEEE members receive the prestigious honor each year

image of (from left) Steven DenBaars, Phil Christopher, Shuji Nakamura

Feb 16, 2024
A Seed Grant for Light-driven Catalysis

A collaboration to engineer a solid-state laser customized to power more efficient light-driven catalysis. 

BIoPACIFIC is a collaboration between faculty and staff at UCSB and UCLA.

Jan 22, 2024
BioPACIFIC MIP: Two UC Campuses Advance a New Model for Materials Research

Backed by NSF, the BioPACIFIC MIP unites scientists and engineers from the California NanoSystems Institute nodes at UCSB and UCLA.

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