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The CoE is excited to welcome back Xin (Eric) Wang to the Computer Science Department as an assistant professor this July! 💻 💡

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May 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Journey to Arcana: A Student Team Creates UCSB’s First Major Game
Undergraduates in the Gaucho Game Lab persevered to complete the first RPG to come out of UCSB.
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May 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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A (Very) Large Slice of Pi
The world’s biggest assembly of Raspberry Pi computers comes to UCSB.
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April 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A CAREER Award to Democratize Advanced Network Management Technology
Not all networks are created equal. Arpit Gupta would like to treat them as if they were.
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May 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Scientists at UC Santa Barbara & Northwestern University have created the first synthetic “mini prion” that could help study neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. 🦠

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May 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Thank you to WBHI’s AI Core Directors @amykooz.bsky.social and @ninamiolane.bsky.social for leading this challenge and to our co hosts at WiDS, @childmindinstitute.bsky.social, and Kaggle. We’re already looking forward to the next round!

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July 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Recognizing Research Potential
Engineering graduate students awarded fellowships to further investigate cardiac disease, fibrosis, and tissue self-regeneration.
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April 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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In case you missed our Smart #BionicEye video earlier, you can now hear about our research in more detail on the latest episode of @NLM_NIH's NNLM Discovery podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhEEEyYAegA

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November 9, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Cadense, a UCSB startup that develops adaptive shoes, was recently selected as a finalist for a 2025 Innovation by Design Award presented by the American business magazine Fast Company.🏅

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October 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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UCSB Professor James B. Rawlings Receives Top Honor for Control Systems Engineers
James B. Rawlings becomes only the fifth chemical engineer to receive the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award since 1979.
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August 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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UCSB Launches Hands-on Semiconductor-Manufacturing Summer Courses
The courses offer a pathway for non-engineers to fill important jobs in a critical industry.
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August 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Chemical Engineering Student Anika Jena Receives ACS Award
The chemical engineering student was one of only two undergraduates nationwide selected to receive funding and present research at the national conference.
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August 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Arpit Gupta Receives Google Funding to Develop Low-Cost Network Foundation Models
The two awards reflect the perceived importance of his innovative research.
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July 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Startup Leaders Present at the CNSI Technology Incubator’s Tenth Anniversary
Representatives from eleven companies that began in the Incubator shared their stories.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Jeff Sakamoto Named Fellow of the Electrochemical Society
The UCSB professor is cited for leadership in the areas of electrochemistry and mechano-electrochemistry.
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July 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Pioneering UCSB Laser Expert John Bowers Is Set to Retire
Materials professor Steven DenBaars succeeds him as director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency.
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June 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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The class of 2025 is just getting started! 🎓 🎉

We invited our newest alumni to share their thrilling plans for life after graduation.👏

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June 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Happy Pride Month!🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Each June we celebrate Pride in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and use this opportunity to lift the voices of our LGBTQIA+ community.

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June 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Leveraging AI to Study Women’s Brains During and After Pregnancy
Nina Miolane is developing an innovative tool for real-time monitoring.
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May 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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This award will help them to develop the next generation cyberinfrastructure for multimodal imaging data, which will bring to the UCSB BisQue platform current advances in AI and large language models (LLMs).

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Grant Supports Advances in Cyberinfrastructure for Multimodal Imaging Data
The interdisciplinary collaboration is aimed at integrating AI and LLM functionality into the UCSB BisQue Platform.
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May 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The CoE is excited to welcome Yuheng Bu, currently an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida, to the UCSB Computer Science Department as an assistant professor this July!🖥️ 💡

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May 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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An NSF Early CAREER Award for Digital Design and Fabrication
Jennifer Jacobs is using her award to add control and flexibility to the burgeoning field of 3D printing.
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May 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Congratulations to doctoral student Elizabeth Murphy for winning the prestigious 2025 Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science & Engineering!👏

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April 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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🎉 Today is UCSB Give Day! 🎉

A gift to the College of Engineering supports the research and the education of engineering pioneers. Join us in creating a better new world, every gift counts.💙 🔬

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April 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Materials ranked 1st, chemical engineering ninth, computer science tied for 13th, and mechanical engineering and ECE tied for 15th.💙💛

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April 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM