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Welcome to the website of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCSD. When you browse around, you will see the up-to-date courses covering the entire spectrum of the electrical and computer engineering discipline, you'll get information about our faculty, who are leaders in their cutting-edge research programs, and you'll see undergraduate and graduate students about working on groundbreaking projects.

ECE is at a significant crossroads - the technology to create and manipulate information is at the center of the modern world, and it impacts modern telecommunications and computer industries, as well the basic sciences and biology. The research challenges in our discipline emerge at the nano-scale of device physics, from the convergence of electronics and biology, from the emerging challenges of alternative energy sources, and from the linking of the virtual and physical worlds. We invite you to join us in this exciting adventure into the future of global high technology.

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Professor Young-Han Kim is the recipient of the 2008 Bergmann Memorial Research Award from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). This award is made annually to outstanding young investigators of newly awarded BSF grants, judged on the basis of the quality of their proposals. Professor Kim`s project is on "the role of directed information in causal inference," collaborative research with Dr. Haim Permuter at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. The Bergmann Award is given in memory of the late professor Ernest David Bergmann, who was internationally recognized for his significant contributions to organic chemistry. He played a major role in establishing the BSF in 1972 and served on its board of governors until his death in 1975. One of his special interests was to encourage young scientists.

Professor Joseph Ford has been elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America for pioneering research in free-space optical technology, including the first use of micromechanics for equalization and switching in wavelength multiplexed communication.

Bharath Sriperumbudur has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Student Paper at the annual Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, NIPS 2009, for the paper "Kernel Choice and Classifiability for RKHS Embeddings of Probability Distributions," with his advisor Gert Lanckriet, in collaboration with Kenji Fukumizu at ISM, Tokyo and Arthur Gretton and Bernhard Schölkopf at MPI, Tübingen. NIPS is one of the two international flagship conferences in machine learning.

Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius – the music recommendation system in Apple’s iTunes – against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs within the same playlist, the researchers found. The University of California, San Diego electrical engineers also discovered that the music recommender they built from scratch can generate song playlists that human subjects thought were as good as those that Genius generates.

Brendan Morris, an ECE student working with Prof. Mohan Trivedi, is the winner of the 2009 Student Essay Competition by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America). Brendan`s paper deals with video based trajectory analysis for traffic pattern and vehicle classification, for safety enhancement. It shows how machine learning and vision algorithms can be used for predicting potentially dangerous situations in real-time. This research is sponsored by NSF, Volkswagen and UC Discovery. The award is the most prestigious recognition given to a student involved in the field of Intelligent Transportation and Intelligent Vehicles.

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