 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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 Jacobs School Ranked 9th in the World - Tue, 03 Nov 2009
The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the 9th best in the world for engineering/technology and 15th in the world for computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Electrical Engineers Go Head to Head with Genius - Tue, 27 Oct 2009
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.
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 Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Boot Camp - Wed, 30 Sep 2009
The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) held its first “Boot Camp” from August 10-22 at UC San Diego.
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 invent@UCSD Features ECE Professor Ian Galton - Mon, 14 Sep 2009
Electrical engineering professor Ian Galton is the featured innovator in the September 2009 issue of “invent@UCSD”—the newsletter of the UC San Diego Technology Transfer Office. Galton leads the Integrated Signal Processing Group within the Jacobs School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Improving Understanding of Nuclear Ignition - Fri, 28 Aug 2009
As the nation’s nuclear weapons are aging (think the beginning of the Cold War), the U.S. government is turning to researchers and scientists at universities such as UC San Diego to figure out safe and reliable ways to estimate their longevity and to understand the physics of thermonuclear reactions in the absence of underground testing currently prohibited under law.
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 Scalable Energy Efficient Data Centers - Thu, 27 Aug 2009
A UC San Diego-led team of computer scientists and optical interconnection systems technologists in the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN) is developing Scalable Energy Efficient Data Centers (SEED, for short). It consists of novel optical interconnection technologies for a multi-stage network topology. The goal is to build SEED as an integrated solution encompassing physical layer hardware, protocols and topologies — while offering tomorrow's data centers greater scalability, bisectional bandwidth, fault tolerance and energy efficiency.
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 NanoTumor Center Video Wins Telly Award for Edu Video - Thu, 16 Jul 2009
The University of California, San Diego NanoTumor Center and NanoTecNexus (NTN) (formerly NanoBioNexus)—a leading nanotech education organization—won the 2009 Bronze Telly Award for the production of a video on approaches to fighting cancer using nanotechnology.The three minute video, entitled “Fighting Cancer with Nanotechnology,” is embedded below and can be viewed at NanoTecNexus, YouTube and around the Web.
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 Robot Learns to Smile and Frown - Wed, 08 Jul 2009
A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning. The UC San Diego researchers used machine learning to “empower” their robot to learn to make realistic facial expressions.
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Engineering Undergrads Do International Research - Tue, 07 Jul 2009
Twenty four Jacobs School undergraduates are among the 33 University of California, San Diego undergraduates working as researchers in laboratories across the Pacific Rim and India this summer.
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New Phased Array RFIC for Satellite Systems and Radars - Thu, 02 Jul 2009
High speed SiGe process replaces 8 GaAs chips, lowering cost and increasing integratio
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