The San Diego Robotics Forum celebrated its 10th anniversary Nov. 5, 2025 with talks from startup founders who are also alumni, entrepreneur guest speakers, and engineering faculty whose work probes the limits of what is possible in robotics and artificial intelligence.This year’s event, organized by the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute, centered on the theme of bridging embodied AI and applications. Throughout the day, speakers detailed how AI, generative and otherwise, could be applied to healthcare, disaster monitoring, and more. Full Story
Engineers have developed a battery-free electronic sticker that attaches to everyday objects like a drinking cup and monitors vitamin C levels from a person’s fingertip sweat. The technology could make personal nutrition monitoring as effortless as holding a cup of coffee. Full Story
We are pleased to announce the dates for the premier annual event hosted by the UC San Diego Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) and Qualcomm: Thursday, January 22nd & Friday, January 23rd, 2026. The 2026 Summit will focus on the cutting-edge theme of: Wireless Intelligence: Bridging Physical Systems & Human-Centric AI. Full Story
In a first-of-its-kind test, engineers at UC San Diego are experimenting with large, mobile batteries to both charge electric construction vehicles, and also support a more resilient electric grid. Full Story
MastersInAI.org has recognized the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) as the #12 best school for earning a master's degree in artificial intelligence in its 2025 rankings. This prestigious acknowledgment places UC San Diego alongside top-tier institutions such as UC Berkeley and Stanford, underscoring its excellence in AI education.
UC San Diego Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department had 4 new faculty elevated to become Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of 2025, the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity. The faculty are Patrick Mercier, Shayan Mookherjea, Tse Nga Ng and Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic.
The architecture and deployment of mobile networks has experienced dramatic transformation in the past decade, enabled through embracing “disaggregation” at different levels. This in turn has led to diversification of the ecosystem. At the same time, disaggregation of mobile networking systems introduces new challenges. In this talk, I’ll start by giving my perspective on the key drivers (economic and beyond) behind the remarkable transformation of the mobile networking landscape and outline three levels of disaggregation that played a pivotal role.
Emerging energy and electronics technologies such as lightweight solar cells, low power computing devices, and earth-abundant water splitting catalysts could power the renewable energy transition, but their impact is limited by performance and manufacturability. Scalable nanomanufacturing via printing could address these needs by allowing low-cost integration of high-performance materials over large areas and in new 3D geometries.
Mixer-based transmitters have been dominant for approximately 100 years.
Prof. Xiaolong Wang and his student Ruihan Yang won the IROS Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation.
This is an award out of 3645 submissions at IROS this year. It is a collaboration with Ruihan interning at AI2 last year.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department traces its roots back to the establishment of the Applied Electrophysics department in 1965, under its founding chair Henry Booker. Through a succession of department realignments emerged today’s ECE in 1987, when the then-combined Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department was split into two departments. Since then, ECE has earned a world-class reputation for producing top-notch engineers for industry and academia.
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