UC San Diego Engineers Launch Free Digital Twin for End-to-End Testing of Applications over Wireless

May 13, 2026

Electrical engineers at UC San Diego developed an open-source digital twin of a wireless network: giving graduate students, startups and other innovators a free, easy-to-use way to test new technologies and get fast, realistic feedback.  Full Story

UC San Diego Researcher Awarded LANL-UC Fellowship

May 7, 2026

UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Yuanyuan Shi has been awarded the Michael R. Anastasio LANL-UC Early Career Faculty Fellowship from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Shi will work on developing an AI-driven framework to control and model complex physical systems. Full Story

New Conversational AI Tool Uses Trusted Medical Protocols to Help People Decide When to Seek Care

April 23, 2026

A new chatbot could reliably help people decide what to do about their symptoms — and do so based on guidance that is both medically sound and easy to understand. Designed to improve self-triage, it could help reduce unnecessary hospital visits and ensure that those who need care seek it sooner. Full Story

Six New Projects Are Empowering Early-Career Engineering and Computer Science Faculty

April 23, 2026

Six teams from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been awarded funding to accelerate interdisciplinary research collaborations that include an early-career faculty member. The big idea is to empower early-career faculty to build interdisciplinary research collaborations to the point that they are competitive for multi-year external funding. The effort is funded by Irwin Jacobs and his late wife, Joan. Full Story