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From Lebanon’s Vineyards to Vision Restoration

September 12, 2025

From Lebanon’s Vineyards to Vision Restoration

Growing up in rural Lebanon, tinkering with cars and working the grape harvest gave professor Shadi Dayeh a hands-on foundation that now informs his innovations in brain mapping and potentially vision-restoring whole-eye transplantation.   Full Story


New AI Tool Learns to Read Medical Images With Far Less Data

August 8, 2025

New AI Tool Learns to Read Medical Images With Far Less Data

Recent work from the group of assistant professor Pengtao Xie was featured on UC San Diego Today.  Full Story


New AI Tool Learns to Read Medical Images With Far Less Data

August 1, 2025

New AI Tool Learns to Read Medical Images With Far Less Data

A new AI tool could make it much easier—and cheaper—for doctors and researchers to train medical imaging software, even when only a small number of patient scans are available. It could lead to faster, more affordable diagnostic tools, especially in hospitals and clinics with limited resources. Full Story


ECE Faculty Yuanyuan Shi received NSF CAREER Award 2025

July 16, 2025

ECE Faculty Yuanyuan Shi received NSF CAREER Award 2025

This five-year project aims to develop performance-guaranteed learning and control for real-world energy systems, with applications to power grid voltage control and building HVAC control. Full Story



Jiajia Wu, a PhD student from ECE won two awards at the IEEE international Conference

Thrilled to share that our ECE PhD student Jiajia Wu has been honored with two awards at the esteemed IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS)! She received the Best Paper Runner-up Award in BioCAS, as well as the Runner-up Paper Award in WiCAS for their work: A Low-Noise 0.001Hz-1kHz Sample-Level Duty-Cycling Neural Recording System-on-Chip (will be available online soon).

Shaochen Chen

Stojan Radic

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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