UC San Diego is Strengthening U.S. Semiconductor Innovation and Workforce Development

December 22, 2025

Andrew Kahng is part of several major national initiatives that together are transforming how future engineers learn to design and build computer chips. His work is helping UC San Diego become a driving force in the nation’s growing semiconductor innovation ecosystem. Full Story

UC San Diego Team Takes Third Place at SC25 Student Cluster Competition in St. Louis

December 5, 2025

A team of UC San Diego undergraduates incuding engineers and computer scientists won third place in the 2025 Student Cluster Competition (SCC25) at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, held this year in St. Louis, Missouri. The UC San Diego SCC25 Team Sea++ is a group within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at UC San Diego. Full Story

Embodied AI Research Takes Center Stage at San Diego Robotics Forum

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

Sweat-powered Sticker Turns Your Drinking Cup into a Health Sensor

November 10, 2025

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