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July 16, 2025ECE 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
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June 30, 2025Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom
Phuong Truong has done it all at UC San Diego: from an undergraduate student in structural engineering, to master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering and now an adjunct lecturer and education specialist, Truong has been a strong presence at the Jacobs School of Engineering for more than a decade. Full Story
June 25, 2025
Sensitive Yet Tough Photonic Devices Are Now a Reality
Engineers have achieved a long-sought milestone in photonics: creating tiny optical devices that are both highly sensitive and durable. This work could lead to a new generation of photonic devices that are not only precise and powerful but also much easier and cheaper to produce at scale. Full Story
June 12, 20252025 Jacobs School Award of Excellence Recipients
The Jacobs School of Engineering will celebrate the undergraduate students in the class of 2025 at its annual Ring Ceremony on Friday, June 13. Six students were selected from the nearly 1,500 students receiving bachelor’s degrees from the Jacobs School of Engineering to receive an Award of Excellence from their academic department. Full Story
June 10, 2025
Reimagining RFID: UC San Diego Researchers Develop Award-Winning Real-Time, Battery-Free Sensors
UC San Diego engineers' award-winning SenSync system turns conventional RFID technology into a reliable sensing platform without using wires or batteries or requiring calibration. Full Story
May 14, 2025
Electrical Engineer Peter Asbeck is Powering 6G
Peter Asbeck is widely recognized as a pioneer in compound semiconductor technology and power amplifiers for wireless systems, both of which are essential to efficient communication in smartphones and base stations alike. He is an electrical engineering professor emeritus and remains active in research at UC San Diego. Full Story
May 5, 2025
Self-assembling Molecules Take the Spotlight at Research Expo 2025
Materials science and engineering Ph.D. student Liya Bi won the grand prize at the 43rd annual Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo for his work studying how molecules organize themselves into highly ordered patterns on metal surfaces. Full Story
May 5, 2025
A fully automated tool for species tree inference
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego is making it easier for researchers from a broad range of backgrounds to understand how different species are evolutionarily related, and support the transformative biological and medical applications that rely on these species trees. Full Story
March 17, 2025
Microelectronics Go from Lab to Fab at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute
Little more than a year after the Microelectronics Commons program kicked off, University of California San Diego researchers have already made significant strides in bringing novel semiconductor technologies from possibility to prototype and beyond. Full Story
March 3, 2025
Quantum Properties in Atom-thick Semiconductors Offer New Way to Detect Electrical Signals in Cells
For decades, scientists have relied on electrodes and dyes to track the electrical activity of living cells. Now, UC San Diego engineers have discovered that quantum materials just a single atom thick can do the job—using only light. Full Story