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
The 2026 San Diego Wireless Summit
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
Could Mobile Batteries Enable Electric Construction Vehicles and Enhance Grid Resilience?
October 30, 2025
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
AI Models Can Now Be Customized with Far Less Data and Computing Power
October 21, 2025
Engineers have created a new method to make large language models (LLMs) — such as the ones that power chatbots and protein sequencing tools — learn new tasks using significantly less data and computing power. Full Story
New faculty join the Jacobs School
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is welcoming six new faculty to its ranks in fall 2025. Full Story
Four undergraduate programs ranked in nation’s Top 10
Four undergraduate programs at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering have been ranked in the nation’s Top 10 in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Colleges ranking Full Story
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From Lebanon’s Vineyards to Vision Restoration
September 12, 2025
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