UC San Diego Paper Defining Vision for 6G ISAC Among Most Downloaded in Proceedings of the IEEE

March 4, 2026

UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Nuria González-Prelcic has co-authored a paper that outlines the future of 6G wireless networks and has been recognized as one of the most downloaded and cited articles of 2025 in Proceedings of the IEEE. Full Story

Improve Prostate Cancer Care with AI

February 27, 2026

Electrical engineers are key members of a team developing a new artificial intelligence model of the male urinary tract that could make prostate cancer radiation therapy more precise and help reduce side effects, such as urinary complications. Full Story

Six UC San Diego Faculty Elected to National Academy of Inventors for 2026

February 26, 2026

Six professors from the University of California San Diego have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in recognition of their outstanding achievements in innovation, from controlling populations of disease-spreading insects to turning smartphones into health monitors.  Full Story

A Smarter Way for AI to Understand Text and Images

February 10, 2026

A new method trains artificial intelligence systems to more reliably solve complex problems that require interpreting both text and images. In tests, AI models trained with this method outperformed others in solving math word problems containing images such as charts and diagrams. Full Story

First-of-its-kind Cleanroom Turns Inventions into Devices Ready for FDA Approval

January 26, 2026

The first good manufacturing practices facility located on a university campus in the United States opened this fall at the University of California San Diego. The space is dedicated to building devices that can be implanted in the human body – especially for neurological applications. Full Story

Compressed Data Technique Enables Pangenomics at Scale

January 12, 2026

Engineers at the University of California have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the field of pangenomics to handle unprecedented scales of genetic information.  Full Story

UC San Diego Engineer Elected Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences

January 7, 2026

Abdoulaye Ndao has been named a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), one of the highest honors for scientists working to advance research and innovation in Africa. Ndao’s election is especially notable because he is the first AAS Fellow in UC San Diego’s history. Full Story

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

November 18, 2025

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

November 6, 2025

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

September 30, 2025

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