November 6, 2025The 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
October 30, 2025
Could Mobile Batteries Enable Electric Construction Vehicles and Enhance Grid Resilience?
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
October 21, 2025
AI Models Can Now Be Customized with Far Less Data and Computing Power
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, 2025New 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
September 23, 2025Four 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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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
August 8, 2025New 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
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
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