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Nanofab – Cleanroom Bootcamp

ECE’s Demis D. John, Nanofab Group Manager leads the UCSB’s Cleanroom Bootcamp that gives students, educators, and professionals hands-on training and industry-recognized credential for growing ...
Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

ECE Faculty & National Cloud Lab for Advanced Materials

From the RMCOE News article “UCSB to Lead National Cloud Laboratory for Advanced Materials” ...
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Bhargavan – Spearheads Funding for Gaucho Racing

Gaucho Racing first attended the Formula SAE Electric Competition in 2023 with a car that was not ready to compete. Although the vehicle never raced on the track, the experience gave students an ...
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Nakamura – Oxford Honorary Degree

Oxford recognizes ECE & Materials Prof. Shuji Nakamura among nine distinguished honorees whose achievements span science, culture, politics, the arts and sport ...
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May 6 (Wed) @ 1:00pm: "Photonic Integrated Frequency Stabilized Kerr Soliton Microcombs and Application to Communications, Clocks, and Metrology," Mark Harrington, ECE PhD Defense

Dissipative Kerr Soliton (DKS) microcombs have emerged as a future solution to bring metrological optical frequency comb (OFC) capabilities into a photonic integrated platform with mass-scale ...
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April 13 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: “Scaling, Stacking, and Cracking the Memory Wall,” Shyam Surthi, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Micron Technology

Location: Harold Frank Hall (HFH), Room 4108 (ECE Conf. Rm.) AI has exposed an inconvenient truth: computation is no longer the bottleneck — memory is. Despite decades of aggressive scaling, modern ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Mar 6 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Six Mini Talks" by ECE PhD Students

This seminar features short research talks covering a range of topics across AI, photonics, communications, control, and computing systems. Learn about ongoing work in the department and connect with ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Jan 23 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Efficient Planning and Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation Via Structured Exploration," Tao Pang, Roboticist, Robotics & AI ...

The success of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in dexterous, contact-rich manipulation has left much to be understood from a model-based perspective, where key challenges include (i) locally, the hybrid, ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Jan 16 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: “MEMS and Microsystems for Space Applications,” Mina Rais-Zadeh, Group Supervisor, Jet Propulsion Lab

The future of space exploration demands instrumentation that is ultra-miniaturized, robust, and capable of functioning reliably in harsh, extreme environments—from the cryogenic depths of outer space ...
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Dec 1 (Mon) @ 1:00pm: "Adaptive Methods for Prediction and Frame Reconstruction in Video Coding," Zeyu Deng, ECE PhD Defense

Efficient video compression relies heavily on accurate block prediction and effective frame reconstruction, both of which depend on statistical models that capture the characteristics of the encoded ...
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ECE Seminar Series (GSA) – Three Mini Talks by ECE PhD Students

Three short talks by UCSB PhD students Roark Chao, Poorva Shukla, and Abdelrahman S. Abdelrahman presenting a wide array of ECE topics from photonics to dynamical systems to quantum algorithms. All ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Oct 31 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Signal Processing Meets RF Hardware: Compensating RF Nonidealities in Future Wireless Systems,” Nuutti Tervo, Visiting ...

Radio frequency (RF) transmitters and receivers contain multiple nonideal hardware components. In modern transceiver architectures, understanding their behavior and properties is essential for ...