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Çamsarı – IEE IGSB Software Impact Grant

In 2022, IEE added the annual Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB) Software Impact Grant to bolster software projects that lead to significant advances or risk reduction, and are likely to result ...
Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

Moody & Pintus – IEE Research Seed

This IEE Seed Grant tackles important work related to energy efficiency in quantum computing conducted by professor Galan Moody and project scientist Paolo Pintus, both based in the Department of ...
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Shailja – MICCAI Doctoral Consortium "Overall Winner Award"

Recent ECE Ph.D., S. Shailja receives the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI) 2025 Doctoral Consortium "Overall Winner Award" for her dissertation ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Oct 10 (Fri) @ 2:00 PM: "Co-Packaged Optical Transceivers for HPC, Data Center, and AI Applications," Daniel M. Kuchta, Principal Hardware System ...

This talk will cover the status of co-packaging efforts, both VCSEL- and SiPh-based, where they fit into the Ethernet switch market and the evolving Computer IO market, and how these technologies are ...
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ECE News

Recent ECE Ph.D., S. Shailja receives the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI) 2025 Doctoral Consortium "Overall Winner Award" for her dissertation ...
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Feb 25 (Fri) @ 3:00pm: "Data-driven Methods for Evaluating the Quality and Authenticity of Visual Media," Ekta Prashnani, ECE PhD Defense

Data-driven approaches, especially those that leverage deep learning (DL), have led to significant progress for many important problems in computer vision and image/video processing over the last ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Jun 6 (Fri) @ 2:00 pm: “Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits, John E. Bowers, Dir. of the Inst. for Energy Efficiency and Prof. ECE and Materials, UCSB

Tremendous progress is being made at silicon photonic foundries around the world to improve the performance, yield and capability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and that is opening up new ...
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Aug 16th (Fri) @ 10:00 am: “Photonic Architectures for In-Memory Computing Using Nonvolatile Optical Materials,” Nathan Youngblood, Ass’t. Prof., ECE, Pitt

Abstract Photonics information processing strategies offer the unique ability to perform analog computation with ultra-low latency and high efficiency. However, designing compact and reconfigurable ...
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Jul 19 (Tue) @ 12:00pm: "Improving Gain and Efficiency of N-polar GaN Deep Recess HEMT for mm-Wave Applications," Weiyi Li, ECE PhD Defense

GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have been demonstrated to be a leading technology for RF millimeter-wave application. While GaN technologies utilizing the Ga-polar (0001) ...
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May 20 (Mon) @ 11:30am: "Advances in Nitrogen-polar GaN HEMTs Enabling Adoption in mm-Wave Applications," Henry Collins, ECE PhD Defense

Emerging high-frequency technologies such as satellite communication, 5G telecommunication, and autonomous vehicles necessitate the development of mm-wave power amplifiers. In this work, performance ...
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Aug 28 (Mon) @ 3:30pm:” Millimeter-Wave GaN Device Modeling and Circuit Design,” Rohit Reddy Karnaty, ECE PhD Defense

Gallium Nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) offer significant advantages in microwave power applications, yet their scaling for high power in millimeter-wave (mmW) bands presents ...