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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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Sep 9 (Tues) @ 2:00PM: "Optimization of Emerging Relaying Paradigms in Next-Generation Communication Networks," Winston Hurst, ECE PhD Defense

Zoom Meeting: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/88579819067?pwd=4ajB7I2IC8XscRDssQUU2YdkDSKHPn.1 Next-generation communication systems will leverage emerging paradigms to ...
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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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ECE Seminar Series – Mar 3 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: "Can Spintronics Help Make Computing More Efficient?," Mark Stiles, NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology

In this talk, I discuss why computer designers are looking to develop novel ways of computing for a variety of common but specialized tasks, why spintronic devices, particularly magnetic tunnel ...
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Feb 18 (Tue) @10am: "Quantum Nanophotonics Using Heterogeneous Materials Integration: From Single Photons to Integrated Lasers,” Richard Mirin, NIST

The Quantum Nanophotonics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO develops new semiconducting and superconducting technologies for advanced metrology needs ...
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Jan 28 (Tue) @ 10am: "Pushing the Boundaries of Modern Application-Aware Computing Stacks,” Christina Giannoula, U. of Toronto

Modern computing systems encounter significant challenges related to data movement data movement in applications, such as data analytics and machine learning. Within a compute node, the physical ...
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Dec 10 (Tue) @ 10:00am: "Photonic Integrated Coil Cavity Ultra-low Linewidth Stabilized Lasers and Applications," Kaikai Liu, ECE PhD Defense

Silicon nitride has become a widely used material platform for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), due to its broad optical transparency window (400 nm – 2.5 μm), relatively high refractive index, ...
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Dec 5 (Thu) @ 4:30pm: "Understanding Overparameterized Neural Networks: Insights into Imbalances and Neural Representations," Ganesh R Kini, ECE PhD Defense

This talk explores the properties of overparameterized deep neural networks, with a particular focus on training with imbalanced data. We propose a theoretically grounded loss function tailored for ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Nov 15 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "The Army Research Laboratory: Some Current Interests and Opportunities," Dr. Raghuveer Rao, Chief, Intelligent Perception Branch ...

The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the primary executor of basic and applied research for the Army. In addition to its intramural research efforts spanning multiple technical competencies, ...
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Sep 20 (Fri) @ 11:00am: "Development of Advanced DLTS Applied to Next Generation of Materials and Devices," Christopher Clymore, ECE PhD Defense

The demand for improved power conversion, 5G/6G telecom, and other RF applications necessitates the development of devices with, variously, higher frequency of operation, higher output power, greater ...