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Moody Lab: Chip-scale Magnetometer

Based on a magneto-optic material, the precision magnetometer could enable light-weight and low-power sensing for space, navigation and medical applications.
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OPUS Lab – New Digital Design Facilitates Scalable Probabilistic Computing

AI/ML could become more efficient, due to computer component developed by OPUS & Tohoku U, in collaboration w/ TSMC ...
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Ahmadi – Q & A with the RMCOE

ECE Associate Professor Elaheh Ahmadi brings mid-career experience to the ECE faculty From the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering News article "Elaheh Ahmadi Brings Mid-Career Experience to the ...
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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 – Dec 8 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: “Vector Search: High Throughput and Robust Query Processing and Modern Benchmarks,” Teemu Roos, Prof, CS, U of Helsinki

The rapidly evolving field of vector databases offers solutions for many real-world AI pipelines, including retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and multimodal semantic search. These pipelines require ...
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Dec 3 (Wed) @9:00am: "Improving Friction Modeling for Robotics via Physics Informed Neural Networks," Asutay Ozmen, ECE PhD Defense

Location: Harold Frank Hall (HFH), Room 4110B (ECE Conf. Rm.) Accurately modeling friction in robotics remains a core challenge, as robotics simulators like Mujoco and PyBullet use simplified friction ...
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Richard Mirin

III-V Semiconductor Epitaxy and Devices; Heterogeneous Materials Integration; Semiconductor Lasers; Chip-scale Nonlinear Optics; Quantum Dots; Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Single-Photon Sources and ...
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Moody – CoE Convergence "Recognizing Innovation"

ECE assistant professor Galan Moody recognized in the CoE's Convergence magazine for receiving a 2020 NSF Early CAREER award Galan Moody is one of nine assistant professors in the UC Santa Barbara ...
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Strukov – IEEE Fellow

ECE Professor Dmitri Strukov elected a 2023 fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary ...
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Hespanha: Co-PI of UCSB ACTION Institute

ECE Prof. Joao Hespanha a co-PI with fellow UCSB CS Profs. C. Kruegel, A. Singh, and Director G. Vigna of the ACTION Institute which is leading a new effort combining humans and AI to protect critical ...
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K. Agashiwala: COE Outstanding EE TA

Graduating students in each undergraduate degree program within the College of Engineering select one outstanding teaching assistant (TA) to recognize for their service and dedication to student ...