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UCSB Researchers – “Rebuilding the heart of a quantum computer”

Devoret shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Clarke and John Martinis, a UCSB professor of physics, for experiments demonstrating macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy ...
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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 ...
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Junior & Conolley – WC Raytheon AVC winning team

ECE graduates, Adailton Nali Junior and Ryan Conolley, part of winning team in the West Coast division of Raytheon’s Autonomous Vehicle Competition (AVC) When Adailton Nali Junior, then a fourth-year ...
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Real AI Initiative – "More Than the Sum of It's Parts"

From the RMCOE News article "Much More Than the Sum of Its Parts" When it comes to AI, two’s company but three — or more — can be a much harder problem. Many current approaches to AI in science model ...
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Aug 9 (Mon) @ 2pm: "Machine Learning Techniques for Rare Failure Detection in Analog and Mixed-Signal Verification and Test," Hanbin Hu, ECE PhD Defense

Due to inherent complex behaviors and stringent requirements in analog and mixed-signal (AMS) systems, verification and testing become key bottlenecks in the product development cycle. Rare failure ...
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Mar 6 (Wed) @ 4:00pm: “Silicon Photonics for LiDAR, Augmented Reality, Biophotonics, Quantum Engineering, and Beyond,” Jelena Notaros, EECS, MIT

Jelena Notaros is the Robert J. Shillman Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. and ...
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May 16 (Thu) @9:00am: "On the Role of Information in the Control of Multi-Agent Systems: A Game-Theoretic Approach," Bryce Ferguson, ECE PhD Defense

With an influx of many new communication and computation technologies, many systems that once existed in isolation now interact and form the basis of large multi-agent systems (e.g., fleets of ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Sep 25 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: “Reinventing the Camera: AI and the Future of Imaging," Peyman Milanfar, Distinguished Scientist, Google

AI is fundamentally revolutionizing imaging, transforming how we capture, reconstruct, enhance, and experience visual content. Advancements in AI are actively overcoming the physical limitations of ...
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Jun 17 (Mon) @ 4:00pm: “Optimal Designs in Multi-Agent Systems and Industrial Refrigeration,” Rohit Konda, ECE PhD Defense

The focus of this thesis is on developing control strategies for large-scale systems. We look at two distinct problem areas: the design of coordination algorithms for multi-agent systems and the ...
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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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May 14 (Tue) @10am: "Nonlinear and Quantum Light Source Technologies in SiN PICs," Kartik Srinivasan, NIST/UMD Joint Quantum Inst.

Silicon nitride has become a widely used material for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), due to its broad optical transparency window, moderately high refractive index, widely accessible growth ...
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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 ...