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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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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) ...
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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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Jun 9 (Fri) @ 12:30pm: "System Identification and Adaptive Control Applications in Pharmacokinetics,” Murat Kaan Erdal, ECE PhD Defense

The recent development of continuous molecular monitoring platforms creates an unprecedented opportunity to understand drug pharmacokinetics, which is the study of how drugs are distributed within and ...
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May 20 (Fri) @ 11:00am: "Indium Phosphide Photonic Integrated Circuits for CO2 Lidar," Victoria Rosborough, ECE PhD Defense

Photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology will enable a future of ubiquitous compact sensors. One application space that can be disrupted by a PIC-enabled sensor is remote Earth science sensing. A ...
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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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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 ...
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Sep 18 (Wed) @ 11:00am: "High Performance Quantum Dot Gain Devices for Heterogeneous Integration on Silicon Photonics," Chongxin (Tyler) Zhang, ECE PhD Defense

In the past decades, most telecom, datacom, and sensor systems have been developed based on discrete optical components. As the demand for data transfer is rapidly rising, the need to reduce cost, ...
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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 ...