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Miolane: “HerBrain” a TIME Magazine 2025 Top Invention

Until recently, notes Miolane, who was buoyed by the coverage in TIME, “There hasn’t been much research on women’s brains, and there aren’t enough women researchers in neuroscience and AI, so it’s ...
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Richard Mirin

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering • UC Santa Barbara 2025 © Regents of the University of California ...
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Yulun Wang, PhD EE '88: SoCalBio Honor

The achievement award is selected by SoCalBio Innovation Catalysts Program members. The Southern California Biomedical Council is a nonprofit, member supported trade association that supports and ...
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Mar 13 (Wed) @ 9:00am: “Safe Robot Autonomy in Interactive Open-World Environments, Accelerated by Generative AI,” Roya Firoozi, Postdoc Researcher, Stanford

Generative AI offers the potential to empower autonomous robots with the ability (i) to connect abstract concepts to 3D scene geometry and (ii) to enable complex intention prediction and collaboration ...
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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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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 ...
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ECE Seminar Series – March 22 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: “Latest Progress and Challenges in 300 mm Monolithic Silicon Photonics Manufacturing,” Takako Hirokawa, Principal Device ...

In this talk, I will discuss the latest developments in the GlobalFoundries Fotonix TM program, including enhancements in device performance, packaging, PDK compact models, and in-house test ...
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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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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 – 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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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) ...