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Interdisciplinary Teams Win Three Data Storage Awards from Western Digital

September 5, 2025

Researchers from UC San Diego received three Western Digital Petabyte Innovation Quest (Peak) awards for pursuing innovative data storage projects.

UC San Diego Engineering Dean Emeritus Receives NSF Honor

July 9, 2025

Robert “Bob” Conn, dean emeritus of the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, has been named the 2025 recipient of the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Foundation’s National Science Board.

A fully automated tool for species tree inference

May 5, 2025

A team of engineers at UC San Diego is making it easier for researchers from a broad range of backgrounds to understand how different species are evolutionarily related, and support the transformative biological and medical applications that rely on these species trees.

Better Vision Through AI

February 8, 2025

Electrical engineers and ophthalmologists team up to advance computer vision, AI, and image processing tools, helping doctors diagnose faster, predict effective treatments, and improve patient outcomes.

Student-Developed ‘FishSense’ Project Collects Data With One Click

October 23, 2024

UC San Diego’s Engineers for Exploration program — housed at the Jacobs School of Engineering — provides the opportunity for students to tackle real-world problems that do not have predefined solutions.

Open-source Semiconductor Chip Design Tool Celebrates Success

October 16, 2024

In 2018, a team of the nation’s leading semiconductor experts from industry and academia began a five-and-a-half year journey to complete a moonshot challenge: develop electronic design automation (EDA) tools for 24-hour, no-human-in-the-loop semiconductor chip layout generation. Led by UC San Diego and backed with $17.2 million from DARPA, the researchers did it.

Expanding Early Access to Engineering Courses

October 3, 2024

An award-winning UC San Diego electrical engineering class is now offered to Chula Vista high school students right at their own school, during their school day, in an effort to expand earlier access to engineering concepts and skills.
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