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Downtown Change Makers Event Features ‘Professor Algae’ Stephen Mayfield

August 17, 2016

UC San Diego’s Professor Stephen Mayfield, a pioneer in exploring the uses of algae for fuels, medicine, food and other purposes, is the featured speaker at this year’sthe inaugural launch of the “Change Makers” eventseries, set for 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at the Downtown San Diego Partnership, 401 B Street , Suite100.

Nowhere to Hide: UC San Diego Researchers Devise New Method for Detecting Hardware Trojans

August 12, 2016

To prevent, detect and combat hardware Trojans at any level of the supply chain, UC San Diego computer scientists and their collaborators have devised a new technique that tracks information flow through a circuit’s logic gates.The technique is described in the cover story in the August 2016 edition of IEEE Computer.

UC San Diego, SDSU to Roll Out Research Platform to Improve Hearing-Aid Technologies

August 10, 2016

Armed with a $2 million grant from NIH, UC San Diego engineers and SDSU audiologists will build and deploy two new platforms on which researchers can develop better hearing aids. The project is led by Qualcomm Institute research scientist Hari Garudadri.

UC San Diego’s New Tokyo Office Advances Key Research Goals

August 10, 2016

Sandra Brown, UC San Diego’s Vice Chancellor for Research, explained during her visit there why the university’s new office in Tokyo, Japan – and its first overseas – was a good match of interests and resources.

Crowdsourcing the Transformation of Mass Spectrometry Big Data into Scientific Living Data

August 9, 2016

A team of 127 co-authors led by UC San Diego faculty from computer science and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy report in Nature Biotechnology on the successful rollout of Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) that lets scientists share mass spectrometry data worldwide to speed the search for potentially valuable molecules in natural products.

“Impressed by Our Transformation:”  A Q&A with Rubén Flores, Director of Commercialization

August 5, 2016

Rubén Flores, Ph.D., is the Director of Commercialization in UC San Diego’s Office of Innovation and Commercialization. Announcing his appointment in March of this year, Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown said that he exemplifies the high-achieving entrepreneurial spirit necessary for new discoveries and new solutions.

SMART Study Among First to Use Social and Mobile Tools for Weight Loss

August 4, 2016

SMART study is among the first to test an intervention that used several technologies – including social media, apps, and text messaging – to promote healthy changes in physical activity and diet. At two years in duration, it was also one of few weight loss interventions evaluated for longer than a year.

Accelerating Design Times for High-Performance Systems-on-Chip

July 27, 2016

Computer scientists and engineers from four U.S. universities led by UC San Diego professor Rajesh Gupta, were awarded nearly $5 million in funding from DARPA to speed design times for high performance systems-on-chips.

For New QI Circuits Labs Technical Director ‘The Best is Yet to Come’

July 26, 2016

If not included, the first paragraph from release will be used): Vincent (Wingching) Leung's combination of industry and academic experience positions him as an ideal candidate to take the helm at the QI Circuits Labs.

KnuEdge, UC San Diego Host Conference to Drive Next-Gen Machine Learning

July 26, 2016

A Heterogeneous Neural Networks Conference is set for spring 2017, a joint effort between KnuEdge and Calit2's Qualcomm Institute on neural computing to accelerate machine learning and signal processing. Prior to the meeting, the two institutions will launch a Competition in the same area to seek bold new idea for the application of neural networking and computing for data-intensive applications, including signal processing.
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