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Program Accelerates Early-Career Faculty Research for Engineers and Computer Scientists

February 12, 2025

Six teams from the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been awarded funding through the School’s unique program designed to accelerate interdisciplinary research collaborations for early-career faculty.

UC San Diego a Key Part of New Project Led by General Atomics to Advance Fusion Energy

February 10, 2025

The University of California San Diego is part of a new research partnership led by San Diego-based General Atomics that was recently awarded funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

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.

UC San Diego Professor Honored by Sony and Nature for Bioengineering Research

February 4, 2025

Bioengineering Professor Kiana Aran is one of three inaugural winners of the Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature. She is recognized for her pioneering work fusing biology with electronics to enhance precision medicine.

Computer Science Undergrad Earns Top Honors in Prestigious Competition–a First for UC San Diego

February 4, 2025

UC San Diego computer science and engineering undergraduate Venkataram Sivaram is the first student from the university to receive the prestigious Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.

UC San Diego Hosts Hands-On Workshop for Researchers Interested in Advocating on Capitol Hill

January 30, 2025

A group of UC San Diego researchers and staff gathered for one of the first events in an Office of Research and Innovation series designed to help researchers on campus increase funding for their work and field of study.

Momentum for Fusion Energy in California Continues at UC Workshop

January 27, 2025

Researchers from several campuses at the University of California and national labs, as well as companies focused on fusion, converged on the UC San Diego campus in early December.

Scaling up Neuromorphic Computing for More Efficient and Effective AI Everywhere and Anytime

January 23, 2025

Neuromorphic computing—a field that applies principles of neuroscience to computing systems to mimic the brain’s function and structure—needs to scale up if it is to effectively compete with current computing methods. In a review published Jan. 22 in the journal Nature, 23 researchers, including two from the University of California San Diego, present a detailed roadmap of what needs to happen to reach that goal.

New Tool Enables Phylogenomic Analyses of Entire Genomes

January 23, 2025

Researchers led by electrical engineers at UC San Diego have developed a better way to perform the comparative analysis of entire genomes. This approach can be used to study relationships between different species across geological time scales.

Why Our Biological Clock Ticks: Research Reconciles Major Theories of Aging

January 21, 2025

Two major theories of aging both involve DNA, but in very different ways. Researchers at UC San Diego have revealed that these theories may not be so different after all.
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