January 24, 2019
…on Egg Shells Scientists-in-the-making learn STEM skills as part of physics outreach program YPP student participants launch their egg parachute. Photo by Michelle Fredricks A flurry of egg parachutes carefully crafted from orange-tinted bubble wrap, duct tape, cardboard and trash bags rained down on the grounds outside UC San Diego’s…
November 7, 2023
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1 million to an interdisciplinary UC San Diego research team to build a first-of-its-kind, super-resolution microscope for advancements in the biomedical sciences.
August 6, 2020
…Science major, specializing in machine learning and neurocomputation. He decided to attend UC San Diego because he wants to pursue neuroeconomics in the longer term—an interdisciplinary field focused on prediction and decision-making in humans. There is a significant computational aspect to neuroeconomics, so he was excited to pair with Associate…
March 8, 2018
…know…The best way to learn is by doing. Think strategically about what trajectory you want to follow, and then work backwards from there when choosing your extracurricular activities. Also, make time for randomness, and especially make time to go to Blacks Beach — start surfing! Her favorite museum is…The Exploratorium…
March 30, 2017
This year’s week-long “Summer Institute” workshop held by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will focus on a wide range of introductory-to-intermediate topics in high-performance computing (HPC) and data science for researchers in academia and industry, especially those in domains that have not traditionally used HPC resources.
March 17, 2022
Two bioengineers at the University of California San Diego will be inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Professors Stephanie Fraley and Prashant Mali are among the 153 new AIMBE Fellows of 2022.
June 27, 2013
Jacobs School of Engineering professors Karen Christman and Gert Lanckriet are among 81 of the nation’s most “creative young engineers” selected to attend this year’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium by the National Academy of Engineering.
August 7, 2015
This year’s NASIT will feature lectures and workshops by professors from Stanford, USC, Carnegie Mellon and UC Irvine on a wide range of topics, including managing signal interference, optimizing data analysis and channel models for biological communications.
August 6, 2024
Through a unique and long-standing collaboration, electrical engineers at UC San Diego are embedded in Jacobs Retina Center to partner with ophthalmologists to develop better computer vision, AI, and image processing tools to help physicians diagnose patients faster and more accurately; predict which drugs will be most successful for specific…
December 10, 2013
Are you a hipster, surfer or biker? What is your urban tribe? Your computer may soon be able to tell. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, are developing an algorithm that uses group pictures to determine to which of these groups, or urban tribes, you belong. So…
