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Brain Research at UC San Diego Brings Excitement to Celebration of Former Engineering Dean

May 2, 2013

Within days of each other, Robert W. Conn recently made two trips to Washington, D.C. to meet President Barack Obama at the White House. The Dean Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, Dr. Conn is President of The Kavli Foundation.

A New Brain-computer Interface with a Flexible Backing

March 16, 2022

Engineering researchers have invented an advanced brain-computer interface with a flexible and moldable backing and penetrating microneedles. Adding a flexible backing to this kind of brain-computer interface allows the device to more evenly conform to the brain’s complex curved surface.

UC San Diego Researchers Awarded $2 Million from NIH to Visualize Human Brain’s Magnetic Activity

August 14, 2023

UC San Diego researchers at the Qualcomm Institute will use a $2 million NIH award to purchase a new, non-invasive machine to study the magnetic fields of the human brain. The research has applications in epilepsy, concussions and more.

Engineers Receive SunShot Grant to Develop Less Costly, More Efficient Solar Collectors

July 28, 2016

University of California San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Boubacar Kante will lead a three-year, $2.5 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative aimed at making solar energy systems cost-competitive with traditional energy sources.

NSF Awards Database Grant to Improve Efficiency of Sensor Data Analytics

September 2, 2014

September 1 was the start date of an important new project for two faculty experts in databases and machine learning at the University of California, San Diego. Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) professor Yannis Papakonstantinou in the Jacobs School of Engineering is principal investigator on a $1.1 million new project…

Scientists ‘Game’ for Remote-control Chemistry of the Future

March 19, 2019

Theoretical chemists at UC San Diego mix molecules and light in optical cavities in a promising study recently published in the Cell Press journal Chem.

Osher Foundation Donates $500,000 to Scholarships for UC San Diego Transfer Students

August 28, 2012

…Colleges System. These funds will support a new scholarship award for high-achieving student parents who transfer to UC San Diego and have financial need.

NSF Awards $1.2 Million to UCSD/UCLA to Pinpoint Unused Space in Wireless Spectrum

October 25, 2013

A research collaboration between the University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles has been awarded $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation to enable smartphones, sensors and other software-defined radio devices to rapidly and precisely pinpoint bands of unused radio spectrum and eliminate any existing signal interference.

Award-Winning SeedMeLab Grows with New Software-as-a-Service

April 21, 2021

With hundreds of active installations and a new award, SeedMeLab is launching its new Software-as-a-Service to benefit researchers.

UC San Diego Team Achieves Petaflop-Level Earthquake Simulations on GPU-Powered Supercomputers

April 2, 2013

A team of researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a highly scalable computer code that promises to dramatically cut both research times and energy costs in simulating seismic hazards throughout California…

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