February 2, 2017
Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student C. Ailie Fraser has been awarded one of ten Adobe Research Fellowships in 2017 to pursue her work in human-computer interaction and human-centered design as a researcher in the Design Lab at UC San Diego.
August 1, 2016
A team of physicists and biologists at the University of California San Diego took an exacting computational look at how migratory birds use warm, rising atmospheric currents to gain height with little energy expenditure when flying over long distances.
October 12, 2022
Atmospheric rivers are narrow bands of moisture-laden air, often more than a thousand miles long and a few hundred miles wide, that affect precipitation around the world. Forecasting their impact is especially important in the western United States where they can account for up to 50% of rainfall.
February 12, 2021
A futuristic system of flying taxis and shuttles is one step closer to reality thanks to a team of engineers led by UC San Diego. They received a $5.8 million grant from NASA to create computational design tools that will help US companies develop more efficient air taxi designs.
April 24, 2012
…includes two hospital floors, computer servers, fire barriers and even a working elevator, through a series of high-intensity earthquakes? Structural engineers at the University of California, San Diego began to get some answers last week, when they launched a series of tests conducted on the world’s largest outdoor shake table…
September 7, 2023
Researchers turned to a descendant variety of Hass—the world’s most popular avocado—to explore the fruit’s evolutionary history through its genome.
January 23, 2023
Farinaz Koushanfar, a professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego, has been named one of 57 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2022.
December 3, 2015
…networks and improvements in computer simulations that gave scientists a jump on the 1997-98 event. Scripps Oceanography development engineer David Black assembles a Deep SOLO instrument, designed to augment ocean measurements in the global Argo network. After that El Niño, an international network of research floats designed primarily by Scripps…
May 19, 2022
…bring together imagining, modeling, simulation testing and 3D-printing to create low-cost, one-piece prostheses that can be tailored specifically to match user needs. Preliminary, proof-of-concept studies with lower-limb amputees have shown the potential of this approach. The project was housed in the Qualcomm Institute here on campus. LIMBER cofounder Luca De…
March 1, 2018
…Kannan, a fourth year computer science student at UC San Diego, had no interest in virtual reality (VR) until one fateful hackathon four years ago. “When I was a freshman, I went to a virtual reality hackathon and it pretty much changed my college career,” Kannan said. “I was a…
