March 28, 2017
INRIA, the French national institute for computer science and applied mathematics, has created a new International Chair and appointed UC San Diego computer engineer Rajesh Gupta to the part-time position. Gupta will spend up to a year in France spread over the five-year appointment, starting this summer.
February 19, 2020
UC San Diego bioengineers developed a control system that could make CAR T-cell therapy safer and more powerful when treating cancer. By programming CAR T cells to switch on when exposed to blue light, the researchers controlled the cells to destroy skin tumors in mice without harming healthy tissue
May 13, 2015
Meet Tinker the Robot. UC San Diego mechanical engineering alumnus (2007) Kay Yang created him to teach and inspire young children to play with robots.
September 29, 2016
…don’t love being an engineer? You think you’d rather be a journalist? Great. For the next five years be the most amazing engineer you can be… Learn and solve the problems you think are important. And then start over again. Imagine how you will see the world differently than all…
February 21, 2024
Innovations in the form of multi-scale sensors and devices, creation of humanoid avatars and the development of exceptionally realistic predictive models driven by AI can radically change our lifestyles and response to pathologies.
July 6, 2014
Biologists at UC San Diego have solved a long-standing mystery concerning the way plants reduce the numbers of their breathing pores in response to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
June 13, 2019
…used methods rooted in engineering to try to answer these types of questions and make art in the process. Robert Twomey, a postdoctoral researcher in the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, taught the class, which is offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Twomey teaches students…
June 8, 2017
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, has appointed Christopher Irving as manager of the Center’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, effective June 1, 2017.
April 17, 2012
…depths. That’s where the engineering know-how of Kevin Hardy and other Scripps researchers comes into play. Hardy, a Scripps research engineer, has developed telephone-booth-size landers that are dropped to the seafloor. The landers, technically know as Deep Ocean Vehicles (DOVs), are equipped with an acoustic beacon on top that Cameron…
October 4, 2018
…like to be an engineer; and experienced life as a college student. While they were helping build batteries, they were also building bridges between the United States and Mexico: Mendez attends high school in San Diego, while Martinez is a student in Tijuana. They were two of more than 100…
