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Innovative Researchers Share Ground-breaking Research with Packed House at Founders’ Symposium

November 20, 2012

…Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications It’s not often you can go to an event and be asked to leave your cell phone on to share thoughts via social media. At the Founders’ Symposium held Friday, however, that was exactly the case. Event moderator and UC San Diego alumna Lauren Reynolds…

$18.5 Million Alumni Gift Lifts UC San Diego’s Computer Science & Engineering into New Era

June 6, 2013

…Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications An $18.5 million gift from a UC San Diego alumnus will set the computer science and engineering department on a new course into the future, funding new faculty endowed chairs, top-of-the-line teaching labs, support for graduate students, and expanded mentoring and tutoring programs for the…

UC San Diego Earns Four Prestigious CASE Awards

June 13, 2013

…Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Nearly 3,000 entries from higher education institutions and nonprofits around the world were considered by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for this year’s Circle of Excellence Awards for outstanding work in advancement services, alumni relations, communications, fundraising and marketing initiatives. Only…

Creating an Early Alert System for COVID-19

April 2, 2020

…signs of infection—including among healthcare workers To better understand early signs of coronavirus and the virus’ spread, physicians around the country and data scientists at UC San Diego are working together to use a wearable device to monitor more than 12,000 people, including thousands of healthcare workers. The effort is…

Robots to Help Children Touch the Outside World

September 17, 2020

…robotics curriculum will be publicly available online and feature introductory concepts in robotics as well as information about the evolving roles of robots in our society. The project will yield new knowledge in multiple fields, including robotics, education, and healthcare. It will promote the progress of science by exploring how…

Computer Software Accurately Predicts Student Test Performance

April 15, 2014

The University of California, San Diego and Emotient, the leading provider of facial expression recognition data and analysis, announced publication of a joint study by two Emotient co-founders affiliated with UC San Diego, together with researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia State University.

Transcranial Electrical Stimulation Shows Promise for Treating Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

September 28, 2017

Using a form of low-impulse electrical stimulation to the brain, documented by neuroimaging, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System 〈VASDHS〉 and collaborators elsewhere, report significantly improved neural function in participants with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI).

New Method Makes Better Predictions of Material Properties Using Low Quality Data

January 14, 2021

By combining large amounts of low-fidelity data with smaller quantities of high-fidelity data, nanoengineers at UC San Diego have developed a machine learning method to more accurately predict the properties of new materials including, for the first time, disordered materials.

Passion and Persistence Fuel Biotech Startup

November 15, 2022

The startup AquilX seeks to commercialize a wearable device that offers a “lab under the skin.” But for Farshad Tehrani, the firm represents so much more.

UC San Diego Graduate Student Awarded Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship

December 11, 2024

Shibo Hao, a graduate student in UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) within the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS), was awarded the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship.

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