July 23, 2020
…for patients and caregivers, Qualcomm Institute’s Prototyping Lab has been lending its equipment and expertise to help combat COVID-19 In the midst of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic that had UC San Diego researchers racing to understand the complexities around the virus’s spread and to find ways to combat it, engineers…
April 16, 2020
…that found their footing at the Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space are working to model disease outbreaks, increase access to offline education and facilitate research on COVID-19 As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, several companies that emerged in the Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space (QIIS) at UC San Diego are using technology in…
March 12, 2015
…Projects Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications One hundred undergraduates, 80 Ph.D. students and 20 postdoctoral scholars all received a big boost to their careers – and UC San Diego made a big investment in the future of interdisciplinary research – through recent competitive awards by the Frontiers of…
May 14, 2020
…Shutterstock/Kateryna Kon Scientists with UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering and the Qualcomm Institute have developed a new gene prediction algorithm, called MINING-D, that could help researchers investigate the genetic clues behind the variation of symptoms shown in COVID-19 patients — information that is key to creating a versatile…
May 11, 2017
…Lab. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Giving Students a Place to Prep for Tomorrow’s Virtual (Reality) Economy Computer science department opens high-tech teaching lab for undergraduates The laboratory looks like a cross between a classroom and a tech pavilion at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.…
February 6, 2020
Lim(b)itless in India: UC San Diego Students Travel Abroad to Empower Amputees The Project Lim(b)itless app creates a 3D digital model of an amputee’s residual limb through a process called photogrammetry, an imaging technique Lin has used to map historical sites around the world. In November, 2019, ten UC San…
June 11, 2020
…massive pelvis lay undisturbed at the bottom of the watery black pit. Approximately four feet across and weighing an estimated 80 pounds, it had once belonged to a giant ground sloth, an elephant-sized animal that roamed the ancient Americas alongside the saber-tooth cat and the woolly mammoth. Sometime during its…
February 26, 2024
Qualcomm Institute Director Ramesh Rao chats with Roland Lee and Mingxiong Huang, who co-direct QI’s new Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Center on the underpinnings of the advanced brain imaging technique, the making of the new facility, and MEG’s contributions to research and patient care.
