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UC San Diego Engineer Talks Tech with Congressional Staff in Washington, D.C.

May 19, 2017

UC San Diego electrical engineering professor Patrick Mercier met with staff members working for representatives for San Diego County and for California Senator Dianne Feinstein at an event on Capitol Hill, where he showcased wearable technologies that have the potential to revolutionize access to health care. 

New Study Shows Noninvasive Brain Imaging Can Distinguish Among Hand Gestures

May 19, 2023

Researchers have found a way to distinguish among hand gestures that people are making by examining only data from noninvasive brain imaging, without information from the hands. The results are an early step in a safe brain-computer interface that may one day help patients with movement challenges.

Computer Science Professor Rajesh Gupta Receives One of Computing’s Most Prestigious Honors

April 2, 2019

Rajesh Gupta, a professor of computer science and engineering at University of California San Diego, has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society 2019 W. Wallace McDowell Award for his “seminal contributions in design and implementation of microelectronic systems-on-chip and cyberphysical systems.”

SDSC to Participate in Obama Administration’s ‘Smart Manufacturing’ Initiative

June 24, 2016

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego will participate in a comprehensive national initiative announced by the White House this week to spur advances in digital process controls to improve the efficiency of U.S. manufacturing.

Qualcomm Institute’s CARI Therapeutics Awarded NIH Grant for Opioid Sensor

August 10, 2017

QI Innovation Space member CARI Therapeutics has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to collaboratively develop a biosensor that will detect the presence of opioids in patients in recovery.

Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly

September 1, 2015

Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body. The new technology could offer a lower power and more secure way to communicate information between wearable electronic devices, providing an improved alternative to existing…

New Engineering Research Centers at UC San Diego will be Highlighted at Research Expo

February 25, 2015

…faculty talks will focus on cutting-edge research in wearable sensors, extreme events research, sustainable power and energy, and visual computing. Learn more about the agile research centers project here.

New NSF Grant Pairs Green Ocean Technology with Needed Earthquake Sensors

October 6, 2011

Combining recently launched green technology for navigating the oceans with the need to address gaps in critical earthquake information across the globe, scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been granted $1.02 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a cutting-edge deep-ocean seismic system. With…

New Electron Beam Writer Enables Next-Gen Biomedical and Information Technologies

August 12, 2013

The new electron beam writer housed in the Nano3 cleanroom facility at the Qualcomm Institute is important for electrical engineering professor Shadi Dayeh’s two major areas of research.

The Next Generation of Robotics from UC San Diego in the Spotlight at IROS 2023

October 6, 2023

From helping wounded soldiers in the field, to helping robots avoid obstacles in the field, and more, researchers from the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute made a strong showing at IROS 2023.

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