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RMCOE – New Online Masters Degree

New Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL) program expands access to UCSB’s engineering education for working professionals worldwide ...
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ECE Seminar Series — May 1 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Digital Twins for Inspection of Direct Ink Write Additive Manufacturing," Brian Giera, Director, Data Science Institute, LLNL

Inspection presents the largest bottleneck in the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) manufacturing enterprise and is as much as 4x more costly than fabrication itself. On top of this, ...
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April 13 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: “Scaling, Stacking, and Cracking the Memory Wall,” Shyam Surthi, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Micron Technology

Location: Harold Frank Hall (HFH), Room 4108 (ECE Conf. Rm.) AI has exposed an inconvenient truth: computation is no longer the bottleneck — memory is. Despite decades of aggressive scaling, modern ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Mar 6 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Six Mini Talks" by ECE PhD Students

This seminar features short research talks covering a range of topics across AI, photonics, communications, control, and computing systems. Learn about ongoing work in the department and connect with ...
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Tech Titans – Santa Barbara & UCSB

The South Coast’s emergence has come largely from cutting-edge companies clustering around the latest technologies, from computing and lasers to infrared radiation and space engineering. Many were ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Dec 8 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: “Vector Search: High Throughput and Robust Query Processing and Modern Benchmarks,” Teemu Roos, Prof, CS, U of Helsinki

The rapidly evolving field of vector databases offers solutions for many real-world AI pipelines, including retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and multimodal semantic search. These pipelines require ...
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Dec 3 (Wed) @9:00am: "Improving Friction Modeling for Robotics via Physics Informed Neural Networks," Asutay Ozmen, ECE PhD Defense

Location: Harold Frank Hall (HFH), Room 4110B (ECE Conf. Rm.) Accurately modeling friction in robotics remains a core challenge, as robotics simulators like Mujoco and PyBullet use simplified friction ...
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Dec 1 (Mon) @ 1:00pm: "Adaptive Methods for Prediction and Frame Reconstruction in Video Coding," Zeyu Deng, ECE PhD Defense

Efficient video compression relies heavily on accurate block prediction and effective frame reconstruction, both of which depend on statistical models that capture the characteristics of the encoded ...
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ECE Seminar Series (GSA) – Three Mini Talks by ECE PhD Students

Three short talks by UCSB PhD students Roark Chao, Poorva Shukla, and Abdelrahman S. Abdelrahman presenting a wide array of ECE topics from photonics to dynamical systems to quantum algorithms. All ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Oct 31 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Signal Processing Meets RF Hardware: Compensating RF Nonidealities in Future Wireless Systems,” Nuutti Tervo, Visiting ...

Radio frequency (RF) transmitters and receivers contain multiple nonideal hardware components. In modern transceiver architectures, understanding their behavior and properties is essential for ...
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Sep 9 (Tues) @ 2:00PM: "Optimization of Emerging Relaying Paradigms in Next-Generation Communication Networks," Winston Hurst, ECE PhD Defense

Zoom Meeting: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/88579819067?pwd=4ajB7I2IC8XscRDssQUU2YdkDSKHPn.1 Next-generation communication systems will leverage emerging paradigms to ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Jun 6 (Fri) @ 2:00 pm: “Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits, John E. Bowers, Dir. of the Inst. for Energy Efficiency and Prof. ECE and Materials, UCSB

Tremendous progress is being made at silicon photonic foundries around the world to improve the performance, yield and capability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and that is opening up new ...