ECE Assoc. Prof. Zheng Zhang among four potentially high-impact projects seeking to solve critical energy-efficiency challenges have been awarded more than $240,000 in cumulative funding related to ...

ECE Prof. Kaustav Banerjee elected by the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) as a 2024 JSAP Fellow International Kaustav Banerjee has been elected for his "contributions to nanoelectronics design ...

Growing demands of data centers, especially with the rise of AI and machine learning workloads, require critical advancements in high-speed, energy-efficient optical communication systems due to the ...

Excerpt from The UCSB Current article "Best in Building" The sleek and shimmering modern building that houses UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency is earning major accolades for its ...

Excerpt from UCSB Daily Nexus – "California Governor Appoints New University of California Regent: Jose Hernández" Hernández applied to be a UC Regent three years ago after finishing a nine-year term ...

Postdoc Chunfeng Cui and her supervisor Prof. Zheng Zhang receive a best paper award from IEEE Transactions Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology The editors of the journal selected Cui’s ...

ECE PhD student Jennifer Volk receives “Best Student Paper in Electronics – Second Place” with former UCSB CS student Georgios Tzimpragos (now Ass’t. Prof at UMich) and MIT Lincoln Lab researchers The ...

ECE Profs. Galan Moody and John Bowers and others from Caltech, MIT, UVA, and Nexus Photonics receive a nearly $10M grant from the DoD through DARPA to develop next-gen optical detectors From the COE ...

Profs. U. Mishra, S. DenBaars & S. Nakamura part of the history of UCSB's Material Research Lab's Interdisciplinary Research Groups Excerpt from the article in The COE/CLS Convergence magazine (Fall ...

Thirty years ago, UCSB inventors had no clear path for taking ideas to the marketplace. Now they do. Here’s how it happened. There is no definitive starting point for entrepreneurship at UC Santa ...

UCSB is one of six universities in the world and the only institution in the U.S. to be selected as an inaugural member of Microsoft’s Optics for the Cloud Research Alliance. (Blumenthal) ...