Engineering
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AI Wildfire Modeling Expands Beyond The West As Climate Risks Shift
Fire Oracle, one of the projects developed at the Reboot the Earth hackathon hosted by the United Nations and the UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering, uses machine learning to accelerate prescribed burn planning.
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Our Brains May Have Pre-Configured Instructions to Understand the World When We’re Born
Using lab-grown brain organoids, scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz led by Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf found that neurons begin firing in recognizable, information-like patterns long before any sensory system is active. Additional coverage in StudyFinds and The Debrief.
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Smart Bandage Uses Electricity and Drugs to Heal Wounds
A multidisciplinary research team led by Marco Rolandi, professor of electrical and computer engineering, developed a smart bandage that could speed up wound healing by actively tracking and responding to the healing process.
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Santa Cruz’s king tides: How experts and residents are taking part in research
The Santa Cruz Sentinel highlighted work by Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Alex Pang and graduate student Mona Zhao to use webcams, machine learning, and 3D modeling to track how beaches shift from day to day.
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How a Stomach Flu-Causing Virus Sneaks into Human Cells
The Scientist featured work led by Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Rebecca DuBois to study how human astroviruses bind to human cells at a molecular level, which could inform new preventive and therapeutic strategies.
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High school student leads heart rate monitoring innovation at UC Santa Cruz
KSBW featured work developed in Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Katia Obraczka’s lab that uses WiFi to wirelessly monitor heart rate.
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AI Model Digs Up Rare Somatic Variants for Precision Oncology Pipelines
Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Benedict Paten spoke about new methods developed to find elusive DNA mutations that occur only in tumor cells.
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US serial killer case opens door to using cutting-edge DNA data in courts
Prosecutors contracted the company Astrea Forensics, a forensic genetic genealogy company co-founded by Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Richard “Ed” Green, who developed the methods used in this case. The technology cleared a ‘Frye hearing’, proving that it has been accepted by the scientific community and opening the door for the use of this DNA evidence…
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UC Santa Cruz engineers unveil AI wearable to speed wound healing
KSBW features a-Heal, a wound-healing device developed by Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Marco Rolandi, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mircea Teodorescu, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics Marcella Gomez and collaborators at UC Davis.
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As a new state bill pushes back against license plate cameras, Watsonville looks to add more
Ram Sundara Raman, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UC Santa Cruz, said there is a troubling lack of transparency and oversight in Flock Safety’s data practices.
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Do humans and chimps really share nearly 99% of their DNA?
David Haussler, distinguished professor of bimolecular engineering and scientific director at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, weighed in on the truth behind the frequently cited 98.8% similarity between chimp and human DNA.
