Engineering
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Two UC Santa Cruz faculty win NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards
The two awardees are Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jaron Mercer and Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Andy Yeh
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Ashesh Chattopadhyay named Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow
Chattopadhyay will build steerable AI for science models with the prestigious fellowship
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UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer lab earns prestigious CAP accreditation
The accreditation is widely regarded as the gold standard for clinical laboratory quality, and cements the credibility of the lab’s unique analyses for pediatric cancer tumors.
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Mitigating risks in free-flowing AI chatbot conversations
The NSF CAREER Award-funded research will focus on safety in addiction-recovery and teenage mental health scenarios, but can be applied to any chatbot use.
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UC Santa Cruz community members honored with UC Regents Innovation Awards
The UC Regents awards, announced Sept. 16, honored 23 people in five categories.
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Partnership with Fujitsu enables long-term impact forecasting of climate risks
Ashesh Chattopadhyay and Fujitsu Research are developing actionable AI-based climate models that reduce resource-guzzling computation time from months to minutes
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CITRIS Interdisciplinary Innovation Program (I2P) funds two campus projects
The 2026-27 I2P call for proposals was open to projects focused on information technology solutions to significant societal challenges in any focus area.
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Apply now for the 2027 UCSC CIDER Drone Pilot Training Program
The CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) is offering a Pilot Training Program for UCSC undergraduate students during the Winter and Spring quarters.
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NIH grant supports bringing complete genome sequencing from the lab to the clinic
A $2.9 million R01 research award from the National Institutes of Health will support the efforts of engineers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute to further develop and drive down the cost of complete genome sequencing technology.
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Exploring cybersecurity needs for energy-efficient analog computing
Baskin Engineering hardware security expert Dustin Richmond will study vulnerabilities in compute-in-memory architectures with the support of an NSF CAREER Award.
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Five UC Santa Cruz innovators nominated for inaugural UC Regents Innovation Awards
The campus’s nominees span innovations in climate adaptation, disease treatment, health and community development.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Allysa Kazhe at Apple
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Allysa Kazhe(John R. Lewis ’25, electrical engineering) is an engineering program manager at Apple.