Electrical & Computer Engineering
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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.
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UC Santa Cruz is building better detection for rare form of cancer
New five-year NIH-funded project aims to transform the detection of synovial sarcoma using advanced single-molecule analysis
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UC Santa Cruz’s first student-built satellite deployed from International Space Station
Hundreds of miles above Earth, a small satellite built by University of California, Santa Cruz students deployed from the International Space Station on July 2, 2026, becoming the university’s first student-built satellite to reach space.
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Nine projects receive seed funding from the Genomics Institute
From listening to the electrical signals of fungal networks in fire-scarred forests to training AI models that can interpret the most complex regions of the human genome, this year’s cohort is using genomics in bold new applications.
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Stem cell education platform strengthens students’ identity as scientists
Hispanic and first-generation college students are particularly positively impacted by the Braingeneers group’s technology
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Students create agentic AI at first UC Santa Cruz hackathon with NVIDIA, ASUS
Dedicated students spent 24 hours hacking, and had the opportunity to use cutting-edge AI hardware brought to UC Santa Cruz for the event.
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The frontier of brain science: AI and organoid research takes center stage in Silicon Valley
At a meeting of minds, researchers discussed a platform that could finally reveal the intimate workings of the human brain, and what happens if we succeed.
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Engineering student wins NVIDIA Agents for Impact Hackathon
Preet Karia built an AI-powered tool to turn physics notes into 3D visualizations.
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Grants support DIY irrigation and smart, electric tractors for specialty crop growers
Two projects are receiving support from the USDA 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.
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Brain organoids can be trained to solve a goal-directed task
UC Santa Cruz researchers are exploring how brains learn, adapt, and improve, which could help us better understand and address neurological conditions.
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‘Petri Dish 2.0’: A new startup is bringing automation to biology’s most tedious tasks
Open Culture Science, a revolutionary new startup out of the UC Genomics Institute’s Braingeneers group, aims to accelerate the pace of biological research with their patented technology.