Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Marco Rolandi appointed faculty director of UCSC Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development
UC Santa Cruz has appointed Marco Rolandi, professor and chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering, to serve as faculty director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED).
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Shiva Abbaszadeh wins Tracy Lynn Faber Memorial Award
The award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging supports the advancement of women in medical imaging sciences.
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$3.7M NIH grant funds development of novel biosensor technology for diagnosing viral infections
Electrical engineer Ali Yanik is leading a team of infectious disease experts developing a low-cost, easy-to-use platform for diagnosing viral infections in point-of-care settings.
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Bioelectronic device achieves unprecedented control of cell membrane voltage
A closed-loop biohybrid device driven by a machine learning algorithm maintained a set membrane voltage in human stem cells for 10 hours.
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UCSC engineers developing all-electric power train for future aircraft
Funding from the Department of Energy for the UCSC team is part of a major effort to develop carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation.
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CITRIS UCSC funds new pandemic-related research projects
The campus seed funding program is providing $40K grants for three new projects to address the challenges of COVID-19.
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A new challenge for engineering students’ capstone projects—COVID-19
Engineering students always face obstacles in completing their senior capstone projects, but the pandemic created unique challenges for this year’s teams.
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New optical technique provides more efficient probe of nanomagnet dynamics
Data storage devices and other emerging technologies use magnetic elements smaller than 100 nanometers, but studying their magnetization dynamics can be a challenge.
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Engineer Ricardo Sanfelice receives ‘test of time’ award for influential paper
Ricardo Sanfelice, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the 2020 Test-of-Time Award from the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) conference.
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UCSC thin-film expertise to help develop NASA’s next generation of space telescopes
Engineer Nobuhiko Kobayashi’s expertise in thin-film technology could improve the performance of NASA’s next generation of space telescopes.
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Electrical engineer Keith Corzine elected IEEE Fellow
Keith Corzine, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Engineer Holger Schmidt elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Holger Schmidt, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.