Emily Cerf
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Mitigating risks in free-flowing AI chatbot conversations
The NSF CAREER Award-funded research will focus on addiction-recovery and teenage mental health scenarios, but can be applied to any chatbot use.
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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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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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‘Parent’ blood cells act as a buffer against the effects of aging
A new study shows cells called multipotent progenitors protect blood cell production and function
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UC Santa Cruz researchers at NASA COFFIES Science Center make breakthrough on solar enigma
Researchers are closer to unraveling a long-standing solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the Sun’s tachocline layer
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Partnership with Oxford Nanopore Technologies will support development of RNA liquid biopsy for cancer early detection
The technology screens for cancer, and even abnormal “precancerous” cells, using a simple blood draw.
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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.



