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Mostofi & Korany – IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Paper Award

The IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper is a prestigious award given to one paper each year, from a large pool of IEEE Communications Society-related journals and transactions over the past ...
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ECE Featured News: "$5M NSF Grant Supports Advances in Cyberstructure for Multimodal Imaging Data"

UCSB professor B. S. Manjunath, an expert on computer vision/AI, along with collaborators Tresa Pollock, professor in the Materials Department, and Beth Pruitt, professor in and chair of the ...
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Aug 16th (Fri) @ 10:00 am: “Photonic Architectures for In-Memory Computing Using Nonvolatile Optical Materials,” Nathan Youngblood, Ass’t. Prof., ECE, Pitt

Abstract Photonics information processing strategies offer the unique ability to perform analog computation with ultra-low latency and high efficiency. However, designing compact and reconfigurable ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Jun 6 (Fri) @ 2:00 pm: “Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits, John E. Bowers, Dir. of the Inst. for Energy Efficiency and Prof. ECE and Materials, UCSB

Tremendous progress is being made at silicon photonic foundries around the world to improve the performance, yield and capability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and that is opening up new ...
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Aug 9 (Mon) @ 2pm: "Machine Learning Techniques for Rare Failure Detection in Analog and Mixed-Signal Verification and Test," Hanbin Hu, ECE PhD Defense

Due to inherent complex behaviors and stringent requirements in analog and mixed-signal (AMS) systems, verification and testing become key bottlenecks in the product development cycle. Rare failure ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Oct 10 (Fri) @ 2:00 PM: "Co-Packaged Optical Transceivers for HPC, Data Center, and AI Applications," Daniel M. Kuchta, Principal Hardware System ...

This talk will cover the status of co-packaging efforts, both VCSEL- and SiPh-based, where they fit into the Ethernet switch market and the evolving Computer IO market, and how these technologies are ...
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Feb 18 (Tue) @10am: "Quantum Nanophotonics Using Heterogeneous Materials Integration: From Single Photons to Integrated Lasers,” Richard Mirin, NIST

The Quantum Nanophotonics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO develops new semiconducting and superconducting technologies for advanced metrology needs ...
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Aug 28 (Mon) @ 3:30pm:” Millimeter-Wave GaN Device Modeling and Circuit Design,” Rohit Reddy Karnaty, ECE PhD Defense

Gallium Nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) offer significant advantages in microwave power applications, yet their scaling for high power in millimeter-wave (mmW) bands presents ...
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Sep 18 (Wed) @ 11:00am: "High Performance Quantum Dot Gain Devices for Heterogeneous Integration on Silicon Photonics," Chongxin (Tyler) Zhang, ECE PhD Defense

In the past decades, most telecom, datacom, and sensor systems have been developed based on discrete optical components. As the demand for data transfer is rapidly rising, the need to reduce cost, ...
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Yulun Wang, PhD EE '88: SoCalBio Honor

The achievement award is selected by SoCalBio Innovation Catalysts Program members. The Southern California Biomedical Council is a nonprofit, member supported trade association that supports and ...
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May 10 (Mon): "The Impact of Information in Cooperative and Noncooperative Systems," David Grimsman, ECE PhD Defense

Large-scale autonomous systems are those with many components that act based on individual preferences. No component can access all information within the system, due to time or computation ...