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Four ECE professors receive prestigious NSF CAREER Awards

Four ECE faculty members received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards this year. This is a remarkable record for a single department. NSF CAREER Awards are given to assistant professors to fund research that is expected to form a firm...
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A robot that tells growers when to water crops is on the way

A group of researchers from UC Riverside and UC Merced have received a grant for more than $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through the National Science Foundation’s National Robotics Initiative to address these challenges. From UC Riverside...
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ECE Student received Best Student Paper Award at ISITA 2020

ECE Ph.D. candidate Navid Gharavi has received Best Student Paper Award for the paper "Codes for high-noise memoryless channels" presented at the 2020 International Symposium on Information Theory and Application (ISITA) . The paper co-authored with ECE Professor Ilya Dumer...
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Alexander Balandin co-leads the thermal thrust of a new DOE Energy Frontier Research Center

ECE Distinguished Professor Alexander A. Balandin is part of a new U.S. Department of Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) that aims to create a more resilient and sustainable electricity grid by using next-generation materials. The center is led by Arizona...
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Research Highlights

Electromagnetic Interference Shielding with Graphene Composites for 5G-and-Beyond Communication Technologies

Discovering new type of vulnerabilities affecting Graphical Processing Units

Upcycling plastic waste toward sustainable energy storage

Towards Terahertz Electronic Devices

Tseng and his student’s paper is chosen for IEEE Micro Top Picks 2020

Quantum Supremacy paper coauthored by Korotkov

This deep neural network fights deepfakes

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Prof. Ming Liu’s group develops a new optical microscopy with nanometer resolution

GPU Programming

Prof. Wong's GPU computing course highlighted by Nvidia

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ECE Researchers Deliver Breakthrough in Magnonic Devices

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Upcoming Events

Colloquium by Jeff Shainline
April 26, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Over Zoom
Title: "Optoelectronic Integration for Advanced Computing and Artificial Intelligence"
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Colloquium by Karin Strauss
April 19, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Over Zoom
Title: "Digital Data Storage in Synthetic DNA"
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Colloquium by Ruhi Sarikaya
April 12, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Over Zoom
Title: "Moving from Supervised Learning to Self-Learning in Conversational AI Systems"
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Distinguished Colloquium by Richard Baraniuk
April 05, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Over Zoom
Title: "Mad Max: Affine Spline Insights into Deep Learning"  
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Final Defenses

Final Defense of Dissertation: Yanwei He

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Final Defense of Dissertation: Wenyu Wang

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Final Defense of Dissertation: Hao Xin

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Final Defense of Dissertation: Luting Yang

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Final Defense of Dissertation: Shaoyi Peng

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Final Defense of Dissertation: Han Zhou

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At a Glance

$10M+
New research grants in FY2019/20
#31
US News 2020 Global University Rankings
200+, 450+
Total graduate and undergraduate students
14, 13
Fellows of IEEE, NAI and other organizations; NSF CAREER and Young Investigator Awards