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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Flying became safe because aerodynamics became a science. Hiring more people to watch the planes would not have done it. Control follows understanding, and understanding means scientific laws that predict behavior before it happens. Having access to #Silico is a game-changer for this research!
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s the start of Fall quarter and our graduate students are returning to campus! 🔬💡 See what they have to say about where a PhD at UCSB ECE can take you. 🚀 🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPOK... @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
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The Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Experience at UC Santa Barbara: Where Ideas Connect
YouTube video by The UCSB Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
UCSB ECE Professor @ninamiolane.bsky.social is taking the stage to discuss AI safety and the mathematics behind it!
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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This award reflects Guillermo's dedication and rigor throughout his PhD, as well as the impact of his research. Well-deserved recognition for years of hard work! Thesis supervised by Pere Barlet Ros and Alberto Cabellos Aparicio.🎓
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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is one of the university's highest distinctions for doctoral theses, recognizing outstanding scientific and technical contributions.📓
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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🎉Congratulations to Guillermo Bernárdez Gil! Thrilled to share that our postdoc, Guille, has been awarded the 2026 Extraordinary Doctoral Award by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Congrats, Guille, so proud to have you on our team👏 🔗https://tinyurl.com/43hbr9t3
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🏆Congrats to Prof. Pradeep Sen and former PhD student Nima Kalantari who were just awarded the SIGGRAPH Test-of-Time Award for their 2015 paper that transformed computer graphics rendering! Read more here👇 tinyurl.com/mvh569zx @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s42... @geometric-intel.bsky.social @neurreps.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social
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A unifying framework from neural superposition to sparse interpretable codes - Nature Machine Intelligence
Kindt et al. present a unifying framework for superposition in neural networks. Their three-step approach clarifies how latent features can be identified, disentangled and assessed.
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The concept of superposition has motivated over three decades of work across different communities. It states that neural networks encode features by overlaying multiple concepts ('elephant', 'ball', 'pink') linearly within the same set of neurons. We ask: how can we recover these concepts?
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Our review on superposition in AI & brains is published in @nature.com #Machine #Intelligence 🌐 Neural networks encode concepts in superposition. We can recover them in 3 steps: identifiability, compressed sensing, interpretability. W/ @david-klindt.bsky.social O'Neil Reizinger & Maurer 🌟
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🔵⚡Big feature in @cnn.com this week on our very own Prof. Shuji Nakamura (Materials & ECE). The man who lit up the world with blue LEDs, and now wants to power it too. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/msm4h9bf @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🎉 Congratulations to @fatihdinc.bsky.social, postdoc in UC Santa Barbara #ECE and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, on winning the Richard C. DiPrima Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). 🏆 🔗 Read the full story: lnkd.in/gd27SUAA
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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 27/05/2026
Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? @ninamiolane.bsky.social proposes answers in her Long Now Talk with @berggruen.org's Claire Isabel Webb.
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🧠 Can geometry give us a theory of neural computation? Claire Isabel Webb and I discussed how #geometry, the hidden shapes & structure inside high-dimensional neural data, can be a powerful tool to understand how the brain computes. @longnow.org @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🎓After 38 years, Professor Forrest Brewer is retiring from UCSB ECE. His work in asynchronous logic, VLSI design, and sigma-delta computation has left a deep mark on this department and on the students he mentored along the way. We are grateful for every one of those 38 years.🙏
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🏆Congratulations to Prof. Elaheh Ahmadi, recipient of the 2026 Young Investigator MBE Award from the International MBE Advisory Committee! Her research on novel ultra wide bandgap devices is pushing the boundaries of high power, high frequency, and quantum applications.🔬⚡
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Daniel Holmberg @dholmberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The ocean is inherently chaotic, yet existing data-driven ocean models produce deterministic forecasts. In our new preprint, we introduce Njord, a probabilistic graph neural network for ensemble ocean forecasting. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2605.15470 A couple highlights below 🧵
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social is ranked #3 academic institution in the world for automation and control by the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 🏆 At the heart of this success is the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation! Discover 👉 www.ccdc.ucsb.edu
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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
FTP hasn't changed much since the 1990s. But the client software has gotten absurdly bloated. Even in the early 2000s a fully functional GUI-based FTP client was ~ 1 MB. Fit on a single 3.5" disk. I just downloaded a client that was 173 MB. For an FTP client. That's all it does.
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🏆 Congratulations to ECE Professor and Aeluma CEO Dr. Jonathan Klamkin on receiving the prestigious IPRM Award from Compound Semiconductor Week! Read more here👇 tinyurl.com/apx9phhc @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🏥Congratulations to ECE Prof. Ramtin Pedarsani's team on receiving a UC Noyce Initiative award to develop robust vision-language models for clinical applications — part of a $3.4M UC-wide research push for computational health and cybersecurity.🤖 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mm9jb8x
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🔬How do you study thousands of neurons at once? You build better tools. ECE Prof. Spencer Smith's SLAB Lab designed a scan angle multiplier that achieves the laser scanning trifecta: high speed, high resolution, and a larger area.🧠⚡ 📜https://tinyurl.com/36j7pa3d
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🎉Congrats to ECE undergraduate Roland Yin on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship — one of the most prestigious honors in STEM!🏆 @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social 🔗https://tinyurl.com/63h5hvfz
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🎉 Congratulations to ECE Professor James Buckwalter on being inducted as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors!🏆 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social 🔗 tinyurl.com/ubk93ahf
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#UCSB's first fully online master's degree is here 💻 Coming to The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering in fall 2027, the new Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership program offers an interdisciplinary curriculum designed for working professionals. Full story: ow.ly/Bkls50YZ1B4
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College of Engineering launches UCSB’s first fully online master’s degree program
The fully online format is structured so that students can continue to work while earning a UCSB engineering degree, regardless of geographic location or time zone.
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering is launching METL — the Master of Engineering & Technology Leadership — the first fully online master's degree at UC Santa Barbara, built for working tech professionals around the world 🎓 @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Big news from our department! 🚀 Prof. Daniel Blumenthal and his group, in collaboration with @UMassAmherst, have demonstrated a chip-scale stabilized laser for trapped-ion quantum systems. 🔗https://bit.ly/4vgq7Wt @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social has officially secured the #1 spot in the nation for U.S. utility patents!🚀🥼 With 571 patents granted in 2025, UC generates nearly twice as many inventions as the second-place university. Full story: ow.ly/j8VU50Yx5Hg #winning #up
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UC is No. 1 in patents in new U.S. ranking
UC is No. 1 in a National Academy of Inventors ranking of U.S. schools granted the most U.S. utility patents released today, March 19. Patents are a key driver of economic success and quality of life.
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The future of quantum is being built right here in the OCAQπ Lab!⚛️✨ Last Friday, March 13, @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social hosted "Quantum California" – bringing together state leaders and industry icons to explore the groundbreaking research happening in our department ⚡️🥼
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It’s March, and high school seniors are facing a huge choice: Where to call home for the next 4 years? 🎓 At @ucsbengineering.bsky.social, we offer elite #engineering research in a coastal environment designed to keep you inspired. 🌴🌊 #collegedecisions #ECE #UCSB
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Congratulations to ECE & Materials Distinguished Professor Steven DenBaars for receiving the 2026 @optica.org Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award! 🏆💡 Read more about this prestigious honor: bit.ly/4lj15RH #UCSB #Engineering #Optica #LED #Sustainability #GaN
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Silicon, the material behind computer chips, plays to the strengths of the trillion-dollar semiconductor industry. Researchers at #UCSB have identified a new qubit in silicon, called the CN center, which can bridge the gap between quantum science & scalable technology: ow.ly/LGZ450Yn4np
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A robust new telecom qubit in silicon
Researchers in Chris Van de Walle’s group discover a more durable defect for quantum applications
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I’m pleased to share that I've been selected as a Fellow of the 2026 Thinking About Thinking Program! I’m grateful to join a global, research-led ecosystem engaging thoughtfully with how AI is developed, governed, and understood. @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Excellent work by Roark Chao and the UCSB team on their recent publication in Optica Express⚡️. These new microLED designs represent a major step forward for the future of data centers and display technology. Read more below👇 bit.ly/4sejwcL
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Hair-width LEDs could replace lasers — and a UCSB doctoral student is helping make it happen
Study demonstrates a new micro–light-emitting diode (microLED) design that improves both efficiency and beam directionality.
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🏆UCSB ranked #1 public university in the US for scientific impact, and 3rd in universities overall!🎓 Congratulations to all of our researchers who are leading the global conversation.🌐🧵 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Exciting news from OCAQpi! Researchers @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social have advanced photonics with PZT-integrated SiN microcomb resonators. 🌟 Dive into this innovation: tinyurl.com/258gp9x4
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ThatAnxiousArtist @whitneyyoh.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
So it’s real but it’s artificial therefore it’s fake so it’s a Real Fake Smart Seminar Series?
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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Love to see it from @fatihdinc.bsky.social 😼🐼 Looking forward to seeing future talks from @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social
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ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We’re excited to kick off this year’s REAL AI Seminar Series! 🤖✨ Thrilled to start with @fatihdinc.bsky.social , thanks for joining us to launch the series. Dr. Fatih Dinc gave a wonderful talk on biological versus artificial neural networks 🤯 @ucsbece.bsky.social @geometric-intel.bsky.social
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Exciting News! 🎓✨ Our new online professional master’s program—the Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL)—is launching in Fall 2026: We Are Hiring its Executive Director! Join us in building the future of engineering @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social: lnkd.in/gbe5fhHU
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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Winter Quarter is here @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social but the classroom has changed. How do we teach and learn when AI tools think & write faster? GI Lab's PhD @abbybertics.bsky.social explores innovation vs academic integrity in a podcast #TheEconomist also featuring PI @ninamiolane.bsky.social 🎙️👇
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Join us Jan 23 for the inaugural CRML Agentic AI Summit at @ucsb.bsky.social. Researchers, industry, and students exploring how agentic AI drives discovery and real-world impact. Free to attend, limited space: ml.ucsb.edu/events/summi... #AgenticAI #ResponsibleAI #AIResearch
Flyer for the UCSB CRML Agentic AI Summit 2026. Friday, January 23, 2026. 8:00 AM in Henley Hall 1010.

Keynote speakers: Sujith Ravi (VP GenAi, Oracle), Jiantao Jiao (Director AI, Nvidia), Murphy Niu (UCSB), Diyi Yang (Stanford), Daniel Martin (UCSB).

Industry talks: Ang Li (CEO, Simular), Zackary Glazewski (Founding AI Engineer, ChipAgents), Eser Kandogan (Principal Research Engineer, Megagon Labs)

AI faculty highlights: Eric Wang, Yuheng Bu, Michael Beyeler, James Preiss, Miguel Eckstein
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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It's not Snell's law. It's Snel's law. And actually, it's really Sahl's law. labrigger.com/blog/2026/01...
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It is Snel’s law, not Snell’s law, and actually really Sahl’s law – Labrigger
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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
What to do? The simplest thing people can do is to stand on principle. Don’t compromise values thinking that will buy comfort. Those that hoped for that lost both. It’s actually more comfortable to stand on principle. More people want that. You’ve got good company.
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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Fortunately, there's a resource to improve benchmarking of multiphoton systems. So things can get better. Here's the paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... And here's the free PMC version PDF (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) (3/3)
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Standardized measurements for monitoring and comparing multiphoton microscope systems - Nature Protocols
A set of procedures is described here for standardizing the evaluation of multiphoton microscope performance, covering laser power, pulse width optimizations, field of view, resolution and photomultip...
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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The key issue is that the authors who try to make comparisons don't have access to all of the systems and can't make apples-to-apples comparisons. But they present an illusion of that, using anecdotes in place of rigorous comparisons. Which makes the comparisons wrong. (2/3)
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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Comparing multiphoton (2p/3p) imaging systems is often done poorly. labrigger.com/blog/2026/01... E.g., PSFs can be measured differently by different labs, staining quality is by far the biggest determinate on how multiphoton images will look at depth, and so forth. (1/3)
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Researchers at UCSB have found an alarming uptick in diseases in the Amazon basin, which could be driven by the changes in land. "These emerging infectious diseases are indicators of broader environmental issues." Full story: ow.ly/XtJF50Y0oUe
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Old diseases return as settlement pushes into the Amazon rainforest
The growing border between forested and urban areas is causing an alarming uptick human cases of yellow fever, a disease that had become rare in South America.
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
#UCSB researchers found that exposure to hot, humid conditions during pregnancy is more dangerous than high temperatures alone 🌡️ This heat stress can even induce premature labor. Full story: ow.ly/ZHWq50XSff1
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Hot, humid conditions during pregnancy undermine child health much more than heat alone
Humidity worsens the impacts of heat exposure during pregnancy, quadrupling its effect on child health. By focusing on temperature only, we may be underestimating the true impacts of extreme weather.
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