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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What does it take to build the world's most precise clocks? ⚛️⏱️ UCSB ECE Prof. Daniel Blumenthal is part of NSF's $290M Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes renewal, putting lasers on chips 🔬 📖 engineering.ucsb.edu/news/775 #UCSBECE #Quantum @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

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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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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

Huge congrats to the team. Nima is now an Associate Professor at Texas A&M, and Steve Bako is at Aurora Innovation. Proud to see our research community shaping the future of graphics, 10+ years on!🎓🖥️

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It was the first ML approach to Monte Carlo denoising and the ideas still power nearly every modern denoiser today. This is what the SIGGRAPH 2026 Test-of-Time Award honors: research whose impact only grows with age. 🕰️

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Before their paper, realistic Monte Carlo rendering meant noisy images unless you waited for more samples.⌛️Sen, Kalantari, Steve Bako had a better idea: train a neural network to filter the noise using extra info renderers already produce (albedo, normals, depth).🧠✨

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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

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

His advice to the next generation of scientists: "Taking a risk is most important."🚀Proud to have him as part of the UCSB ECE family.

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The target: a 1-gigawatt pilot fusion plant near Santa Barbara by 2032. Which would be enough to power 750,000–1,000,000 homes. When CNN asked him if this could be his greatest gift to the world yet, Nakamura simply said: "yeah, yeah" No hesitation. 😄

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Now, at 72, he's chasing something even bigger: laser-driven nuclear fusion. His company, Blue Laser Fusion, uses tech derived from his LED work to drive fusion reactions. No uranium, minimal radioactive waste.⚛️

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In 2014, Nakamura won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue LEDs; the breakthrough that made phones, screens, traffic lights, and energy-efficient lighting possible. Some call it as important as Edison's light bulb.💡

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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

At UCSB, Fatih is co-advised by ECE Professor @ninamiolane.bsky.social and KITP Professor Boris Shraiman. We're proud to have him in the #ECE community. Congratulations, Fatih! 👏 #AppliedMathematics #Neuroscience #NeuroAI #UCSB #ECE #SIAM

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

His work delivers algorithms that pull clean signals out of terabytes of messy brain-imaging data, along with mathematical frameworks that explain how stable thoughts and behaviors emerge from the seemingly chaotic activity of millions of neurons. 🧠

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Awarded every two years to *one* outstanding early-career researcher *worldwide*, the DiPrima Prize recognizes Fatih's research building a bridge between mathematics and neuroscience.🌉

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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

🎉Celebrate with him today, Friday, June 5 at 4:30 PM in ESB Room 2003

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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

This award, supported by ICMBE2026, recognizes exceptional contributions to molecular beam epitaxy by researchers under 40. Prof. Ahmadi is a deserving honoree and we couldn't be prouder. 💛💙 #UCSB #MBE #WideBandgap #PowerElectronics #QuantumDevices #MaterialsScience

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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

"The award reflects the wonderful mentors, colleagues, researchers, and engineers I've worked with throughout my career." – Dr. Klamkin Dr. Klamkin will be honored at the CSW Conference on May 25 in Kumamoto, Japan. We're so proud! 🎉 #UCSB #ECE #Photonics #Semiconductors #IPRM

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The award recognizes his pioneering contributions to InP and GaAs photonic and electronic materials and their heterogeneous integration on mismatched substrates.🔬

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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

This paper was published last week in Optica, and spin-out company Pacific Optica is now bringing this tech to labs worldwide.🌎 @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"…we want to see hundreds of neurons, thousands of neurons, with the ultimate goal of being able to look at how individual neurons work together across the entire brain." – Postdoc Che-Hang Yu

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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

Selected from nearly 14,000 applicants, the GRFP provides $159,000 in support over five years. A well-earned honor!👏 We can't wait to see where your PhD journey takes you!🎓

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Roland investigates kagome superconductors for quantum sensing applications, including RF detection in quantum computers.⚛️🔬 "Receiving the NSF GRFP is both exciting and deeply validating…it affirms that I have the potential to grow into an independent researcher" – Roland Yin

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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

His work on high-speed integrated circuits & III-V CMOS architectures is pushing the limits of next-gen wireless, photonics, and satellite communications.🛰️ He also co-founded PseudolithIC to bring these innovations to market, turning UCSB research into real-world impact.💡

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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 inaugural METL class starts Fall 2027. Applications open in September. Learn more 👇 🚀 engineering.ucsb.edu/news/METL_La... 🔗 metl.engineering.ucsb.edu

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Tailored for early- to mid-career tech professionals, METL builds a foundation in leadership and technology management alongside deep technical expertise in 1 of 4 tracks: ⚙️ AI & ML for Science & Technology ⚛️ Quantum Information 🔬 Semiconductor Technology 📈 Technology Management

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