Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

3 ECEs among E+TM Fellows

The E+TM program provides these skills efficiently by streamlining both the timeline and the spring fellows program application process, which requires a brief personal statement, a resume, and a UCSB ...
Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

3 CEs On Solar-Powered Table Team

The 430-watt outdoor furniture piece features integrated solar panels that generate electricity to charge various kinds of electronic devices, such as cell phones or laptop computers.
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Mar 6 (Wed) @ 4:00pm: “Silicon Photonics for LiDAR, Augmented Reality, Biophotonics, Quantum Engineering, and Beyond,” Jelena Notaros, EECS, MIT

Jelena Notaros is the Robert J. Shillman Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. and ...
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Mar 7 (Thur) @ 10:00 am: “Toward End-to-end Reliable Robot Learning for Autonomy and Interaction,” Glen Chou, Postdoc Assoc, MIT

Robots must behave safely and reliably if we are to confidently deploy them in the real world around humans. To complete tasks, robots must manage a complex, interconnected autonomy stack of ...
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May 30 (Thu) @ 2:00pm: "High Power Nitrogen-polar GaN/InAlN HEMT with Record Power Density of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz," Shigeki Yoshida, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

Shigeki Yoshida is presenting record Ka-band power density from N-polar GaN HEMTs of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz, utilizing N-polar GaN/InAlN HEMTs. Shigeki Yoshida received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in ...
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Feb 28 (Wed) @ 9:00am: “Enhancing Materials Microstructure Analysis with Physics-Informed Computer Vision,” Devendra Kumar Jangid, ECE PhD Defense

Collecting 3D microstructural information of materials poses significant challenges, being a process that is time-consuming and expensive. While advancements in serial sectioning instrumentation have ...
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Nov 17 (Tue): "High Performance Semipolar InGaN Distributed Feedback Laser Diodes with Surface Gratings," Haojun Zhang, ECE PhD Defense

The impact of III-Nitride material and solid-state lighting on the world has been far-reaching. The last decade has seen the III-Nitride LEDs and laser didoes (LDs) steadily becoming essential ...
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Jul 19 (Tue) @ 12:00pm: "Improving Gain and Efficiency of N-polar GaN Deep Recess HEMT for mm-Wave Applications," Weiyi Li, ECE PhD Defense

GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have been demonstrated to be a leading technology for RF millimeter-wave application. While GaN technologies utilizing the Ga-polar (0001) ...
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Jan 28 (Tue) @ 10am: "Pushing the Boundaries of Modern Application-Aware Computing Stacks,” Christina Giannoula, U. of Toronto

Modern computing systems encounter significant challenges related to data movement data movement in applications, such as data analytics and machine learning. Within a compute node, the physical ...
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Mar 13 (Wed) @ 9:00am: “Safe Robot Autonomy in Interactive Open-World Environments, Accelerated by Generative AI,” Roya Firoozi, Postdoc Researcher, Stanford

Generative AI offers the potential to empower autonomous robots with the ability (i) to connect abstract concepts to 3D scene geometry and (ii) to enable complex intention prediction and collaboration ...