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UC San Diego’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Celebrates Six Decades of Impact
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering celebrated a significant milestone on April 10, 2026, marking six decades of educational excellence, transformative research and technological innovation.
UC San Diego Researchers Shine a Light on Peripheral Artery Disease
UC San Diego researchers find that a simple technology that measures blood volume changes coupled with machine learning can be used to screen for peripheral artery disease with a high degree of accuracy.
UC San Diego Researcher Awarded LANL-UC Fellowship
UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Yuanyuan Shi has been awarded the Michael R. Anastasio LANL-UC Early Career Faculty Fellowship from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Shi will work on developing an AI-driven framework to control and model complex physical systems.
Stick-on Gel Offers New Way to Treat and Monitor Plants
A stick-on gel for plants could offer a simple, safe and targeted way to treat diseases and pests. It can be loaded with substances, such as medicines, and applied directly onto a plant to deliver those materials into its tissues. In tests, the gel was used to clear a plant's bacterial infection...
New Conversational AI Tool Uses Trusted Medical Protocols to Help People Decide When to Seek Care
A new chatbot could reliably help people decide what to do about their symptoms — and do so based on guidance that is both medically sound and easy to understand. Designed to improve self-triage, it could help reduce unnecessary hospital visits and ensure that those who need care seek it soone...
Six New Projects Are Empowering Early-Career Engineering and Computer Science Faculty
Six teams from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been awarded funding to accelerate interdisciplinary research collaborations that include an early-career faculty member. The big idea is to empower early-career faculty to build interdisciplinary research collaborations to the p...
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UC San Diego’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Celebrates Six Decades of Impact
May 14, 2026
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Eng...
UC San Diego Researchers Shine a Light on Peripheral Artery Disease
May 14, 2026
UC San Diego researchers find that a simple technology that measures blood volume changes coupled wi...
UC San Diego Engineers Launch Free Digital Twin for End-to-End Testing of Applications over Wireless
May 13, 2026
Electrical engineers at UC San Diego developed an open-source digital twin of a wireless n...
UC San Diego Researcher Awarded LANL-UC Fellowship
May 7, 2026
UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Yuanyuan Shi has been awarded the Michael...
Students Get an Intro to AI in First AI Major Class at UC San Diego
April 30, 2026
More than 100 undergraduate students enrolled in UC San Diego’s new AI major took their f...
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