News Releases
2017 Year in Review
December 22, 2017
It has been a banner year here at the Jacobs School of Engineering. As we prepare to welco...
Undergraduate engineers, Birch Aquarium collaborate on innovative exhibits
December 19, 2017
Ten UC San Diego undergraduates left an indelible mark on the Birch Aquarium this summer thanks to t...
Driving Robotic Rehab
December 18, 2017
Rehabilitation robotics, although still an emerging field, is getting a shot of adrenaline because o...
Company Based on UC San Diego Technology Gets Infusion of Capital
December 15, 2017
Tortuga Logic, a hardware security company co-founded by computer science professor and Qualcom...
ECE Professor Elected ACM Fellow in Class of 2017
December 14, 2017
A faculty member affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor Al...
New UC San Diego Chapter Sends LGBT+ Delegates to oSTEM Conference
December 14, 2017
For the first time, a delegation of faculty and students from the University of California San Diego...
Three UC San Diego Computer Scientists Elevated to Be ACM Fellows in Class of 2017
December 14, 2017
Three computer scientists from the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San ...
Less than skin deep: humans can feel molecular differences between nearly identical surfaces
December 13, 2017
How sensitive is the human sense of touch? Sensitive enough to feel the difference between surfaces ...
Computer scientists develop a simple tool to tell if websites suffered a data breach
December 12, 2017
Computer scientists have built and successfully tested a tool designed to detect when websites are h...
Updated brain cell map connects various brain diseases to specific cell types
December 11, 2017
Researchers have developed new single-cell sequencing methods that could be used to map the cell ori...
Computer Graphics and Vision Expert Elected ACM Fellow
December 11, 2017
UC San Diego computer science and engineering professor Ravi Ramamoorthi has been elected a Fel...
UC San Diego Researcher Named Semi-Finalist for Women's Safety XPRIZE
December 7, 2017
UC San Diego’s Debashis Sahoo is one of 21 semi-finalists in the $1 million Anu & Nav...