Team of UC San Diego Entrepreneurs Pushes Biomedicine Forward with Virtual Reality
March 27, 2023
If you were looking for a poster child for the strength of UC San Diego’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, the company Nanome would be a strong contender. Founded by Steven McCloskey ’15, Keita Funakawa ’16, Edgardo Leija ’14 and Samuel Hessenauer ’16 in 2016, Nanome offers software that brings molecular interactions to vivid, three-dimensional life in virtual, augmented and mixed reality. The interface has proven successful in accelerating drug discovery and has attracted clients that include over half of the world’s top 20 pharmaceutical firms. Nanome’s educational software has been downloaded by more than 250 universities. Full Story
Faster Slo-Mo?
March 27, 2023
A new technique developed by UC San Diego computer scientists could have a far-reaching impact on the future of slow-motion video. In an effort to smooth out slow-motion video, they broke new ground in a technique for video processing known as video frame interpolation – a way of digitally “sandwiching” additional animation frames between existing ones while meanwhile evening out any blur to achieve a fluid effect. The new video frame interpolation framework is called FLAVR, or Flow-Agnostic Video Representations for Fast Frame Interpolation. The team is led by computer science professor Manmohan Chandraker. Full Story
This is What Happens When Your Phone is Spying on You
March 17, 2023
Smartphone spyware apps that allow people to spy on each other are not only hard to notice and detect, they also will easily leak the sensitive personal information they collect, says a team of computer scientists from New York and San Diego. Full Story
In Memoriam: Professor Robert E. Skelton
March 17, 2023
Robert (Bob) Eugene Skelton, UC San Diego Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, passed away Feb. 15, 2023, in Fairhope, Ala., surrounded by his loving family. Skelton, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, is now broadly recognized as the principal pioneer in the field of tensegrity. The breadth and depth of his impact and his contributions are extensive, ranging from art, to architecture, to biology, physics and medicine, as well as to the building of bridges, large telescopes, space structures, and efficient-wave energy conversion systems in the ocean. Full Story
SPEC Battery Boot Camp 2023
March 9, 2023
Applicaitons are open to participate in the summer 2023 Battery Boot Camp run by the Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC) at UC San Diego. The summer camp will introduce the fundamental design principles and operation mechanisms of lithium-ion batteries, as well as techniques to fabricate them and to evaluate their performance. The application deadline is April 8, 2023. Full Story
Meet the Inaugural Cohort of ServiceNow Scholars
March 2, 2023
Nine undergraduate computer science and engineering students at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego have been selected as inaugural recipients of the ServiceNow scholarship. ServiceNow Scholars are computer science students with outstanding academic merit, including students who have made or show potential to contribute to diversity, equity and inclusion; first generation; and low-income students. Full Story