Jacobs School Electrical and Computer Engineering News: Top Stories

Alexander Vardy Named First Jack Keil Wolf Chair in Electrical Engineering

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 PDT

Electrical engineering Professor Alexander Vardy, a renowned researcher in information and coding theory, has been appointed as the first Jack Keil Wolf Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. The endowed chair was established in memory of Jack Keil Wolf, a longtime professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and a pioneer in information theory and its applications.

UC San Diego Computer Engineering Students Take Lead in Circuit Design Contest

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PDT

A team composed of students from the University of California, San Diego and the University of Michigan won more prize money than any other entry in the 2013 Discrete Gate Sizing Contest at the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD). The gate-sizing contest judged the teams in two categories. The “primary” category looked at circuit-power quality only; the “secondary” category looked at how well each entry did with the tradeoff between circuit-power quality and runtime optimization. (Runtime is the wall clock time from the beginning to the end of the execution of the submitted binary code program.)

Sujit Dey Named Faculty Director of the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDT

Sujit Dey has been named faculty director of the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, which offers pre-seed funding and business advisory services to researchers and students developing innovative technology at universities throughout Southern California.

Alumnus Mike Chi is Developing Better EEG Recording Equipment at Cognionics

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDT

When Mike Chi finished his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UC San Diego in 2011, he co-founded Cognionics. One of his big goals is to put better sensor technologies into the labs of researchers and physicians who study the electrical signals produced by the brain (EEG) and heart (ECG) for a variety of basic research and medical applications such as diagnosing cardiac disorders or conducting high-resolution brain imaging on freely moving subjects.

UC San Diego's Massimo Franceschetti Wins Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 PDT

Massimo Franceschetti, an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. The IEEE Control Systems Society awards the prize annually to recognize a young researcher's cutting-edge, multidisciplinary contributions in both the theory and real-world applications of systems and control.

Future of New Memory Technologies Explored at UC San Diego Workshop

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 PDT

Scientists and engineers from around the world will gather to discuss innovations in non-volatile computer memories that help power today’s electronic mobile devices during a three-day workshop held March 3 to 5 at the University of California, San Diego. The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego is hosting the fourth Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, which will examine how the technology will be used in tomorrow’s mobile electronic devices and how it’s shaping the future of high-performance and cloud computing.

Alumnus' Passion for Design Leads to Award at International Consumer Electronics Show

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 PDT

Last month, one of the products developed by Jacobs School alum Andre Berracasa for MaxLinear was recognized at the 2013 International CES show with a Design and Engineering Award in the embedded technologies category. He attributes his success to his education at UC San Diego.

Pioneer in Physical Design of Integrated Circuits Named ACM Fellow

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 PDT

Andrew B. Kahng, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, San Diego, has been named one of 52 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery for 2012. Kahng, who holds the Endowed Chair in High-Performance Computing at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, was recognized for “contributions to physical design automation and to design for manufacturability of microelectronic systems.” He is a pioneer in the physical design of integrated circuits, as well as in the field known today as integrated-circuit design for manufacturability.

Engineering Graduate Student Wins Collegiate Inventors Competition

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 PDT

For work toward a safer approach to treating cancer, electrical engineering Ph.D. student Inanc Ortac from the University of California, San Diego has won first prize in the graduate student category at the 2012 Collegiate Inventors Competition. Ortac’s winning entry, entitled “Nano-Wiffle-Balls for Cancer Therapy” offers a new approach for delivering cancer drugs just to the areas where the drugs are needed. This kind of targeted drug delivery minimizes collateral damage to non-cancerous cells.

Jacobs School Recruiting for 12 Positions in 2012-13

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 PDT

The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego currently is recruiting for 11open faculty positions in the 2012-13 academic year. The positions fall within three strategic research focus areas identified by the school: energy, sustainability and environment; engineering in medicine; and information technology and applications. Several of the positions are part of a three-year recruitment plan in the area of advanced energy research.