News Archive - Jacobs School of Engineering

UC San Diego Roboticists Shine at Human Robot Interaction 2024 Conference

UC San Diego robotics research-- from supporting patient home care and stroke rehabilitation to facilitating mission critical teamwork among first responders-- was on display during the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

UC San Diego Engineers Inducted Into 2024 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows

Engineering professors Ludmil Alexandrov and Sheng Xu were inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), one of the highest distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers.

UC San Diego Professor Awarded Signal Processing Society’s Highest Honor

Bhaskar Rao, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an affiliate of the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute, has received the prestigious Norbert Wiener Society Award.

Engineering Alumna Becomes Newest NASA Astronaut

Deniz Burnham, who earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, became one of NASA’s newest astronauts on March 5.

New Imaging Tool Advances Study of Lipid Biology

From flies to humans, there are many types lipids operating at once. Now, a team led by UC San Diego bioengineers presents what they believe is the first method for distinguishing multiple lipid subtypes in cells and tissue samples by using nondestructive label-free optical imaging methods.

AI Fire-Detection Tool Awarded for “Innovations in Networking” by CENIC

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) named the AI fire -detection tool created by UC San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia program, CAL FIRE, and industry partner DigitalPath the winner of the 2024 Innovations in Networking Award for Innovation in Public Safety.

How Do Neural Networks Learn? A Mathematical Formula Explains How They Detect Relevant Patterns

Neural networks remain a black box whose inner workings engineers and scientists struggle to understand. Now, a team led by data and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego has given neural networks the equivalent of an X-ray to uncover how they actually learn.

This Injectable Hydrogel Mitigates Damage to the Right Ventricle of the Heart

An injectable hydrogel can mitigate damage to the right ventricle of the heart with chronic pressure overload, according to a new study published March 6 in Journals of the American College of Cardiology: Basic to Translational Science.

Healable Cathode Could Unlock Potential of Solid-state Lithium-sulfur Batteries

UC San Diego engineers developed a cathode material for lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries that is healable and highly conductive, overcoming longstanding challenges of traditional sulfur cathodes. The advance holds promise for bringing more energy dense and low-cost Li-S batteries closer to market.

Working Towards Toxic-Free AI

ToxicChat is a new benchmark developed by University of California San Diego computer scientists that performs better than models trained on previous toxicity benchmarks.