July 13, 2017
July 13, 2017 —
Five UC San Diego professors will receive $4MN as part of an international collaboration led by Brown University to develop grain-sized sensors, actuators and networking to be inserted into the cerebral cortex for brain research or repair. DARPA is funding the overall $19MN project announced this week.
July 12, 2017
July 12, 2017 —
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a smart glove that wirelessly translates the American Sign Language alphabet into text and controls a virtual hand to mimic sign language gestures. The device, which engineers call “The Language of Glove,” was built for less than $100 using stretchable and printable electronics that are inexpensive, commercially available and easy to assemble.
July 6, 2017
July 6, 2017 —
UC San Diego Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professor Olivia Graeve has been named one of the “100 mujeres más poderosas de México” – one of the 100 most powerful women in Mexico, according to a Forbes 2017 ranking.
July 6, 2017
July 6, 2017 —
Computer science graduate students Ariana Mirian and Stephanie Chen will attend the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Orlando, FL, thanks to travel grants awarded by UC San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS).
June 30, 2017
June 30, 2017 —
Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a temperature sensor that runs on only 113 picowatts of power — 628 times lower power than the state of the art and about 10 billion times smaller than a watt. This “near-zero-power” temperature sensor could extend the battery life of wearable or implantable devices that monitor body temperature, smart home monitoring systems, Internet of Things devices and environmental monitoring systems.
June 29, 2017
June 29, 2017 —
Cocoon Cam, a computer-vision-based baby monitor company co-founded by University of California San Diego computer science alumnus Pavan Kumar (M.S. Computer Science 2015), recently announced that it closed a $4 million Series A funding round. Cocoon Cam is a baby monitor that relies on computer vision technologies to track breathing and other vital signs. It offers instant alerts and sleep analytics that can be accessed by parents anytime through a smartphone app.
June 29, 2017
June 29, 2017 —
Computer science graduate student Tianyin Xu will complete his Ph.D. later this summer, but he received five faculty job offers from top-notch schools, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he will become a tenure-track assistant professor next January.
June 27, 2017
June 27, 2017 —
The non-profit organization Tech San Diego launched a University Talent Initiative, initially as a partnership with UC San Diego, to improve the local talent pipeline and to make San Diego companies more competitive with Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York and Austin in attracting UC San Diego graduates and interns.
June 22, 2017
June 22, 2017 —
5G capabilities will make it possible to harness sensor technologies, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and machine learning for unprecedented applications -- applications discussed at length during the conference.
June 19, 2017
June 19, 2017 —
Can the continental United States make a rapid, reliable and low-cost transition to an energy system that relies almost exclusively on wind, solar and hydroelectric power? While there is growing excitement for this vision, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by 21 of the nation’s leading energy experts, including David G. Victor and George R. Tynan from the University of California San Diego, describes a more complicated reality.
