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SLAB lab: Optical Tech Boosts Laser Scanners’ Reach

The researchers are now able to further increase the amplitude of the scan angle multiplier by making additional changes inside their invention. They have started a company, called Pacific Optica, to ...
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Tech Titans – Santa Barbara & UCSB

The South Coast’s emergence has come largely from cutting-edge companies clustering around the latest technologies, from computing and lasers to infrared radiation and space engineering. Many were ...
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Chao, DenBaars & Schuller: Hair-width LEDs...

LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to powering next-generation displays. New research co-authored by UC Santa ...
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DenBaars – Optica N. Holonyak, Jr. Award

ECE Distinguished Professor, Steven DenBaars is honored by Optica for pioneering contributions to high-efficiency GaN LEDs and laser diodes From the Optica News Release“Optica Names Steven DenBaars ...
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Erez Berg

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering • UC Santa Barbara 2026 © Regents of the University of California ...
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Manjunath – Appointed Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair

ECE Prof. B.S. Manjunath, is honored as the first Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair — one four endowed chairs in the department From the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering News (RMCOE) article ...
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Yulun Wang, PhD EE '88: SoCalBio Honor

The achievement award is selected by SoCalBio Innovation Catalysts Program members. The Southern California Biomedical Council is a nonprofit, member supported trade association that supports and ...
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Mar 19 (Tue) @ 5:30pm: "Kernel-Centric Optimizations for Deep Neural Networks on GPGPUs,” Zhaodong Chen, ECE PhD Defense

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success across various domains, ranging from computer vision to healthcare. General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) is one of the major driving forces ...
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Mar 7 (Thur) @ 10:00 am: “Toward End-to-end Reliable Robot Learning for Autonomy and Interaction,” Glen Chou, Postdoc Assoc, MIT

Robots must behave safely and reliably if we are to confidently deploy them in the real world around humans. To complete tasks, robots must manage a complex, interconnected autonomy stack of ...
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Mar 6 (Wed) @ 4:00pm: “Silicon Photonics for LiDAR, Augmented Reality, Biophotonics, Quantum Engineering, and Beyond,” Jelena Notaros, EECS, MIT

Jelena Notaros is the Robert J. Shillman Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. and ...
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Dec 1 (Mon) @ 1:00pm: "Adaptive Methods for Prediction and Frame Reconstruction in Video Coding," Zeyu Deng, ECE PhD Defense

Efficient video compression relies heavily on accurate block prediction and effective frame reconstruction, both of which depend on statistical models that capture the characteristics of the encoded ...