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Jeong – Peer review and the AI era

ECE Ass't. Prof. Haewon Jeong interviewed about AI-assisted papers surging and straining volunteer peer review ...
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Nanofab – Cleanroom Bootcamp

ECE’s Demis D. John, Nanofab Group Manager leads the UCSB’s Cleanroom Bootcamp that gives students, educators, and professionals hands-on training and industry-recognized credential for growing ...
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ECE Seminar Series — May 1 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Digital Twins for Inspection of Direct Ink Write Additive Manufacturing," Brian Giera, Director, Data Science Institute, LLNL

Inspection presents the largest bottleneck in the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) manufacturing enterprise and is as much as 4x more costly than fabrication itself. On top of this, ...
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May 30 (Thu) @ 2:00pm: "High Power Nitrogen-polar GaN/InAlN HEMT with Record Power Density of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz," Shigeki Yoshida, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

Shigeki Yoshida is presenting record Ka-band power density from N-polar GaN HEMTs of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz, utilizing N-polar GaN/InAlN HEMTs. Shigeki Yoshida received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in ...
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Mar 14 (Tue) @ 2:30pm: "Incorporating Human Visual Properties into Neural Network Models," Aditya Jonnalagadda, ECE PhD Defense

Many animals and humans process the visual field with varying spatial resolution (foveated vision) and use peripheral processing to make intelligent eye movements and point the fovea to acquire ...
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Feb 14 (Mon) @ 2:00pm "Molecular Communications: Alice and Bob “talk” inside our cells," Minji Kim, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine

Traditional communications theorists have developed ways to transmit information efficiently and reliably through data compression and error correction methods, which ...
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Mar 13 (Thu) @ 7:30pm: "Design of ASIC Ising Machines for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems," Jooyoung Bae, ECE PhD Defense

Combinatorial Optimization Problems (COPs) are prevalent in our daily lives, from route searching to optimal placement or optimization of scheduling. Solving these problems effectively can lead to ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Jun 6 (Fri) @ 2:00 pm: “Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits, John E. Bowers, Dir. of the Inst. for Energy Efficiency and Prof. ECE and Materials, UCSB

Tremendous progress is being made at silicon photonic foundries around the world to improve the performance, yield and capability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and that is opening up new ...
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Aug 6 (Tue) @ 11:00am: ”Millimeter Wave Power Amplifiers: Embedding Techniques and Rapid Optimization,” Everett O'Malley, ECE PhD Defense

Communication systems in millimeter-wave bands promise unprecedented access to high data rates in wireless links. Power amplifiers account for a large fraction of transmitter power dissipation.
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ECE Seminar Series – March 22 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: “Latest Progress and Challenges in 300 mm Monolithic Silicon Photonics Manufacturing,” Takako Hirokawa, Principal Device ...

In this talk, I will discuss the latest developments in the GlobalFoundries Fotonix TM program, including enhancements in device performance, packaging, PDK compact models, and in-house test ...
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Aug 9 (Mon) @ 2pm: "Machine Learning Techniques for Rare Failure Detection in Analog and Mixed-Signal Verification and Test," Hanbin Hu, ECE PhD Defense

Due to inherent complex behaviors and stringent requirements in analog and mixed-signal (AMS) systems, verification and testing become key bottlenecks in the product development cycle. Rare failure ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Mar 6 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Six Mini Talks" by ECE PhD Students

This seminar features short research talks covering a range of topics across AI, photonics, communications, control, and computing systems. Learn about ongoing work in the department and connect with ...