At UCSB, Fatih is co-advised by ECE Professor @ninamiolane.bsky.social and KITP Professor Boris Shraiman. We're proud to have him in the #ECE community. Congratulations, Fatih! 👏 #AppliedMathematics #Neuroscience #NeuroAI #UCSB #ECE #SIAM

His work delivers algorithms that pull clean signals out of terabytes of messy brain-imaging data, along with mathematical frameworks that explain how stable thoughts and behaviors emerge from the seemingly chaotic activity of millions of neurons. 🧠

Awarded every two years to *one* outstanding early-career researcher *worldwide*, the DiPrima Prize recognizes Fatih's research building a bridge between mathematics and neuroscience.🌉

🎉 Congratulations to @fatihdinc.bsky.social, postdoc in UC Santa Barbara #ECE and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, on winning the Richard C. DiPrima Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). 🏆 🔗 Read the full story: lnkd.in/gd27SUAA

Can geometry help explain how neuronal signals create consciousness?🤔🌐 Loved diving into this question w/ the brilliant Claire Webb from the @berggruen.org thanks to the @longnow.org foundation ! Watch our conversation here ⬇️ @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social

Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/IUlBwKinaTk

Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? @ninamiolane.bsky.social proposes answers in her Long Now Talk with @berggruen.org's Claire Isabel Webb.

What an incredible season of Long Now Talks! We heard from @ninamiolane.bsky.social on the geometry of consciousness, @ericries.bsky.social on incorruptibility, @bayoakomolafe.bsky.social on new time paradigms, @indyjohar.bsky.social on planetary consciousness + more

🧠 Can geometry give us a theory of neural computation? Claire Isabel Webb and I discussed how #geometry, the hidden shapes & structure inside high-dimensional neural data, can be a powerful tool to understand how the brain computes. @longnow.org @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social

This award, supported by ICMBE2026, recognizes exceptional contributions to molecular beam epitaxy by researchers under 40. Prof. Ahmadi is a deserving honoree and we couldn't be prouder. 💛💙 #UCSB #MBE #WideBandgap #PowerElectronics #QuantumDevices #MaterialsScience

🏆Congratulations to Prof. Elaheh Ahmadi, recipient of the 2026 Young Investigator MBE Award from the International MBE Advisory Committee! Her research on novel ultra wide bandgap devices is pushing the boundaries of high power, high frequency, and quantum applications.🔬⚡

• Lastly, animation of an extra long sea ice concentration rollout over the spring of 2024 for the Baltic Sea, with reanalysis atmospheric forcing. The regional model remains surprisingly stable while only trained with 2 autoregressive steps.

• Sea ice is predicted alongside other physical state variables. Smooth invertible activation functions together with a binary density channel keep ice variables within realistic bounds.

• K-means cluster meshes. Latitude weighted spherical K-means produces a mesh that conforms better to ocean grids by construction compared to previously used quadrilateral or icosahedral meshes.

• Latent-variable graph neural network. A per-step Gaussian latent on the coarsest mesh level injects stochasticity into a hierarchical encode-process-decode backbone. The model only requires one forward pass per ensemble member.

• Njord is trained globally at 0.25° and on the Baltic Sea at 2km resolution. In the regional setting Njord conditions on boundary data from an independent global ocean model, where previous emulators either lack boundary forcing or depend on the very system they aim to replace.

The ocean is inherently chaotic, yet existing data-driven ocean models produce deterministic forecasts. In our new preprint, we introduce Njord, a probabilistic graph neural network for ensemble ocean forecasting. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2605.15470 A couple highlights below 🧵

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🏥Congratulations to ECE Prof. Ramtin Pedarsani's team on receiving a UC Noyce Initiative award to develop robust vision-language models for clinical applications — part of a $3.4M UC-wide research push for computational health and cybersecurity.🤖 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mm9jb8x

This paper was published last week in Optica, and spin-out company Pacific Optica is now bringing this tech to labs worldwide.🌎 @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

"…we want to see hundreds of neurons, thousands of neurons, with the ultimate goal of being able to look at how individual neurons work together across the entire brain." – Postdoc Che-Hang Yu

🔬How do you study thousands of neurons at once? You build better tools. ECE Prof. Spencer Smith's SLAB Lab designed a scan angle multiplier that achieves the laser scanning trifecta: high speed, high resolution, and a larger area.🧠⚡ 📜https://tinyurl.com/36j7pa3d

Selected from nearly 14,000 applicants, the GRFP provides $159,000 in support over five years. A well-earned honor!👏 We can't wait to see where your PhD journey takes you!🎓

Roland investigates kagome superconductors for quantum sensing applications, including RF detection in quantum computers.⚛️🔬 "Receiving the NSF GRFP is both exciting and deeply validating…it affirms that I have the potential to grow into an independent researcher" – Roland Yin

🎉Congrats to ECE undergraduate Roland Yin on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship — one of the most prestigious honors in STEM!🏆 @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social 🔗https://tinyurl.com/63h5hvfz

His work on high-speed integrated circuits & III-V CMOS architectures is pushing the limits of next-gen wireless, photonics, and satellite communications.🛰️ He also co-founded PseudolithIC to bring these innovations to market, turning UCSB research into real-world impact.💡

🎉 Congratulations to ECE Professor James Buckwalter on being inducted as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors!🏆 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social 🔗 tinyurl.com/ubk93ahf

It’s March, and high school seniors are facing a huge choice: Where to call home for the next 4 years? 🎓 At @ucsbengineering.bsky.social, we offer elite #engineering research in a coastal environment designed to keep you inspired. 🌴🌊 #collegedecisions #ECE #UCSB

Proud of our faculty, students, and the culture of excellence they've built. Go Gauchos! 💙💛 #UCSB

As Dean Umesh Mishra puts it: "These results affirm what we see every day at UC Santa Barbara: research that is not only prolific and impactful, but profoundly influential" 🗣️ Read more below👇🔗 bit.ly/4kAsRZF

Across Engineering and Physical Sciences, our numbers are staggering: Top 1%: #1 U.S. Public (#7 Worldwide)🥇 Top 10%: #1 U.S. Public (#11 Worldwide)🥇 Top 50%: #1 U.S. Public (#14 Worldwide)🥇 Consistency is our baseline. 🌊🔬

The CWTS Leiden Rankings measure how often research is cited by other scientists. In the "Top 1%" category (the most elite tier), UCSB ranks #3 in the U.S. overall, trailing only MIT and Harvard.📈✨

🏆UCSB ranked #1 public university in the US for scientific impact, and 3rd in universities overall!🎓 Congratulations to all of our researchers who are leading the global conversation.🌐🧵 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

We’re excited to kick off this year’s REAL AI Seminar Series! 🤖✨ Thrilled to start with @fatihdinc.bsky.social , thanks for joining us to launch the series. Dr. Fatih Dinc gave a wonderful talk on biological versus artificial neural networks 🤯 @ucsbece.bsky.social @geometric-intel.bsky.social

If you are passionate about shaping the next generation of global tech leaders and want to run a program at the intersection of world-class research and professional excellence, we want to hear from you!

We are looking for a visionary leader to serve as the inaugural Executive Director for this first-of-its-kind program @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. lnkd.in/gbe5fhHU

Designed for early/mid career tech professionals, METL bridges the gap btw deep technical expertise & strategic business leadership. Fall 2026: Specialized tracks in Semiconductor Technology & Technology Management. Fall 2027: Quantum Information & AI for Science and Technology.

Exciting News! 🎓✨ Our new online professional master’s program—the Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL)—is launching in Fall 2026: We Are Hiring its Executive Director! Join us in building the future of engineering @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social: lnkd.in/gbe5fhHU

Winter Quarter is here @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social but the classroom has changed. How do we teach and learn when AI tools think & write faster? GI Lab's PhD @abbybertics.bsky.social explores innovation vs academic integrity in a podcast #TheEconomist also featuring PI @ninamiolane.bsky.social 🎙️👇

The way forward is to invest in true open-source software and infrastructure. Read our full oped w/ Annie K. Lamar @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social #publicvoices of TheOpEdProject: insidehighered.com/opinion/view... @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social

🙌 To be sure, *some* companies are truly dedicated to open-source. By generously sharing their resources, they have dramatically advanced science. It's time universities do the same.

👩‍🔬 Science advances slowly, across decades. Commercial tools, by contrast, advance quickly through mergers, pivots and quarterly earnings reports. Tethering our infrastructure to private companies is like writing knowledge in disappearing ink.

🦾 If we continue to rent the foundations of our knowledge from private companies, we should not be surprised when the floor gives way beneath us.

💵 Without proper funding structures, essential research tools remain fragile, often maintained by overworked volunteers. Universities must begin funding engineers at competitive salaries and recognizing software development as a legitimate form of scholarship.

👩‍💻 Universities are reluctant to fund software engineers at competitive salaries. A skilled engineer can earn 5x more in industry than in academia, yet most grants deprioritize dedicated engineering roles.

🤔 Much of modern research rests on tools and platforms maintained not by universities or public institutions, but by corporations whose priorities can shift overnight. Knowledge itself is being built on the shifting sand of corporate discretion.

Thanks @insidehighered.com for publishing our OpEd w Annie K. Lamar #publicvoices of The Oped Project @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social ! 🤖Open source software & infra accelerates scientific discoveries by removing financial & technical barriers. It's about time we start treating it as a public good👇