🎉 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

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.

🧠 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

🎓After 38 years, Professor Forrest Brewer is retiring from UCSB ECE. His work in asynchronous logic, VLSI design, and sigma-delta computation has left a deep mark on this department and on the students he mentored along the way. We are grateful for every one of those 38 years.🙏

🏆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.🔬⚡

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 🧵

@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social is ranked #3 academic institution in the world for automation and control by the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 🏆 At the heart of this success is the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation! Discover 👉 www.ccdc.ucsb.edu

FTP hasn't changed much since the 1990s. But the client software has gotten absurdly bloated. Even in the early 2000s a fully functional GUI-based FTP client was ~ 1 MB. Fit on a single 3.5" disk. I just downloaded a client that was 173 MB. For an FTP client. That's all it does.

🏆 Congratulations to ECE Professor and Aeluma CEO Dr. Jonathan Klamkin on receiving the prestigious IPRM Award from Compound Semiconductor Week! Read more here👇 tinyurl.com/apx9phhc @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

🏥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

🔬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

🎉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

🎉 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

#UCSB's first fully online master's degree is here 💻 Coming to The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering in fall 2027, the new Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership program offers an interdisciplinary curriculum designed for working professionals. Full story: https://ow.ly/Bkls50YZ1B4

The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering is launching METL — the Master of Engineering & Technology Leadership — the first fully online master's degree at UC Santa Barbara, built for working tech professionals around the world 🎓 @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

Big news from our department! 🚀 Prof. Daniel Blumenthal and his group, in collaboration with @UMassAmherst, have demonstrated a chip-scale stabilized laser for trapped-ion quantum systems. 🔗https://bit.ly/4vgq7Wt @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social has officially secured the #1 spot in the nation for U.S. utility patents!🚀🥼 With 571 patents granted in 2025, UC generates nearly twice as many inventions as the second-place university. Full story: ow.ly/j8VU50Yx5Hg #winning #up

The future of quantum is being built right here in the OCAQπ Lab!⚛️✨ Last Friday, March 13, @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social hosted "Quantum California" – bringing together state leaders and industry icons to explore the groundbreaking research happening in our department ⚡️🥼

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

Congratulations to ECE & Materials Distinguished Professor Steven DenBaars for receiving the 2026 @optica.org Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award! 🏆💡 Read more about this prestigious honor: bit.ly/4lj15RH #UCSB #Engineering #Optica #LED #Sustainability #GaN

Silicon, the material behind computer chips, plays to the strengths of the trillion-dollar semiconductor industry. Researchers at #UCSB have identified a new qubit in silicon, called the CN center, which can bridge the gap between quantum science & scalable technology: https://ow.ly/LGZ450Yn4np

I’m pleased to share that I've been selected as a Fellow of the 2026 Thinking About Thinking Program! I’m grateful to join a global, research-led ecosystem engaging thoughtfully with how AI is developed, governed, and understood. @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social

Excellent work by Roark Chao and the UCSB team on their recent publication in Optica Express⚡️. These new microLED designs represent a major step forward for the future of data centers and display technology. Read more below👇 bit.ly/4sejwcL

🏆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

Exciting news from OCAQpi! Researchers @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social have advanced photonics with PZT-integrated SiN microcomb resonators. 🌟 Dive into this innovation: https://tinyurl.com/258gp9x4

So it’s real but it’s artificial therefore it’s fake so it’s a Real Fake Smart Seminar Series?

Love to see it from @fatihdinc.bsky.social 😼🐼 Looking forward to seeing future talks from @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbece.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

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 🎙️👇

Join us Jan 23 for the inaugural CRML Agentic AI Summit at @ucsb.bsky.social. Researchers, industry, and students exploring how agentic AI drives discovery and real-world impact. Free to attend, limited space: ml.ucsb.edu/events/summi... #AgenticAI #ResponsibleAI #AIResearch

It's not Snell's law. It's Snel's law. And actually, it's really Sahl's law. labrigger.com/blog/2026/01...

What to do? The simplest thing people can do is to stand on principle. Don’t compromise values thinking that will buy comfort. Those that hoped for that lost both. It’s actually more comfortable to stand on principle. More people want that. You’ve got good company.

Fortunately, there's a resource to improve benchmarking of multiphoton systems. So things can get better. Here's the paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... And here's the free PMC version PDF (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) (3/3)

The key issue is that the authors who try to make comparisons don't have access to all of the systems and can't make apples-to-apples comparisons. But they present an illusion of that, using anecdotes in place of rigorous comparisons. Which makes the comparisons wrong. (2/3)

Comparing multiphoton (2p/3p) imaging systems is often done poorly. labrigger.com/blog/2026/01... E.g., PSFs can be measured differently by different labs, staining quality is by far the biggest determinate on how multiphoton images will look at depth, and so forth. (1/3)

Researchers at UCSB have found an alarming uptick in diseases in the Amazon basin, which could be driven by the changes in land. "These emerging infectious diseases are indicators of broader environmental issues." Full story: https://ow.ly/XtJF50Y0oUe

#UCSB researchers found that exposure to hot, humid conditions during pregnancy is more dangerous than high temperatures alone 🌡️ This heat stress can even induce premature labor. Full story: https://ow.ly/ZHWq50XSff1

Moneyball 2.0! Discover how @mathildepapillon.bsky.social 's research is transforming AI for sports with the LA Dodgers! ⚾️ #ProudAdvisor @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social

Exciting announcement ✨ Our work on brain-inspired AI computing, led by PhD student Boxun Xu and Prof. Peng Li, received ICCAD William J. McCalla Best Paper Award nominations in 2024 and 2025. Joint work with Georgia Tech and USC! #UCSB #ICCAD2024 #ICCAD2025 #EfficientAI

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👇

Huge thanks to S. Kushner L. Pereira @adelemyers.bsky.social @louisacornelis.bsky.social L. Pritschet Sheila S. D. Martin de Blas H. Grotzinger I. Stelzer L. Chrastil K. Casaletto K. Jordan @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social 🧠

Thanks @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social for highlighting our #TIMEBestInvention of the Year award! tinyurl.com/4939bxu5 This strengthens our commitment to innovating for women's brain health with @ai-ucsb.bsky.social & @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social 🧠

Congrats to Sarah Kushner Luís F. Pereira @adelemyers.bsky.social @louisacornelis.bsky.social Laura Pritschet Sheila S. Daniel Martin de Blas Hannah Grotzinger Ina Stelzer Liz Chrastil Kaitlin Casaletto Kaya Jordan @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social 🧠

Thrilled to see HerBrain on #TIME Best Inventions of 2025! It shows how the anatomy of the brain changes week-by-week through pregnancy and postpartum 🧠 @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social !

Rumor has it Mother Nature might be the best AI engineer🌱💡 Come see why at Brass Bear Brewing, Nov 13 @ 6pm. With Dr. Fatih Dinc, we’ll dive into how brains, bots, and biology compute with intelligence

#UCSB research has a direct impact on your life through advancements in health, disaster management strategies & much more 🧬 From the local level to the global stage, research conducted on our campus is helping improve the present & secure the future 👉 https://ow.ly/HRZB50XgZUI

Details on our research and how to apply to our lab are on our website: gi.ece.ucsb.xn--edu-v113b @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social

Materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza has been recognized with the 2025 Young Investigator Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), the nation’s largest association supporting Hispanics in STEM.👏 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/materia...