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Research News
John Bowers, ECE Professor and Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency, to serve as the Director of the Center on Materials for Energy Efficiency Applications ( UC Santa Barbara Today Magazine - Summer '09) - UCSB’S Institute for Energy Efficiency will be home to a new Energy Frontier Research Center, the White House announced this spring. Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the center will receive a total of $19 million over five years. The purpose of the new center is to advance scientific research on energy - pdf... |
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Nanofab Manager Jack Whaley and Director Mark Rodwell featured in UCSB Engineering & Science Magazine Convergence (v. 11) article
about the UCSB Nanofabrication Facility entitled "Share and Share Alike" - The university’s Nanofabrication Facility effectively links local nanotechnology companies and researchers into a chain that stretches across the country. The Nanonfab or cleanroom as it is commonly referred to represents years of collaborative development among UCSB faculty members in identifying and gathering the finest tools and fabrication processes available to create structures and devices at the nanoscale level. In addition to supporting on-campus researchers and local companies, Nanofab is also part of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) - more... (August 9, 2008) |
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New Institute for Energy Efficiency Established at UC Santa Barbara ( Convergence Magazine - Spring '08) - The Institute is under the direction of Professor John Bowers of the ECE Department and involves approximately 50 faculty members from multiple disciplines on the campus. The institute will initially focus on Lighting and Displays; Computing and Networks; Energy Conversion, Transmission, and Storage; Dynamics of Energy Efficiency; Transportation Materials - pdf... |
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Overview
| The ECE Department at UCSB is known for its high-impact and interdisciplinary research conducted with support from a wide array of funding agencies and industrial sponsors. The Department: |
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Enjoyed first ranking by ISI's University Science Indicator for publication impact; |
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Was ranked fourth in citations in the National Research Council's last report (1995); |
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Has nine faculty in the National Academies of Science and Engineering - four of the faculty members are in both academies; |
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Conducts joint projects with most other science and engineering departments on campus; |
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Is supported in research by organizations including NSF, DARPA, NIH, Intel, IBM, SRC, Xilinx, Mitsubishi, and many others, |
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| Research in the ECE Department is carried out within four focus areas: |
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Communications and Signal Processing - which conducts research dealing with digital and analog signal processing, digital communication and networks, data compression (for speech, audio, images, video), image and video processing, computer vision, filtering and estimation, information theory, pattern recognition, and neural networks. |
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Computer Engineering - research projects revolve around computer architecture, embedded and system-on-chip computing, VLSI design and test, methods for assessing heat dissipation, and network-based computing. |
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Control Systems - conducts fundamental research on non-linear/hybrid/robust/adaptive/ distributed control, with applications in areas such as networks, autonomous agents, aerospace, automotive, and biology. |
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Electronics and Photonics - research centers on microelectronics, with a heavy concentration on compound semiconductors for high-speed, high-performance electronic and optoelectronic devices, and the fundamental materials and processing problems associated with the realization of these devices. |
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Research Units
| The following are the main research centers in which the Department is a leading participant. ECE-affiliated contacts are listed below: |
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California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) |
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Center for Bio-Image Informatics (NSF ITR), B.S. Manjunath and Kenneth Rose |
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Center for Control Dynamical System, and Computation (CCDC), J. Hespanha, Assoc. Dir. |
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Center on Materials for Energy Efficiency Applications (CMEEA), John Bowers, Director |
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DARPA Label Switched Optical Router (LASOR), Daniel Blumenthal, Director |
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Greenscale Center for Energy-Efficient Computing |
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Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB), J. Hespanha, and U. Madhow |
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Millimeter Wave Initiative for Nitride Electronics (MINE), Umesh Mishra and Bob York, Directors |
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Nanotech: UCSB Nanofabrication Facility, Mark Rodwell, Director |
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Optoelectronics Technology Center (OTC), Larry Coldren, Director |
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Solid-State Lighting and Display Center (SSLDC), Steven Denbaars, Co-Director |
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UCSB Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE), John Bowers, Director |
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