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Research News
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The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index has placed the UCSB Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at number 10 and the Computer Engineering Program at number six in their 2005 rankings of top research universities. The index by Academic Analytics ranks 7,294 individual doctoral programs in 104 disciplines at 354 institutions - more... |
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Research Highlights from Publications
Silicon and Beyond ( Convergence Magazine) - Has the semiconductor revolution run iits course? Not quite, say these researchers, who are working on new materials and looking for a miracle or two. To understand the SRC Nonclassical CMOS Research Center, a joint project of electrical engineering and materials experts from UC Santa Barbara and other leading universities, it helps to know some terminology and some history" - pdf... |
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Center for Bio-Image Informatics ( ECE Newsletter)- "The only thing more surprising than an engineer lecturing on proteins and antibodies is a biologist holding forth on Bayesian networks and Hidden Markov Models. At UCSB’s Center for Bio-Image Informatics, both are routine occurrences. Years of joint efforts by the Center’s biologists and engineers have not only erased disciplinary boundaries, but are also yielding powerful new algorithms for analyzing biological images" - more... |
World's First Hybrid Silicon Laser (ECE Newsletter) - "Joint research between UCSB and Intel has resulted in the world’s first electrically powered Hybrid Silicon Laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes. This breakthrough addresses one of the last major barriers to producing low-cost, high-bandwidth silicon photonics devices for use inside and around future computers and data centers" - more... |
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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 by the National Research Council's 1995 report; |
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Has eight faculty in the National Academies of Science and Engineering - three 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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Control Systems, which 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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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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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), Evelyn Hu, Scientific Director |
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Millimeter Wave Initiative for Nitride Electronics (MINE), Umesh Mishra and Bob York, Directors |
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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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DARPA Label Switched Optical Router (LASOR), Daniel Blumenthal, Director |
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Nanotech: UCSB Nanofabrication Facility, Mark Rodwell, Director |
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The 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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Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB), E. Hu, J. Hespanha, and U. Madhow |
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