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Announcements

Apr 24-27: All Gaucho Reunion Weekend 2025

Employment – Open Level Faculty Positions:

Electronics & Photonics, Emerging Technologies
 Architecture/Hardware/Software Interfaces

Department Events

ECE Seminar Series

 May 21 (Wed) @ 2:00pm: "Progress in Brightness, Power and Efficiency of Semiconductor Lasers for High Power Applications," Paul O. Leisher, PhD, VP of Research & Fellow, Luminar Technologies

Our Research

Nature Photonics: Pintus, Dumont, Moody, and Bowers
Bowers "New Optical Memory Platform for Faster Calculations"
THE Interdisciplinary Science Research: ranks UCSB #8 globally
THE Interdisciplinary Science Research – UCSB #8 globally
COE: "The Nanofab: An Innovation Ctr."
COE: "The Nanofab: An Innovation Ctr."
ECE Seminar Series
ECE Seminar Series

Our Spotlights

BBC – Nakamura & the White LED
BBC – Nakamura & the White LED
U.S. News – EE Grad Program #15 Public
U.S. News – ECE & COE Among the Best
Glimpse of the ECE Undergraduate Experience
A Glimpse of the ECE Undergraduate Experience

Our Featured Research News

Manjunath "$5M NSF Grant for Cyberstructure for Multimodal Imaging"
Manjunath "$5M NSF Grant for Cyberstructure for Multimodal Imaging"
Theogarajan & Çamsarı "Probabilistically Speaking"
Theogarajan & Çamsarı "Probabilistically Speaking"
Haewon Jeong "Cleaning up Dirty Data"
Haewon Jeong "Cleaning up Dirty Data"

Our Faculty

Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize, Physics 2014

Shuji Nakamura, Physics 2014

Arthur Gossard, National Medal of Science & Technology, Physics 2014

Arthur Gossard, Physics 2014

Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize, Physics 2000

Herbert Kroemer, Physics 2000

Glen Culler, National Medal of Science & Technology, Physics

Glen Culler, Physics 1999

Our Recent Honors

Mishra: Central Coast Innovation Award
Mishra: Central Coast Innovation Award
Çamsarı: Misha Mahowald Prize
Çamsarı’s OPUS Lab: Misha Mahowald Prize
Zhang: IGSB SW Impact Grant
Zhang: IGSB SW Impact Grant

Our Students

Grad Spotlight: Sabrina Maldonado
Grad Spotlight: Sabrina Maldonado
Kyle Lee & J. Prescott: NSF GRFP Fellows
K. Lee & J. Prescott: NSF GRFP Fellowships
Undergrad Spotlight: Chris Maldonado-Salido
Undergrad Spotlight: Chris Maldonado-Salido