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Announcements

 2025 Commencement: Grad 6/12 | Ugrad 6/13

Employment – Open Level Faculty Positions:

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

Department Events

ECE Seminar Series

 ECE Seminar Series – May 16 (Fri) @ 2:00 PM: "Innovating Robotic Surgery and Telemedicine," Dr. Yulun Wang, Executive Chairman, Sovato Health
 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

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

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

Manjunath – Outstanding Graduate Mentor
Manjunath – Outstanding Graduate Mentor
Mishra: Central Coast Innovation Award
Mishra: Central Coast Innovation Award
Çamsarı: Misha Mahowald Prize
Çamsarı’s OPUS Lab: Misha Mahowald Prize

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