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Hongwei Zhao selected for EECS Rising Stars Workshop

IPL Ph.D. student Hongwei Zhao was selected to participate in Rising Stars 2019, an academic career workshop for women in electrical engineering,  computer engineering, and computer science (EECS) hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1.  Launched at MIT in 2012, the annual event has since been hosted at the University of California…

Prof. Klamkin receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

Prof. Klamkin has received the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA). The objective of the DARPA YFA program is to identify and engage rising research stars at U.S. academic institutions and introduce them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process. The YFA program provides funding, mentoring and industry and DoD contacts…

Klamkin, Coldren, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center win NASA Grant to Develop Lidar Remote Sensing Technology for Space

Jonathan Klamkin and Larry Coldren, both in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and affiliated with the Optoelectronics Technologies Center (OTC), have received one of twelve highly competitive NASA research awards to produce low-SWaP integrated micro-photonic circuits for satellite-based Lidar applications. The three-year award is part of the space agency’s $14 million Advanced…

iPL Visiting PhD Student Yisbel Marin receives Best Student Presentation Award at SPIE Photonics West

Yisbel Marin, who is visiting from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna where she works with Prof. Fabrizio Di Pasquale on fiber and integrated sensors, received the Best Student Presentation award at the symposium on “Frontiers in Biological Detection” at SPIE Photonics West BIOS. Yibel presented her paper “Silicon photonic biochemical sensor on chip based on balanced…

ECE Electronics & Photonics researchers receive Department of Energy (DOE) grant for $4.4 million

UCSB ECE Professors Clint Schow, Adel Saleh, Jim Buckwalter, Jonathan Klamkin, and Larry Coldren win a grant to develop integrated photonics technology that will make it possible to incorporate photonics right onto the switch chip, eliminating the need for comparatively inefficient copper wiring. The team projects at least a 90-percent reduction in network power usage…