2020 News

October 15, 2020

ECE Professors Ramtin Pedarsani and Mahnoosh Alizadeh project with high-impact potential seeking to solve grand challenges of energy efficiency awarded seed funding from UCSB’s Institute for Energy Efficiency 

October 15, 2020

ECE Professors Zheng Zhang (CE) and Galan Moody (EP) project with high-impact potential seeking to solve grand challenges of energy efficiency awarded seed funding from UCSB’s Institute for Energy Efficiency 

September 29, 2020

UCSB Electrical Engineer Junkai Jiang and Sociologist Annie Hikido receive 2020 Winifred and Louis Lancaster Dissertation Awards

September 14, 2020

In its 2021 listing of the “Top Public Schools, U.S. News & World Report ranks UC Santa Barbara No. 6

September 9, 2020

Prof. John Bowers and researchers from UCSB, Caltech, and EPFL developed a way to integrate an optical frequency comb on a silicon photonic chip

August 13, 2020

Archie L. Holmes (PhD EE '97) has been named the next executive vice chancellor of academic affairs at The University of Texas System by Chancellor James B. Milliken

July 24, 2020

ECE PhD Joseph McMahan receives Outstanding Dissertation Award honorable mention from ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA

June 18, 2020

College of Engineering Dean Rod Alferness and ECE Professor Jonathan Klamkin interviewed about the strict safety protocols and modifications for on-campus research operations gradually resuming after COVID-19 cessation

June 15, 2020

Prof. Jonathan Klamkin's DARPA project aimed at addressing energy-consumption issues associated with lasers, the sources of light in photonic integrated circuits (PICs)

June 13, 2020

Prof. Ramtin Pedarsani's award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory