2026 News

May 20, 2026

ECE Prof. Pradeep Sen and former students receive the 2026 recognition for their paper “A Machine Learning Approach for Filtering Monte Carlo Noise (2015)"

May 10, 2026

ECE Ass't. Prof. Nina Miolane, alongside Materials Prof. and Dir. of CNSI Simon Billange, discussed how her group employs AI in brain science at UCSB Library's "AI in Action Speaker Series"

May 1, 2026

New Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL) program expands access to UCSB’s engineering education for working professionals worldwide

April 20, 2026

ECE undergraduate Roland Yin, among students with ties to the department, receives one of the nation’s most prestigious fellowships

April 10, 2026

Six graduate programs including ECE in The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara placed among the nation’s best in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report rankings

March 30, 2026

ECE Prof. Daniel Blumenthal's OCAQπ Group demonstrate integrated stabilized laser chips performing clock and quantum operations on a room temperature trapped ion qubit

March 19, 2026

ECE Prof. Steven DenBaars selected for two prestigious awards named for Holonyak, who in 1962 achieved fame for demonstrating the first semiconductor laser diode to emit visible light

March 18, 2026

ECE Professor James Buckwalter cited by the  U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for his “remarkable achievements as an academic inventor and a rising leader in his field”

March 11, 2026

The Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce TechTopia 2026 Summit, an immersive half-day gathering celebrating the Coast’s vibrant innovation ecosystem

March 10, 2026

ECE Professor Spencer Smith's SLAB lab-designed invention may expand what neuroscientists can learn about the brain