ECE News

November 6, 2025

Postdoctoral researcher Shuvro Chowdhury, a member of ECE Professor Kerem Çamsari’s OPUS lab, leads a large team on a bold new benchmarking exercise

November 5, 2025

ECE Professor Daniel Blumenthal's Optical Communications and Atomic Quantum Photonic Integration Group (OCAQπ) joins the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL)

November 1, 2025

ECE and Materials Professor Steven DenBaars heads up UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE), which has expanded its scope by pulling in the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC)

October 21, 2025

ECE Prof. Yasamin Mostofi and her former student Belal Korany, EE PhD '21 receive the honor from the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) for their technical paper on nocturnal epilepsy and using wifi signals for seizure detection

October 17, 2025

Nobel Prize–Winning ECE & Materials Prof. Shuji Nakamura’s company is developing new laser-powered tech that could lead to efficient, endless source of energy

Santa Barbara Independent

October 14, 2025

ECE Professor Galan Moody and Project Scientist Paolo Pintus work toward improving efficiency in quantum computing with the Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) support

October 14, 2025

ECE Prof. Kerem Çamsarı, Postdoc Corentin Delacour and NSF Fellow Kyle Lee, will work toward improving efficiency in large language models with the Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) support

October 13, 2025

Recent rankings uphold UCSB’s status as a leading university across a range of categories — from veterans support to social mobility to academic excellence

October 7, 2025

Recent ECE Ph.D., S. Shailja receives the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI) 2025 Doctoral Consortium "Overall Winner Award" for her dissertation

ECE Spotlights

Hometown: Glendale, CA
Favorite Course: Quantum Photonics (ECE 136C)
Hometown: Claremont, CA
Research Area: Electronics & Photonics
BBC's Witness History highlights Nakamura's 1993 invention of blue LED light, which led to the white LED
ECE Profs J. Bowers, S. DenBaars, S. Nakamura, M. Alizadeh, G. Moody & U. Mishra play a vital role in the creation and current activities in the IEE
Hometown: Santa Maria, CA
Favorite Course: IC Design and Fab II (ECE 120B)
Research Area: Electronics & Photonics
Advisor: Chris Palmstrøm / Palmstrøm Research Group
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Favorite Course: Circuits & Electronics II (ECE 137B)