Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

Moody Lab: Chip-scale Magnetometer

Based on a magneto-optic material, the precision magnetometer could enable light-weight and low-power sensing for space, navigation and medical applications.
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ECE Seminar Series – Dec 8 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: “Vector Search: High Throughput and Robust Query Processing and Modern Benchmarks,” Teemu Roos, Prof, CS, U of Helsinki

The rapidly evolving field of vector databases offers solutions for many real-world AI pipelines, including retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and multimodal semantic search. These pipelines require ...
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Dec 3 (Wed) @9:00am: "Improving Friction Modeling for Robotics via Physics Informed Neural Networks," Asutay Ozmen, ECE PhD Defense

Location: Harold Frank Hall (HFH), Room 4110B (ECE Conf. Rm.) Accurately modeling friction in robotics remains a core challenge, as robotics simulators like Mujoco and PyBullet use simplified friction ...
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Dec 1 (Mon) @ 1:00pm: "Adaptive Methods for Prediction and Frame Reconstruction in Video Coding," Zeyu Deng, ECE PhD Defense

Efficient video compression relies heavily on accurate block prediction and effective frame reconstruction, both of which depend on statistical models that capture the characteristics of the encoded ...
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ECE Seminar Series (GSA) – Three Mini Talks by ECE PhD Students

Three short talks by UCSB PhD students Roark Chao, Poorva Shukla, and Abdelrahman S. Abdelrahman presenting a wide array of ECE topics from photonics to dynamical systems to quantum algorithms. All ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Oct 10 (Fri) @ 2:00 PM: "Co-Packaged Optical Transceivers for HPC, Data Center, and AI Applications," Daniel M. Kuchta, Principal Hardware System ...

This talk will cover the status of co-packaging efforts, both VCSEL- and SiPh-based, where they fit into the Ethernet switch market and the evolving Computer IO market, and how these technologies are ...
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Sep 9 (Tues) @ 2:00PM: "Optimization of Emerging Relaying Paradigms in Next-Generation Communication Networks," Winston Hurst, ECE PhD Defense

Zoom Meeting: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/88579819067?pwd=4ajB7I2IC8XscRDssQUU2YdkDSKHPn.1 Next-generation communication systems will leverage emerging paradigms to ...
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Jun 20 (Fri) @11 AM: "Anneal-Free Ultra-low Loss Silicon Nitride Integrated Photonics For Monolithic Integration," Debapam Bose, ECE PhD Defense

Zoom Meeting : https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84907371231?pwd=cloq2z4YNPnWmFx1ORKxzaiWpeAtri.1 Heterogeneous and monolithic integration of the versatile low-loss silicon ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Jun 6 (Fri) @ 2:00 pm: “Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits, John E. Bowers, Dir. of the Inst. for Energy Efficiency and Prof. ECE and Materials, UCSB

Tremendous progress is being made at silicon photonic foundries around the world to improve the performance, yield and capability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and that is opening up new ...
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Mar 13 (Thu) @ 7:30pm: "Design of ASIC Ising Machines for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems," Jooyoung Bae, ECE PhD Defense

Combinatorial Optimization Problems (COPs) are prevalent in our daily lives, from route searching to optimal placement or optimization of scheduling. Solving these problems effectively can lead to ...
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March 13th (Thu) @ 11:00 am: "Optimizing Process Technologies for Nitrogen-Polar GaN Devices," Emmanuel Kayede, ECE PhD Defense

As interest in communication and imaging at millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequencies grows, the demand for high-performance transistor technologies becomes increasingly critical. Nitrogen-polar gallium ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Mar 3 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: "Can Spintronics Help Make Computing More Efficient?," Mark Stiles, NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology

In this talk, I discuss why computer designers are looking to develop novel ways of computing for a variety of common but specialized tasks, why spintronic devices, particularly magnetic tunnel ...