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Tech Titans – Santa Barbara & UCSB

Press article "Santa Barbara emerges as tech titan thanks to UCSB and Google Quantum AI," Chris Woodyard, SBN-P (Feb 18, 2026) Santa Barbara and Goleta ...
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Manjunath – Appointed Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair

ECE Prof. B.S. Manjunath, is honored as the first Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair — one four endowed chairs in the department From the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering News (RMCOE) article ...
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Chao, DenBaars & Schuller: Hair-width LEDs...

LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to powering next-generation displays. New research co-authored by UC Santa ...
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Erez Berg

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering • UC Santa Barbara 2026 © Regents of the University of California ...
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Feb 26 (Thu) @ 9:00am: "High Power Quantum Dot Gain on Silicon by Heterogeneous Micro Transfer Print Integration," Diya Hu, ECE PhD Defense

Demand for high bandwidth interconnects for data centers, high performance computers, and other applications including sensing, 5G/6G mobile networks, and IoT, has driven the development of high-power ...
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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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Mar 7 (Thur) @ 10:00 am: “Toward End-to-end Reliable Robot Learning for Autonomy and Interaction,” Glen Chou, Postdoc Assoc, MIT

Robots must behave safely and reliably if we are to confidently deploy them in the real world around humans. To complete tasks, robots must manage a complex, interconnected autonomy stack of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...