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Blumenthal: Joins NSF's Nat'l Quantum Virtual Laboratory

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) ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Oct 31 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Signal Processing Meets RF Hardware: Compensating RF Nonidealities in Future Wireless Systems,” Nuutti Tervo, Visiting ...

Radio frequency (RF) transmitters and receivers contain multiple nonideal hardware components. In modern transceiver architectures, understanding their behavior and properties is essential for ...
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Moody & Pintus – IEE Research Seed

ECE Professor Galan Moody and Project Scientist Paolo Pintus work toward improving efficiency in quantum computing with the Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) support This month, three UCSB ...
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Shailja – MICCAI Doctoral Consortium "Overall Winner Award"

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 Shailja ...
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Mostofi & Korany – IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Paper Award

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 ...
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Prospective Students & Apply

The ECE department offers both Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Applicants must specify one of three programs: MS Program: for students who are primarily interested in a Master's ...
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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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May 20 (Mon) @ 11:30am: "Advances in Nitrogen-polar GaN HEMTs Enabling Adoption in mm-Wave Applications," Henry Collins, ECE PhD Defense

Emerging high-frequency technologies such as satellite communication, 5G telecommunication, and autonomous vehicles necessitate the development of mm-wave power amplifiers. In this work, performance ...
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Jul 19 (Tue) @ 12:00pm: "Improving Gain and Efficiency of N-polar GaN Deep Recess HEMT for mm-Wave Applications," Weiyi Li, ECE PhD Defense

GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have been demonstrated to be a leading technology for RF millimeter-wave application. While GaN technologies utilizing the Ga-polar (0001) ...
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Aug 28 (Mon) @ 3:30pm:” Millimeter-Wave GaN Device Modeling and Circuit Design,” Rohit Reddy Karnaty, ECE PhD Defense

Gallium Nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) offer significant advantages in microwave power applications, yet their scaling for high power in millimeter-wave (mmW) bands presents ...
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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 ...