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Lighting the Way: Where Photonics Fits...
As AI becomes embedded in modern life, the hardware powering it is running up against its physical limits. Meanwhile, its energy consumption is straining energy grids and increasing scrutiny over AI's environmental footprint.
Initiative led by Khargonekar receives...
Pramod Khargonekar, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will serve as principal investigator on a landmark new five-year cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate to support the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA). The award provides nearly $8 million in projected funding through August 2031, positioning UCI at the forefront of efforts to shape the nation's future engineering research agenda.
New Grant Supports Research on RNA-Protein...
The brain's ability to form memories and process information depends on proteins that bind to RNA molecules inside neurons. With support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Fangyuan Ding's lab at UC Irvine is developing a new tool to observe these interactions.
People of ACM - Athina Markopoulou
Athina Markopoulou is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). She is also the director of UCI’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and of the Samueli School of Engineering’s e+Society Institute on AI (ProperAI).
Naomi Chesler: Researching How Female...
Naomi Chesler on why women display symptoms may be different than those of men when they have heart attacks
Two UCI Researchers Make Breakthroughs...
Using a kitchen microwave to synthesize battery materials and teaching a quantum computer to predict the behavior of materials are some of the key breakthroughs that two Ph.D. students at the UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering have made during their fellowship with the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) this past year. The UCI-LANL-SoCalHub Research Fellowship gives selected students who are working in areas of common interest with the national lab the opportunity to be mentored by a UCI professor and a LANL scientist.
New Summer Academy Immerses High School...
That week was the inaugural summer academy of M-SEA – the Self-Healing Ocean Infrastructure and Marine Science and Engineering Academy – a research and education program at the UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Ocean Institute and supported by the Nicholas Endowment.