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Mishra – UCSB’s New R&D Facility OASIS

A launchpad for cutting-edge technologies, the new OASIS facility helps power UCSB’s impact on innovation and U.S. economic growth From The UCSB Current article "Goleta R&D hub positions UCSB as ...
Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

Mishra – UCSB’s New R&D Facility

A launchpad for cutting-edge technologies, the new facility helps power UCSB’s impact on innovation and U.S. economic growth From The UCSB Current article "Goleta R&D hub positions UCSB as national ...
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Mar 7 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: "Next Generation Intelligent and Secured Wireless World: From IoT and Sensors to Wideband and Multi-bands Scalable Circuit and System,” Najme Ebrahimi, UFL

The future intelligent and secured wireless world needs connectivity at any time anywhere and under severe multipath and weather environments with over one trillion sensors and Internet-of-Things (IoT ...
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Mar 13 (Wed) @ 9:00am: “Safe Robot Autonomy in Interactive Open-World Environments, Accelerated by Generative AI,” Roya Firoozi, Postdoc Researcher, Stanford

Generative AI offers the potential to empower autonomous robots with the ability (i) to connect abstract concepts to 3D scene geometry and (ii) to enable complex intention prediction and collaboration ...
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Sep 18 (Wed) @ 11:00am: "High Performance Quantum Dot Gain Devices for Heterogeneous Integration on Silicon Photonics," Chongxin (Tyler) Zhang, ECE PhD Defense

In the past decades, most telecom, datacom, and sensor systems have been developed based on discrete optical components. As the demand for data transfer is rapidly rising, the need to reduce cost, ...
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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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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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Feb 18 (Fri) @ 1:00pm: "Integrated Electronics for Energy-Efficient Direct and Coherent Detection in Data Center Optical Interconnects," Luis A. Valenzuela, ECE PhD Defense

Data centers are the pillars of modern internet infrastructure that have enabled the proliferation of emerging cloud applications, social media, and artificial intelligence, among others that are ...
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Mar 6 (Wed) @ 4:00pm: “Silicon Photonics for LiDAR, Augmented Reality, Biophotonics, Quantum Engineering, and Beyond,” Jelena Notaros, EECS, MIT

Jelena Notaros is the Robert J. Shillman Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. and ...
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Aug 16th (Fri) @ 10:00 am: “Photonic Architectures for In-Memory Computing Using Nonvolatile Optical Materials,” Nathan Youngblood, Ass’t. Prof., ECE, Pitt

Abstract Photonics information processing strategies offer the unique ability to perform analog computation with ultra-low latency and high efficiency. However, designing compact and reconfigurable ...