Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

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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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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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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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 – 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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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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ECE Seminar Series – Dec 1 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Stimulated Brillouin Lasers and Optical References in 100 Million Q Factor Silicon Nitride Waveguide Resonator," Kaikai Liu, Ph.D ...

Silicon nitride material with a wide transparency window (400 nm - 3 um) makes the lowest waveguide to date, down to 0.04 dB/m at C band and 0.2 dB/m at visible wavelength such as 674 nm and 780 nm.
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Sep 20 (Fri) @ 11:00am: "Development of Advanced DLTS Applied to Next Generation of Materials and Devices," Christopher Clymore, ECE PhD Defense

The demand for improved power conversion, 5G/6G telecom, and other RF applications necessitates the development of devices with, variously, higher frequency of operation, higher output power, greater ...
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Mar 14 (Tue) @ 2:30pm: "Incorporating Human Visual Properties into Neural Network Models," Aditya Jonnalagadda, ECE PhD Defense

Many animals and humans process the visual field with varying spatial resolution (foveated vision) and use peripheral processing to make intelligent eye movements and point the fovea to acquire ...
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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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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 – Dec 8 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Distributed Compression in the Era of Machine Learning," Elza Erkip, Institute Professor, ECE, NYU

Many modern applications from camera arrays to federated learning depend on distributed collection, processing and communication of correlated data, requiring efficient compression techniques to ...