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Matt Perko
Left to right: Chris Palmstrøm, Chris Van de Walle, Michel Devoret

Rebuilding the heart of a quantum computer

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Bruce Damonte
Henley Hall, home to UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency, is LEED Platinum certified, underscoring the institute’s focus on reducing the energy demands of advanced technologies

Institute for Energy Efficiency invests in energy-efficient AI, data centers and quantum technologies
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Matt Perko
Doctoral researcher Roark Chao in UCSB's Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center laboratory

Red microLEDs developed at UCSB achieve record efficiency of 20.8%, operate at up to 200°C
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Matt Perko
Nina Miolane, seated, and Haewon Jeong, standing, are co-directors, with colleague Yao Qin, of the Real AI initiative launched at UCSB in 2026.

Powerhouse UCSB team awarded big grant to investigate mathematical foundations of AI
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Matt Perko
Distinguished Professor John Bowers

John Bowers honored by UC Regents for a lifetime of innovation
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UCSB Professor Haewon Jeong's PhD student Neel Sankaran (left) with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Min Sang Cho (right).

UCSB, Lawrence Livermore collaborate to accelerate fusion plasma simulations with AI
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Lili Walker
Arin Abed qualifies the newly installed semiconductor packaging equipment at UCSB's Protofab.

UCSB launches prototyping hub for packaging microchips and photonics
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If the mind is a symphony, the orchestra playing it remains obscured.

New mathematical frameworks reveal how stable thoughts emerge from chaotic brain activity
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College of Engineering launches UCSB’s first fully online master’s degree program
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Jeff Liang

UCSB to join major collaboration supporting battery innovation and commercialization
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Team UCSB-WA (left to right): coach Wesley Hung ‘24 (CoE Computer Science), Ezra Furtado-Tiwari ‘28 (CCS Computing, Mathematics), Om Mahesh ‘28 (CCS Mathematics; CoE Computer Science) and David Qiao ‘26 (CoE Computer Science; L&S Mathematics)

UCSB team heads to world finals in Dubai for programming competition
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Matt Perko

NSF-funded program supports and retains first-year engineers
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Researchers demonstrate integrated stabilized laser chips performing clock and quantum operations on a room temperature trapped ion qubit
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