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James Badham
Yuheng Bu is pursuing a project aimed at advancing watermarking

Yuheng Bu seeks a better way to ensure the trustworthiness of AI-generated text

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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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Left to right: Alice Alldredge, Lars Bildsten and Henry Yang have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Three UCSB professors elected as members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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New model explains how single electrons cause damage inside silicon chips
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Matt Perko
A researcher works in the lab of Ania Bleszynski Jayich

Using mechanical inputs to enhance quantum states in sensors
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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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Gayle Laird ©2021 California Academy of Sciences
Museum collections hold a wealth of data just waiting to be brought into the digital age.

The Big Bee Project brings natural history collections into the 21st century
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Matt Perko
Shuji Nakamura

Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura to receive honorary doctorate from University of Oxford
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New study explores links between early-life gut microbiome and neurodevelopment
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Acute Myelocytic Leukaemia

UCSB researchers develop a genetic sensor that could allow MRIs to image molecular-level changes
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