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Matt Perko
UCSB’s Michael Beyeler is using AI to improve visual cortical prostheses, or “bionic eyes.”

Deep learning refines how bionic eyes communicate with the brain

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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
Shuji Nakamura sits on a chair next to lamps
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Matt Perko
Shuji Nakamura

Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura to receive honorary doctorate from University of Oxford
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Brian Long
A new project aims to understand theoretical aspects of quantum cryptography that could be used to protect computing in the future.

Could quantum computers protect privacy and security?
Quantum computing concept illustration with a burst of blue light and string of 0s and 1s
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A robust new telecom qubit in silicon
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Left to right: Samuel Lobo, Devon Callan, Erica Keane Rivera, Ventura Rivera, Austin Dubose

UCSB startup builds software to speed drug discovery
Roark Chao in lab
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Matt Perko
Doctoral student Roark Chao researches microLEDs at UC Santa Barbara

Hair-width LEDs could replace lasers — and a UCSB doctoral student is helping make it happen
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Matt Perko
A researcher works in a campus lab devoted to AI.

UCSB computer science department to offer undergraduate major in AI
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Peptides have found use in over 80 drugs worldwide since insulin was first synthesized in the 1920s.

Scientists unlock a massive new ‘color palette’ for biomedical research by synthesizing non-natural amino acids
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NASA

UCSB scientists bottle the sun with liquid battery
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Matt Perko

UCSB among the world’s most influential research universities for science impact
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