@ucsbece

Official account of UC Santa Barbara's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

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Joined October 2023
What does it take to build the world's most precise clocks? ⚛️⏱️ UCSB ECE Prof. Daniel Blumenthal is part of NSF's $290M Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes renewal, putting lasers on chips 🔬 📖 engineering.ucsb.edu/news/77… #UCSBECE #Quantum @UCSBEngineering @ucsantabarbara
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So excited to see this awesome tool (I'm biased) at work in my academic world🔥 It has helped me kickstart some exciting advances in explainable non-euclidean ML... stay tuned!
Thank you @GoodfireAI for awarding our lab a research grant on: Geometric Intelligence for AI Interpretability and Safety!🌟 At @geometric_intel, we transform intelligence research from an expensive engineering endeavor into a mathematical science where we can predict behavior.
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It’s the start of Fall quarter and our graduate students are returning to campus! 🔬💡 See what they have to say about where a PhD at UCSB ECE can take you. 🚀 🎥 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=vPOKkRKQ… @UCSBengineering @ucsantabarbara
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UCSB ECE Professor @ninamiolane @UCSBengineering is taking the stage to discuss AI safety and the mathematics behind it!
🗓️ Join me on October 7 for one of the inaugural lectures of the Science of Intelligence Institute at @UCBerkeley ! Can we write scientific laws for intelligence? I believe that we can, that the math for it already exists, and that they apply across brains & machines. tinyurl.com/mvrfs39w
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Every mature engineering discipline found another route to safety. We do not keep bridges standing by watching them closely. We understand the loads they carry to compute, in advance, what they can bear. Safety follows understanding. Understanding means scientific laws that predict behavior before it happens. Can we write such laws for intelligence? I believe that we can, that the mathematics for it already exists, and that they apply across brains and machines. 🤖 🧠 Join the discussion on Oct 7th!
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🗓️ Join me on October 7 for one of the inaugural lectures of the Science of Intelligence Institute at @UCBerkeley ! Can we write scientific laws for intelligence? I believe that we can, that the math for it already exists, and that they apply across brains & machines. tinyurl.com/mvrfs39w
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🎉The results are in! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the @TAGinDS 2026 Topological Deep Learning Challenge, sponsored by @ARLQ_AI and @newtheoryai 🎉 This was our largest edition yet: 60+ submissions from 50+ participants across 15+ institutions! 🧵👇
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AI researchers should do exploratory data analysis (PCA, etc) before building models or running interp pipelines. But what does this look like for data on topological domains? Discover TopoExplorer!🍩 W/@mathildepapillo @gbg1441 A Barreiro M Montagna @ARLQ_AI R Devaux A Jardin
Ever wondered what a lifted topological dataset actually looks like? Creating a topological dataset from a graph is usually a black box endeavor... you make it, train the model, and decide post-hoc if it worked. Meet TopoExplorer🔍 published @TAGinDS topoexplorer.pagekite.me
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🎉Congratulations to Guillermo Bernárdez Gil! Thrilled to share that our postdoc, Guille, has been awarded the 2026 Extraordinary Doctoral Award by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Congrats, Guille, so proud to have you on our team👏 🔗tinyurl.com/43hbr9t3
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Exciting news!🧠 The 5th annual NeurReps Workshop, Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations, returns to #NeurIPS 2026, in person on December 11 or 12 in Sydney. Submit your research on symmetry, geometry, and topology in artificial and biological neural networks.
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Pleased to share that the NeurReps Workshop returns for its 5th edition at NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney this December. A great venue for research in geometry, topology, and neural network representations, in both artificial and biological systems.🧪
Exciting news!🧠 The 5th annual NeurReps Workshop, Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations, returns to #NeurIPS 2026, in person on December 11 or 12 in Sydney. Submit your research on symmetry, geometry, and topology in artificial and biological neural networks.
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🏆Congrats to Prof. Pradeep Sen and former PhD student Nima Kalantari who were just awarded the SIGGRAPH Test-of-Time Award for their 2015 paper that transformed computer graphics rendering! Read more here👇 tinyurl.com/mvh569zx @UCSBengineering @ucsantabarbara
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It was the first ML approach to Monte Carlo denoising and the ideas still power nearly every modern denoiser today. This is what the SIGGRAPH 2026 Test-of-Time Award honors: research whose impact only grows with age. 🕰️
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Huge congrats to the team. Nima is now an Associate Professor at Texas A&M, and Steve Bako is at Aurora Innovation. Proud to see our research community shaping the future of graphics, 10+ years on!🎓🖥️
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Our review on superposition in AI & brains is published in @Nature #Machine #Intelligence 🌐 Neural networks encode concepts in superposition. We can recover them in 3 steps: identifiability, compressed sensing, interpretability. W/ @klindt_david @oneill_c @rpatrik96 H Maurer🌟
Our review on superposition in AIs and brains is finally published in Nature Machine Intelligence 🙌 nature.com/articles/s42256-0…
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This just in: we are hiring a Lab Manager😼 Looking for a detail-oriented and organized UC Santa Barbara undergraduate to oversee administrative projects, event coordination, social media presence, and more in the lab.⚛️ Apply here👇 tinyurl.com/5bwmcmkw
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🔵⚡Big feature in @CNN this week on our very own Prof. Shuji Nakamura (Materials & ECE). The man who lit up the world with blue LEDs, and now wants to power it too. 🔗tinyurl.com/msm4h9bf @ucsantabarbara @UCSBengineering
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The target: a 1-gigawatt pilot fusion plant near Santa Barbara by 2032. Which would be enough to power 750,000–1,000,000 homes. When CNN asked him if this could be his greatest gift to the world yet, Nakamura simply said: "yeah, yeah" No hesitation. 😄
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His advice to the next generation of scientists: "Taking a risk is most important."🚀Proud to have him as part of the UCSB ECE family.
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