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Expanding the Reach of Computing Research
Computer science undergraduate student Ashwin Chembu took the international stage at the 2024 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research in Melbourne, Australia, to present his research on exploratory reading groups, which showed an increased sense of belonging and confidence in computing research activities among 136 students.
App Design Supports Health in Older Adults
Associate Professor of Computer Science Hao-Chuan Wang’s visual interface design of I-Care, a new platform that connects cognitively impaired older adults with their remote caregivers, uses human-computer interaction insights to translate data received by sensors into images that reflect the needs of the user and achieve better health outcomes.
NSF Partnership to Leverage AI for Ocean Research
The NSF's Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences program has awarded $1 million to Assistant Professor of Computer Science Maike Sonnewald and UC Santa Cruz researchers, who will develop an AI system to analyze satellite and ocean data, providing insights into how processes like ocean currents influence the ocean's heat storage.
2024 Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Awardees
Seven faculty across the College of Engineering — Audrey Fan, Boris Jeremic, Harishankar Manikantan, Julian Panetta, Cindy Rubio González, Kari Watkins and Weijian Yang — were recognized by UC Davis Graduate Studies for their commitment and outstanding contributions to the graduate student experience.
Next-Gen Materials
The Army Research Office awarded $150,000 to Assistant Professor Mingwei Zhang to build a high-throughput computational framework to quickly identify refractory high entropy alloys, or RHEAs, that can stretch or bend without breaking at room temperature. RHEAs show potential as next-generation materials for deep space exploration, environmental sustainability and defense.
Silicon Carbide Wafers for Quantum Technologies
Electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student and Radulaski Research Group member Pranta Saha won the best poster prize at a seminar on silicon carbide quantum and classical technologies for his work on a reactive ion beam etching process to scale the fabrication of nanophotonic devices in silicon carbide wafers for use in quantum networks.