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Department News

Quantum Supremacy paper coauthored by Korotkov

The Google AI Quantum team published a landmark paper on Quantum Supremacy (see the paper and blog ). For the first time, it was demonstrated that a programmable quantum processor can compute a well-defined mathematical problem which is impossible for...
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Mihri Ozkan elevated to National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Mihri Ozkan is the first woman in the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering and the fifth UC Riverside professor to be elevated to the National Academy of Inventors. The NAI Fellows Program highlights...
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Prof. Mohsenian-Rad Named IEEE Fellow

Professor Hamed Mohsenian-Rad is named as Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The honor is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE...
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Balandin and Ren named 2019 Highly Cited Researchers

Professor Alexander Balandin and Professor Wei Ren have been named to the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by the Web of Science Group, a Clarivate Analytics company (formerly part of Thomson Reuters). Highly Cited Researchers are among those who...
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Events

Graduate Virtual Open House
December 03, 2019 @ 9:00 am
This will be hosted via Zoom. Meeting details will be shared to all RSVP's by 12 / 02.
Join us for our very first virtual grad program open house on Tuesday, December 3rd! Please RSVP here.
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Colloquium by Manmohan Chandraker
December 02, 2019 @ 11:00 am
Bourns Hall A265
Title: Augmented Reality in a New Light: Physically‐Based Deep Networks for Inverse Rendering
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Colloquium by Ilya Krivorotov
November 25, 2019 @ 11:00 am
Bourns Hall A265
Title: Novel Spin-Orbit Torques
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Colloquium by Olena Gomonay
November 18, 2019 @ 11:00 am
Bourns Hall A265
Title: Antiferromagnetic spintronics: dynamics and textures
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PhD Defenses

Final Defense of Dissertation: Joshua Plank

Directed Synthesis of Asymmetric Au/ZnS Photocatalytic Nanomaterials by M13

Final Defense of Dissertation: Chase Cook

Simulation for Reliability, Hardware Security, and Ising Computing in VLSI Chip Design

Final Defense of Dissertation: Nima Djavid

Modeling of topological states of matter: Gate controlled Majorana fermions and transport signature of antiferromagnetic Skyrmions

Final Defense of Dissertation: Chenyang Li

Thermal Conductivity and Phonon Properties of Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Final Defense of Dissertation: Brandon Foggo

Information Losses in Neural Classifiers with Applications to Training Data Selection Strategies and Cyber Physical Systems
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$8M+
New research grants in 2018/19
#31
in the US according to the US News 2020 Global University Rankings
200+, 450+
Total graduate and undergraduate students
13, 11
Fellows of IEEE, NAI and other organizations; NSF CAREER and Young Investigator Awards