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Prof. Ming Liu’s group develops a new optical microscopy with nanometer resolution

A research team led by Prof. Ming Liu from ECE and Prof. Ruoxue Yan from Chemical and Environmental Engineering has developed a new optical technique to improve the efficiency of near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) probes by orders of magnitude,...
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Balandin

Balandin receives Brillouin Medal for graphene phonon research

Alexander Balandin, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, has received the Brillouin Medal from the International Phononics Society. The award was presented at the Phononics 2019: 5th International Conference on Phononic Metamaterials, Phonon Transport, and...
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Dr. Bhanu receives the Faculty Research Lecturer Award, the first for BCOE

From its inception (1952) well over half a century ago, the Faculty Research Lecturer Award has been the highest honor that the University of California at Riverside (UCR) Academic Senate bestows. Distinguished Professor Bir Bhanu, Marlan and Rosemary Bourns Endowed...
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GPU Programming

Prof. Wong's GPU computing course highlighted by Nvidia

Nvidia highlighted our undergraduate GPU Computing and Programming course (CS/EE147), developed by Prof. Daniel Wong. The blog post highlighted how NVIDIA Teaching Kits offered by the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute are used and integrated into the university curriculum. This course...
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Final Defense of Dissertation: Alireza Shahsavari
July 19, 2019 @ 11:30 am
WCH 202
Title: Data-Driven Analysis of Distribution Synchrophasors with Applications to Situational Awareness, Load Modeling, and Reliability SHAHSAVARI, A. PhD Dissertation Defense Flyer_0.pdf
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Final Defense of Dissertation: Tahmida Mahmud
June 26, 2019 @ 3:00 pm
WCH 315
TITLE: Near-Future Prediction in Videos: Applications in Video Annotation and Frame Reconstruction MAHMUD, Tahmida Dissertation Flyer.pdf
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Final Defense of Dissertation: Mohammad Billah
June 26, 2019 @ 10:00 am
WCH 315
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A Talk with Ramya Korlakai Vinayak
June 20, 2019 @ 2:10 pm
Bourns Hall 265
TITLE: "Minimax Optimal Learning of Populations of Parameters" Ramya Korlakai Vinayak.pdf
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