Expert in origami robots, soft robotics and programable matter to join Jacobs...
Michael Tolley, who will become an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Jacobs School Nov. 1, is one of the co-authors on a paper about self-folding robots published in Science today....
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Bioengineering professor featured on "Sex in the Wild," a new PBS series on...
How fast is dolphin sperm? This question is addressed in a new episode of āSex in the Wild,ā a multipart PBS documentary that aired on Aug. 6. The episode on dolphins and whales features UC San Diego...
View ArticleCybersecurity experts call for better automotive cyber safety, echoing Jacobs...
A group of cybersecurity experts has announced a Five Start Automotive Cyber Safety Program at the annual Defcon conference in Las Vegas this week to prevent cars from being hacked, a threat that was...
View ArticleComputer scientists in the spotlight on the Torrey Pines Mesa
Several Jacobs School computer scientists and their work are highlighted in a UT San Diego story about the history of the scientific institutions on the Torrey Pines Mesa.Under the major science...
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Lead architect of IBM's 1 million neuron neuromorphic chip is a Jacobs School...
Huge congratulations to Jacobs School alumnus Dharmendra Modha, the principal investigator on the DARPA SyNAPSE project, which announced last week that it had built a one-million-cores neuromorphic...
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Deciphering CSE's Upcoming Presence at Crypto 2014
CSE professors Mihir Bellare and Daniele Micciancio will be in Santa Barbara August 17-21 for the 34th International Cryptology Conference at UC Santa Barbara. The conference is sponsored by the...
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CSE-Related Research and Researchers Dominate USENIX Security Forum
Here's an alert to graduate students in CSE who want to attend the 23rd annual USENIX Security Symposium that will take place August 20-22 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego. The conference has...
View ArticleDon't drink and drone: Jacobs School alumns launch Kickstarter to create...
"Don't drink and drone!" That's the advice in this fun video produced by SparkAerial, a start-up co-founded by Jacobs School computer science alums Radley Angelo, Kurt Selander and Austin Hill. The...
View ArticleGet your sweat-powered battery here
Professor Joe Wang is heating up the airwaves and Internet with news of a tattoo "biobattery" that generates energy from sweat. Wenzhao Jia, a postdoctoral researcher in the Wang laboratory, presented...
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Transfer students get help to prepare for the Jacobs School
"You definitely don't want to have three finals on the same day," one student told an audience of 23 incoming transfer students gathered in the Qualcomm Conference Center in Jacobs Hall Thursday...
View ArticleResearchers find security flaws in backscatter X-ray scanners
A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University have discovered several security vulnerabilities in full-body backscatter...
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Center for Extreme Events Research at UC San Diego / website launch
The Center for Extreme Events ResearchĀ at the Jacobs School of Engineering is focused on advancing the engineering research essential to protect critical infrastructure and bio-systems from extreme...
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Computer science teaching professor featured in Labor Day news story
Congratulations to computer science teaching professor Mia Minnes, who is featured in the Labor Day issue of UT San Diego!Minnes was hired this year after serving as a postdoctoral visiting assistant...
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US Small Business Administration Funds Program to Support Female STEM...
Administrator of the US Small Business Administration Maria Contreras-Sweet and UC San Diego computer science PhD Sarah EsperĀ are pictured below. The photo was taken last week at a campus event...
View ArticleRobot survives flames, being run over by a car
Michael Tolley, the Havard postdoc who is set to join the Jacobs School faculty in November, strikes again. Last month, Tolley was part of a team that created origami robots capable of folding onto...
View ArticleAlum launches Kickstarter for new and improved GoPro mount
A Jacobs School alum has launched a Kickstarter for a GoPro mount for bikes, canoes, and more. Yohei Yamamuro graduated with a bachelor's in mechanical engineering in the mid-1990s before earning an...
View ArticleStructural engineers use drones to investigate damage from Napa Valley...
After the 6.0 Napa Valley earthquake struck in the early morning on Aug. 24, structural engineering professor Falko Kuester took a team of his students, and their drones, to investigate the damage....
View ArticleKrstic Wins Chestnut Textbook Prize
Miroslav Krstic, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and associate vice chancellor for research at UC San Diego, has received the triennial Chestnut Textbook Prize awarded by the...
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Q&A with Chemical Engineering Alumna Emma Wong
Alumna Emma Wong was featured last month in a blog post from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. One of the questions is excerpted below. Check out the original blog post for the full Q&A....
View ArticleThis soft rubber robot is propelled by controlled explosions
And Mike Tolley, soon to be a professor of mechanical engineering here at the Jacobs School, does it again. This time, he presented a soft robot that uses controlled explosions to jump at the IROS 2014...
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