Proud of our faculty, students, and the culture of excellence they've built. Go Gauchos! 💙💛 #UCSB

As Dean Umesh Mishra puts it: "These results affirm what we see every day at UC Santa Barbara: research that is not only prolific and impactful, but profoundly influential" 🗣️

Read more below👇🔗
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Across Engineering and Physical Sciences, our numbers are staggering:

Top 1%: #1 U.S. Public (#7 Worldwide)🥇
Top 10%: #1 U.S. Public (#11 Worldwide)🥇
Top 50%: #1 U.S. Public (#14 Worldwide)🥇

Consistency is our baseline. 🌊🔬

The CWTS Leiden Rankings measure how often research is cited by other scientists. In the "Top 1%" category (the most elite tier), UCSB ranks #3 in the U.S. overall, trailing only MIT and Harvard.📈✨

🏆UCSB ranked #1 public university in the US for scientific impact, and 3rd in universities overall!🎓

Congratulations to all of our researchers who are leading the global conversation.🌐🧵

@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

We’re excited to kick off this year’s REAL AI Seminar Series! 🤖✨

Thrilled to start with @fatihdinc.bsky.social , thanks for joining us to launch the series.

Dr. Fatih Dinc gave a wonderful talk on biological versus artificial neural networks 🤯 @ucsbece.bsky.social @geometric-intel.bsky.social

If you are passionate about shaping the next generation of global tech leaders and want to run a program at the intersection of world-class research and professional excellence, we want to hear from you!

We are looking for a visionary leader to serve as the inaugural Executive Director for this first-of-its-kind program @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social.

lnkd.in/gbe5fhHU

Designed for early/mid career tech professionals, METL bridges the gap btw deep technical expertise & strategic business leadership.

Fall 2026: Specialized tracks in Semiconductor Technology & Technology Management.
Fall 2027: Quantum Information & AI for Science and Technology.

Exciting News! 🎓✨

Our new online professional master’s program—the Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL)—is launching in Fall 2026:

We Are Hiring its Executive Director!

Join us in building the future of engineering @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social: lnkd.in/gbe5fhHU

Winter Quarter is here @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social but the classroom has changed.

How do we teach and learn when AI tools think & write faster?

GI Lab's PhD @abbybertics.bsky.social explores innovation vs academic integrity in a podcast #TheEconomist also featuring PI @ninamiolane.bsky.social 🎙️👇

Science Shouldn’t Rely on Corporate Software (opinion) We need to treat the software undergirding scientific research as a public good—and make investments accordingly.

The way forward is to invest in true open-source software and infrastructure.

Read our full oped w/ Annie K. Lamar @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social #publicvoices of TheOpEdProject:

insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

@geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social

🙌 To be sure, *some* companies are truly dedicated to open-source.

By generously sharing their resources, they have dramatically advanced science.

It's time universities do the same.

👩‍🔬 Science advances slowly, across decades.

Commercial tools, by contrast, advance quickly through mergers, pivots and quarterly earnings reports.

Tethering our infrastructure to private companies is like writing knowledge in disappearing ink.

🦾 If we continue to rent the foundations of our knowledge from private companies, we should not be surprised when the floor gives way beneath us.

💵 Without proper funding structures, essential research tools remain fragile, often maintained by overworked volunteers.

Universities must begin funding engineers at competitive salaries and recognizing software development as a legitimate form of scholarship.

👩‍💻 Universities are reluctant to fund software engineers at competitive salaries.

A skilled engineer can earn 5x more in industry than in academia, yet most grants deprioritize dedicated engineering roles.

🤔 Much of modern research rests on tools and platforms maintained not by universities or public institutions, but by corporations whose priorities can shift overnight.

Knowledge itself is being built on the shifting sand of corporate discretion.

Thanks @insidehighered.com for publishing our OpEd w Annie K. Lamar #publicvoices of The Oped Project @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social !

🤖Open source software & infra accelerates scientific discoveries by removing financial & technical barriers.

It's about time we start treating it as a public good👇

Huge thanks to S. Kushner L. Pereira
@adelemyers.bsky.social @louisacornelis.bsky.social L. Pritschet Sheila S. D. Martin de Blas H. Grotzinger I. Stelzer L. Chrastil K. Casaletto K. Jordan @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social
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Thanks @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social for highlighting our #TIMEBestInvention of the Year award!

tinyurl.com/4939bxu5

This strengthens our commitment to innovating for women's brain health with @ai-ucsb.bsky.social & @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social 🧠

HerBrain on TIME BEST INVENTIONS OF THE YEAR! I am grateful for the opportunity to work on this project and for many interesting conversations while presenting this work. Want to learn more about how pregnancy/menstruation changes the brain? See our poster⬇️, or public talk⬇️

Congrats to Sarah Kushner Luís F. Pereira @adelemyers.bsky.social @louisacornelis.bsky.social Laura Pritschet Sheila S. Daniel Martin de Blas Hannah Grotzinger Ina Stelzer Liz Chrastil Kaitlin Casaletto Kaya Jordan @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social 🧠

Thrilled to see HerBrain on #TIME Best Inventions of 2025!

It shows how the anatomy of the brain changes week-by-week through pregnancy and postpartum 🧠

@geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social !

Rumor has it Mother Nature might be the best AI engineer🌱💡

Come see why at Brass Bear Brewing, Nov 13 @ 6pm. With Dr. Fatih Dinc, we’ll dive into how brains, bots, and biology compute with intelligence

The second paper called "On the Approximation of the Riemannian Barycenter" uses the bounds from the above article to compute approximations of the Riemannian barycenter at very low computational cost!

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The first paper called "Bounds on the geodesic distances on the Stiefel manifold for a family of Riemannian metrics" studies the geometry of the Stiefel manifold to derive simple and insightful bounds on the computationally untractable geodesic distance.

sciencedirect.com/science/arti...