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

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Exciting news from OCAQpi! Researchers @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social have advanced photonics with PZT-integrated SiN microcomb resonators. 🌟 Dive into this innovation: https://tinyurl.com/258gp9x4

So it’s real but it’s artificial therefore it’s fake so it’s a Real Fake Smart Seminar Series?

Love to see it from @fatihdinc.bsky.social 😼🐼

Looking forward to seeing future talks from @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbece.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

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/gbe5fhHUJoin

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.

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 🎙️👇

Flyer for the UCSB CRML Agentic AI Summit 2026. Friday, January 23, 2026. 8:00 AM in Henley Hall 1010. Keynote speakers: Sujith Ravi (VP GenAi, Oracle), Jiantao Jiao (Director AI, Nvidia), Murphy Niu (UCSB), Diyi Yang (Stanford), Daniel Martin (UCSB). Industry talks: Ang Li (CEO, Simular), Zackary Glazewski (Founding AI Engineer, ChipAgents), Eser Kandogan (Principal Research Engineer, Megagon Labs) AI faculty highlights: Eric Wang, Yuheng Bu, Michael Beyeler, James Preiss, Miguel Eckstein

Join us Jan 23 for the inaugural CRML Agentic AI Summit at @ucsb.bsky.social.

Researchers, industry, and students exploring how agentic AI drives discovery and real-world impact.

Free to attend, limited space: ml.ucsb.edu/events/summi...

#AgenticAI #ResponsibleAI #AIResearch

It's not Snell's law.
It's Snel's law.
And actually, it's really Sahl's law. labrigger.com/blog/2026/01...

What to do?
The simplest thing people can do is to stand on principle. Don’t compromise values thinking that will buy comfort. Those that hoped for that lost both. It’s actually more comfortable to stand on principle. More people want that. You’ve got good company.

Standardized measurements for monitoring and comparing multiphoton microscope systems - Nature Protocols A set of procedures is described here for standardizing the evaluation of multiphoton microscope performance, covering laser power, pulse width optimizations, field of view, resolution and photomultip...

Fortunately, there's a resource to improve benchmarking of multiphoton systems. So things can get better. Here's the paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... And here's the free PMC version PDF (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) (3/3)

The key issue is that the authors who try to make comparisons don't have access to all of the systems and can't make apples-to-apples comparisons. But they present an illusion of that, using anecdotes in place of rigorous comparisons. Which makes the comparisons wrong. (2/3)

Comparing multiphoton (2p/3p) imaging systems is often done poorly. labrigger.com/blog/2026/01... E.g., PSFs can be measured differently by different labs, staining quality is by far the biggest determinate on how multiphoton images will look at depth, and so forth. (1/3)

Old diseases return as settlement pushes into the Amazon rainforest The growing border between forested and urban areas is causing an alarming uptick human cases of yellow fever, a disease that had become rare in South America.

Researchers at UCSB have found an alarming uptick in diseases in the Amazon basin, which could be driven by the changes in land.

"These emerging infectious diseases are indicators of broader environmental issues."

Full story: https://ow.ly/XtJF50Y0oUe

Hot, humid conditions during pregnancy undermine child health much more than heat alone Humidity worsens the impacts of heat exposure during pregnancy, quadrupling its effect on child health. By focusing on temperature only, we may be underestimating the true impacts of extreme weather.

#UCSB researchers found that exposure to hot, humid conditions during pregnancy is more dangerous than high temperatures alone 🌡️

This heat stress can even induce premature labor.

Full story: https://ow.ly/ZHWq50XSff1

Moneyball 2.0!

Discover how @mathildepapillon.bsky.social 's research is transforming AI for sports with the LA Dodgers! ⚾️

#ProudAdvisor

@geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social

Exciting announcement ✨

Our work on brain-inspired AI computing, led by PhD student Boxun Xu and Prof. Peng Li, received ICCAD William J. McCalla Best Paper Award nominations in 2024 and 2025.

Joint work with Georgia Tech and USC!
#UCSB #ICCAD2024 #ICCAD2025 #EfficientAI

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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