Newsletter
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Fellowship recipient Shourya Bose is applying machine learning and AI to optimize power grids
Shourya Bose is completing his last year as an electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student and is one of three recipients of the Dissertation-year Fellowship.
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Kaleen Shrestha: ethical data science in the era of AI
Kaleen Shrestha is a member of the inaugural class of Baskin Engineering’s new M.S. in Natural Language Processing (NLP) program. She is also an undergraduate alumna of UC Santa Cruz, where she majored in computer science.
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Expanding interdisciplinary research: Anuj Kumar reflects on his Ph.D.
Anuj Kumar was a member of Baskin Engineering’s 25th graduating class, earning a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in June 2023. During his time at UC Santa Cruz, he worked under the guidance of Professor Pascale Garaud conducting research in…
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Quadruple UCSC alumnus Alec Dektor makes computational breakthrough
Alec Dektor is a quadruple UC Santa Cruz alumnus (B.A. math; M.A. math; M.S. scientific computing and applied mathematics; Ph.D. applied mathematics). During his time at Baskin Engineering, he published six papers—four as first author.
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How Haofan Cai became a trailblazing faculty member in the U.S.
Haofan Cai is a class of 2023 graduate, who completed her Ph.D. in computer science and engineering. Before coming to UC Santa Cruz, she completed her undergraduate degree program at Southern University of Science and Technology, a small university…
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Investigating bias in technology through Baskin Engineering’s anti-racism research fellowship
Graduate students Roman Reggiardo and Milad Hakimshafaei are the latest fellows carrying out individual projects to research tools and techniques that will combat discrimination and racism in technology and engineering.
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Why Selin Ovali wants to develop technology with a social and educational focus
Selin Ovali joined the inaugural class of the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) professional master’s degree program after completing her studies in computer science at Purdue University. Ovali is assisting the UC Santa Cruz Social Emotional Technology Lab (SETLab), directed…
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From philosophy to designing accessible technology: Justin Grant
Justin Grant is a member of the inaugural class of the Human Computer Interaction professional master’s degree program. He brings to the graduate program years of web development and leadership experience and a passion for building ethical and accessible technology.
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Harika Dechiraju is designing bioelectronic devices for real-world applications
Harika Dechiraju’s interest in using electronic devices for biomedical applications led her to pursue a doctoral program in electrical and computer engineering at Baskin Engineering. Since 2017, Dechiraju has been a part of Professor Marco Rolandi’s research group.
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Two Baskin Engineering graduate students awarded inaugural Fellowship for Anti-Racism Research
Two doctoral students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering — Yatong Chen and Carlos Isaac Espinosa Ramirez — are the first ever recipients of the Baskin School of Engineering Fellowship for Anti-Racism Research (FARR).
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Brenda Betancourt on finding community and support as a graduate student
Brenda Betancourt graduated with her Ph.D. in applied mathematics and statistics. Her research at UC Santa Cruz was focused on models for network data using Bayesian statistics.
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A new paradigm by Riadul Islam and team receives a U.S. patent
Riadul Islam graduated from Baskin Engineering with a Ph.D. in computer engineering. His work focused on designer commission of VLSI and specifically on clock distribution network design.
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