Emily Cerf 
The recently launched Generative AI Center at UC Santa Cruz, based at both the main campus and at the UCSC Silicon Valley campus in Santa Clara, is bringing together university researchers and industry partners for collaboration, innovation, and impact at the cutting edge of the field. The Center welcomes new industry partners to expand their … Read more
The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz co-organized this year’s Bay Learn Symposium, an annual event gathering engineers and scientists in machine learning from the San Francisco Bay Area. The event format centered around sharing cutting edge research and ideas, and included lively panel and group discussions about present and future ML and … Read more
From September 8-10, the Baskin School of Engineering hosted the 19th Conference on Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2025), the longest-standing gathering for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in neurosymbolic AI. The event brought together more than 90 people to discuss the future of a field that aims to build powerful computational AI … Read more
More than 100 faculty, graduate students, and research staff from the Biomolecular Engineering (BME) department at the Baskin School of Engineering gathered to present their work at a research retreat on Friday, March 21. At the one-day retreat, BME researchers came together to present their research in the form of talks and posters, giving them … Read more
Jessica Dagostini, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering, was awarded the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) Computational and Data Science fellowship. Dagostini is one of two recipients of this prestigious fellowship, which is highly competitive and awarded after a rigorous merit review. It is intended … Read more
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics Marc Mangel has devoted much of his research career to understanding biological challenges, particularly species conservation and fisheries management, through mathematics. Now, the prestigious Society for Mathematical Biology has recognized Mangel’s contributions to this field by selecting him as a Fellow. Read on for a brief Q&A about Mangel’s … Read more
Anuj Kumar, who completed his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in June 2023 with Professor Pascale Garaud and is currently the Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, was awarded the Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Mechanics of the American Physical Society.
Nicholas Rondoni, a Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, won the Best Poster award at the Northern and Central California section meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Rondoni’s research focuses on the accurate inference of neuronal spiking activity — the electrical activity within the brain that neurons use … Read more
This summer, an inaugural cohort of 34 community college students participated in a unique program focused on data science and AI education at UC Santa Cruz.
The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz has hired Lynell Spencer to lead the Office of Student Success, expanding efforts to close equity gaps and promote a thriving engineering community. Baskin Engineering, as a high-performing professional school within the fast-paced environment of a research one university, has a wide range of opportunities for … Read more
Sri Kurniawan, professor of Computational Media who serves many mentorship and leadership roles across UC Santa Cruz, has been appointed the Baskin School of Engineering’s next Associate Dean for Research. In this role, which begins July 1, 2024, Kurniawan will support the highly impactful research of faculty across the six engineering departments. Kurniawan plans to … Read more
Professor of Applied Mathematics Daniele Venturi is part of a project team recently awarded a five-year, $7.5 million from the Department of Defense’s (DoD) highly competitive Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program. The project seeks to develop a new mathematical framework for the modeling and simulation of high-dimensional partial differential equations, which are relevant to … Read more