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Electronic Circuits and Energy Systems

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Energy, Data Analytics and Optimization Lab (eDAOL)

The eDAOL conducts research in the areas of power system state estimation, robust and stochastic energy management, energy data analytics, and more.

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Energy Sustainability Policy and Natural resources (ESPN)

The ESPN lab conducts research in areas related to sustainable energy, transportation, and water management.

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jLab in Smart Sensing

The jLab researches wireless sensing and communications systems, with a focus on technology that furthers sustainable practices.

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Neuromorphic Computing Group

The goal of the UCSC Neuromorphic Computing Group is to understand the computational principles that underpin the brain, and use them to engineer more efficient systems that can adapt to ever-changing environments.

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Radiological Instrumentation Laboratory (RIL)

The RIL focuses on all things X-ray imaging with applications in medical imaging, bio sensors, crystallography, threat detection, and high energy physics and particle detection.

"Associated Faculty" title block
  • Shiva Abbaszadeh
  • Yihsu Chen
  • Keith Corzine
  • Jason Eshraghian
  • Colleen Josephson
  • Leila Parsa
  • Ken Pedrotti
  • Stephen Petersen
  • Yu Zhang

Photonics and Electronic Devices

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Applied Optics Group

The Applied Optics Group develops new, highly sensitive methods to study single particles with optical methods.

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Nanostructured Energy Conversion Technology and Research (NECTAR) Group

The NECTAR Group conducts basic and applied research in physical properties emerging from materials tailored at the length scale ranging from 10-9 m to 10-3 m.

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Radiological Instrumentation Laboratory (RIL)

The RIL focuses on all things X-ray imaging with applications in medical imaging, bio sensors, crystallography, threat detection, and high energy physics and particle detection.

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Rolandi Group in Bioelectronics

The Rolandi Group focuses on micro-, nano- bio-/bio-inspired materials with integration in bioelectronic/bioprotonic devices and translational applications.

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UCSC Nanoengineering Group

The UCSC Nanoengineering Group focuses on the development of photonic, electronic, and phononic technologies and metamaterials with applications to human health and sustainable energy.

"Associated Faculty" title block
  • Shiva Abbaszadeh
  • Colleen Josephson
  • Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi
  • Michael Oye
  • Marco Rolandi
  • Holger Schmidt
  • A. Ali Yanik

Robotics, Controls, and Cyber-Physical Systems

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The Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) 

The ASL specializes in guidance, navigation, control, path-planning, computer vision, and sensor fusion within the scope of autonomous systems.

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Energy, Data Analytics and Optimization Lab (eDAOL)

The eDAOL conducts research in the areas of power system state estimation, robust and stochastic energy management, energy data analytics, and more.

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Human Aware Robotic Exploration (H.A.R.E.) Lab 

The H.A.R.E. Lab’s mission is two prong: to study human-robot interaction (HRI) and to develop autonomous systems for use in support of manual applications such as labor-intensive work (notably agriculture) and in mitigating danger to emergency personnel in search and rescue operations.

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Hybrid Systems Lab (HSL)

The HSL focuses on the analysis of hybrid dynamical systems and the design of hybrid feedback control algorithms. HSL’s research approach is mainly theoretical with numerical validation via simulations.

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jLab in Smart Sensing

The jLab researches wireless sensing and communications systems, with a focus on technology that furthers sustainable practices.

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Robotics and Control Lab

The Robotics and Control Lab does multidisciplinary research primarily focused on probabilistic models, stochastic dynamics, and control with the aim of creating better robotic systems.

TML Lab

Tactile Manipulation Lab 

TML innovates robotic dexterous manipulation and locomotion by developing smart hardware, software, and models. Research focuses on how to bring robots into our everyday lives by enabling adaptive operation in/with unknown environments and objects.

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Teodorescu Lab

The Teodorescu Lab mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering applications to bio-molecular engineering, biomechanics, robotics, and assistive technology. 

"Associated Faculty" title block
  • Gabriel Elkaim
  • Colleen Josephson
  • Steve McGuire
  • Dejan Milutinovic
  • Tae Myung Huh
  • Ricardo Sanfelice
  • Mircea Teodorescu
  • Donald M Wiberg
  • Yu Zhang

Signals, Image Processing, and Communications

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Broadband Communications Research Group

The Broadband Communications Research Group studies and develops space-time code for wireless Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems

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Energy, Data Analytics and Optimization Lab (eDAOL)

The eDAOL conducts research in the areas of power system state estimation, robust and stochastic energy management, energy data analytics, and more.

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jLab in Smart Sensing

The jLab researches wireless sensing and communications systems, with a focus on technology that furthers sustainable practices.

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Radiological Instrumentation Laboratory (RIL)

The RIL focuses on all things X-ray imaging with applications in medical imaging, bio sensors, crystallography, threat detection, and high energy physics and particle detection.

"Associated Faculty" title block
  • Shiva Abbaszadeh
  • Farid Dowla
  • Colleen Josephson
  • Stephen Petersen
  • Zouheir Rezki
  • Hamid Sadjapour
  • Yu Zhang