Qingyuan Cao is a fourth year robotics engineering student who is passionate about aerospace engineering. After joining the UC Santa Cruz Rocket Team in 2021, Cao has played a crucial role in the club’s success.
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
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. Drawn to Baskin Engineering for its proximity to Silicon Valley and focus on innovation for social good, Bose’s research applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to optimize power grids.
Double UC Santa Cruz alumna and Baskin Engineering postdoctoral fellow Emily Lovell, was awarded the 2024 GitHub Empowering Educator Award for her efforts to support computer science students and foster an inclusive computing community at UCSC.
The UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering hosted the inaugural meeting of the NSF PLUS Alliance Western Regional Hub at the 2024 Society for Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference in Phoenix, Arizona. This gathering brought together representatives from 13 institutions—spanning research labs, community colleges, and four-year universities—all committed to … Read more
Across the country, many states have begun to restrict the ability of their colleges and universities to mount programming meant to support access, inclusion, and diversity efforts. We can expect this trend to continue.
Katia Avila Pinedo is in her final year pursuing a bachelors in networks and digital technology at UC Santa Cruz. As a dedicated member of the Baskin Engineering community, Pinedo has actively engaged in initiatives supporting underrepresented students in engineering. She is passionate about education and mentorship, and hopes to continue inspiring students in rural, low-income school districts to pursue pathways in STEM.
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
The Baskin School of Engineering held their first in-person Fall Orientation on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, hosting 1,300 newly admitted first-year and transfer students.
The Baskin School of Engineering welcomes a cohort of 12 new faculty members to the 2024-25 academic year.