2025 awards and accolades
An ongoing list of fall 2025 accolades and research awards given to Baskin Engineering faculty, students, and staff.
Computer Science and Engineering
Salma Qadiri: Undergraduate Student
Salma Qadiri is a third year UC Santa Cruz computer science student, minoring in applied mathematics. She gained support and resources at Baskin Engineering through the MESA Engineering Program and found community with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).
Students champion equitable research in genomics and cybersecurity with Fellowship for Anti-Racism Research (FARR)
Two UC Santa Cruz engineering graduate students are pursuing anti-racist research with the support of the Baskin Engineering Fellowship for Anti-Racism Research (FARR). Established in 2021, FARR supports two graduate students each summer with $6,000 in funding to advance research focused on combating racism and bias in technology and engineering.
Computer Engineering Ph.D. student wins prestigious high performance computing fellowship
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
Baskin Engineering postdoc receives the 2024 GitHub Empowering Educator Award
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.
Katia Avila Pinedo: Undergraduate Student
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.
New faculty join Baskin Engineering with expertise in AI, sustainability, health engineering, and more
The Baskin School of Engineering welcomes a cohort of 12 new faculty members to the 2024-25 academic year.
New QB3 Biotech Undergraduate Summer Internships program connects students with hands-on work experience
This summer, QB3 at UC Santa Cruz launched the QB3 Biotech Undergraduate Summer Internships program, designed to give students work experience in the biotechnology field.
Emily Lovell: Postdoctoral Fellow
Double UC Santa Cruz alumna Emily Lovell joined Baskin Engineering’s Computer Science and Engineering Department in 2022 as a postdoctoral fellow. Lovell focuses on open source software contribution and teaching open source as a way to support broader participation in computing.
Summer program brings data science and AI education to community college students
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.
!!Con tech conference celebrates the joy, excitement, and surprise of computing
For the third time, Baskin Engineering professor Lindsey Kuper co-hosted the !!Con (pronounced “bang bang con”) tech conference at UC Santa Cruz, bringing together 200+ attendees to celebrate the joys and surprises of computing.
Baskin Engineering students take home awards at SC Launchpad 2024 in areas of social impact, climate action, biotech and more
The Santa Cruz (SC) Launchpad event on May 29, 2024 was an exciting opportunity for UC Santa Cruz students to compete in a business plan competition for $40,000 in cash prizes. Notably, Baskin Engineering students or alumni were on each of the winning teams.