Congratulations to #BaskinEngineering Professor Colleen Josephson who has received the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research’s (FFAR) 2022 New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award. The $450K in funding will support Josephson's research in developing efficient, low-cost agricultural soil sensor systems that are powered by mud batteries – microbial fuel cells that harness the energy of bacteria in soil. https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/04/colleen-ffar-award.html

The new tRNA naming system and free, open source web server #BaskinEngineering Professor Todd Lowe & group created establishes a standardized system for identifying & naming tRNA fragments, increasing research productivity & the chance for new discoveries https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/04/lowe-trna-namer.html

Congratulations to #BaskinEngineering Assistant Professors Kate Ringland and Yuyin Zhou for winning UC Santa Cruz Hellman Fellowships. These awards support promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. 👏🏾👏🏻👏🏿https://academicaffairs.ucsc.edu/hellman/2023-awards.html

#BaskinEngineering Professor Dejan Milutinovic and researchers solve a 60-year-old game theory dilemma, known as the wall pursuit game. This discovery allows for better reasoning about behavior across a wide range of fields, including autonomous systems. https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/03/dejan-gametheory.html

Aerial vehicles play an important role in emergency operations. But when GPS is weak due to a rural environment or dense urban landscape, they can lose their way. #BaskinEngineering Professor Ricardo Sanfelice and his team of researchers have come up with a solution for this. They're designing an innovative Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) system that uses signals from nearby infrastructures when GPS is weak to safely track and direct aerial vehicles. https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/03/rsf-afrlproject.html

Check out the robotic dog and quadcopter drone #BaskinEngineering Professor Ricardo Sanfelice and Ph.D. students from his Hybrid Systems Lab developed and demonstrated at last weekend's 2023 Golden State Warriors STEAM Fest! 👏🏾👏🏿👏🏼

👏🏾 👏🏻 👏🏿 UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute research scientist Ann McCartney was awarded the National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) inaugural Staff Award for DEIA Innovation in the Genomics Workforce! #BaskinEngineering #UCSC

https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/02/mccartney-nhgri-award.html

Angela Brooks, #BaskinEngineering associate professor of biomolecular engineering, has received the Outstanding Research and Professional Mentor Award from the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). This award is given to a faculty member who “has a demonstrated record of encouraging historically underrepresented minority students or professionals to pursue advanced degrees in STEM." Congratulations Professor Brooks! https://engineering.ucsc.edu/news/angela-brooks-sacnas-mentor-award/

Consider novice and experts, how do they differ? What scaffolding can you build to close gaps?
#baskinengineering #zoeval #measurement4learning

🎉👏Congratulations to #BaskinEngineering Assistant Professor Tyler Sorensen for receiving an NSF CAREER award to support his research in developing the logical frameworks & mathematical models required to enable diverse processors to work together. https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/02/nsf-career-awards.html

👏🏾👏🏼👏🏿#BaskinEngineering Distinguished Professor Lise Getoor has been named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) honorary fellow "for distinguished contributions to machine learning, particularly for approaches that integrate structure and uncertainty.” Congratulations Professor Getoor! https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/01/aaas-2022.html

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👏 👏 #BaskinEngineering Professor Sesh Comandur will give the Invited International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) Lecture during the week of March 28, 2023. The ICDT is a prestigious conference on research in the foundations and theory of data management http://edbticdt2023.cs.uoi.gr/?contents=invited_ICDT_lecture.html

From visualizing wildfire impact through VR technology to transforming cacti into renewable energy, five student teams, funded by UC Santa Cruz CITRIS and the Institute of Social Transformation, are blending creativity with innovation to solve today's most pressing challenges. #BaskinEngineering

https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/01/tech-social-good.html

Happy Friday! It's nice to see our #BaskinEngineering students out and about in the much needed CA sunshine 🌞

#photo #photography #FollowFriday #friday #TGIF

🧬 A group of UCSC researchers, led by #BaskinEngineering Professor Benedict Paten, have produced the first-ever toolkit for RNA sequencing analysis using a ‘pantranscriptome,’ which combines a transcriptome and a pangenome—a reference that contains genetic material from a cohort of diverse individuals, rather than just a single linear strand.

Learn more: https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/01/paten-rnaseq.html

At the core of #BaskinEngineering computational media Ph.D. candidate Tiffany Thang’s work is a passion for helping others, particularly populations living with special needs and disabilities. She's currently developing two serious VR games in Professor Sri Kurniawan's ASSIST Lab and mentoring 15 students. Learn more about Tiffany and her impactful research at https://engineering.ucsc.edu/news/tiffany-thang-student-spotlight/

Excited for teaching to begin this quarter. New research projects, collaborations, possibilities.

#baskinengineering #ucsc #motivation

As we reflect back on an extraordinary year, we're highlighting some of the biggest #BaskinEngineering research news and achievements of 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIM8uJjnLM

Congratulations to #BaskinEngineering's Team Athena! They are one of nine teams chosen to compete in the Amazon Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 5, a global university competition that aims to advance conversational AI. 👏

Team Athena will develop a multimodal socialbot capable of engaging in open dialogue conversations with humans for a chance to win a $1M research grant. https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/nine-teams-selected-for-alexa-prize-socialbot-grand-challenge