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People of ACM - Athina Markopoulou
Athina Markopoulou is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). She is also the director of UCI’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and of the Samueli School of Engineering’s e+Society Institute on AI (ProperAI).
Naomi Chesler: Researching How Female...
Naomi Chesler on why women display symptoms may be different than those of men when they have heart attacks
Two UCI Researchers Make Breakthroughs...
Using a kitchen microwave to synthesize battery materials and teaching a quantum computer to predict the behavior of materials are some of the key breakthroughs that two Ph.D. students at the UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering have made during their fellowship with the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) this past year. The UCI-LANL-SoCalHub Research Fellowship gives selected students who are working in areas of common interest with the national lab the opportunity to be mentored by a UCI professor and a LANL scientist.
New Summer Academy Immerses High School...
That week was the inaugural summer academy of M-SEA – the Self-Healing Ocean Infrastructure and Marine Science and Engineering Academy – a research and education program at the UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Ocean Institute and supported by the Nicholas Endowment.
UCI Engineering Students Develop Innovative...
From harvesting water from Hawaii’s mountain fog to sending swarms of autonomous drones across the ocean, two UC Irvine engineering students spent their summer developing innovative solutions to challenges facing their home state.
UC Irvine Researchers Awarded $3 Million...
Researchers from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2) at UC Irvine have been awarded $3 million in funding from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to lead a four-year research initiative to transform how the electrical grid harmonizes with privately owned energy assets, such as rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, batteries, and electric vehicles (EVs).
Iryna Zenyuk Wins International Society...
Iryna Zenyuk, UC Irvine professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has won the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry, an annual global award bestowed by the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) to researchers under the age of 40 for outstanding achievements in electrochemical energy science, storage and conversion.