The UC Davis team was the top award winner at the 2024-25 CITRIS Aviation Prize competition, earning $12,000 for their innovative design of an intercampus air transportation system for UC students, faculty and staff.
Electrical and computer engineering professors lead an educational program at the University of California, Davis, rethinking STEM education from kindergarten to college through a focus on experiential learning and workforce development opportunities in semiconductor technologies, information systems and data science.
Alan Jenn, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis, discusses the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to rescind its landmark 2009 decision affirming greenhouse gases as a threat to public health and welfare, and its impact on electric vehicles.
As a new assistant professor of computer science at UC Davis, Yang Zhou will create healthier software ecosystems that manage communication between GPUs to enhance performance and lower costs in technologies like machine learning and AI.
Driven by a desire to cure diseases, Kevin Zhongchao Zhao joins UC Davis as a chemical engineering faculty member who aims to create targeted therapies for cancer by engineering virus-like nanoparticles.
A new Scientific Reports study by UC Davis Coffee Center researchers shows that coffee beans follow a universal color curve during roasting, offering significant implications for the coffee industry and how “light,” “medium” and “dark” roast levels could be more consistently defined.
Two teams of electrical and computer engineering students have received top honors for their work at hackathons during the 2025 Design Automation Conference, the leading global conference for chips to systems research.
Three early-career faculty members from UC Davis are part of three of the four multicampus research teams selected to receive a 2025 Seed Award from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute, or CITRIS.
In a world first, researchers have shown brain-computer interfaces for speech can also enable control of a computer cursor. The research is a significant step forward and points to a future where people with paralysis can gain a level of autonomy previously thought impossible.
The Vertical Flight Society takes off with a brand-new chapter at UC Davis. The new club, which integrates undergraduate and graduate students, explores the current technologies and possible advancements for vertical takeoff and landing aircraft like helicopters and drones.
