Our computer scientists UC San Diego not only found a vulnerability in bikes' #wireless gear shifters, they also figured out how to patch it. The work was presented USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies this week. Excellent coverage by Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) WIRED

.UC San Diego averaged $5M of new research funding a day last year. The Jacobs School won roughly 1/3 of all research funding awarded to the campus: sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/08/15/uc-… grobbins in The San Diego Union-Tribune

Good news from UC San Diego Prof. Dr. Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez: As the costs of offshore wind & wave energy continue to decrease, these new sources of energy could reduce the total installed energy capacity required to reach zero-emission grids by 17%. More in Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congrats to UC San Diego bioengineering postdoctoral scholar Christopher Anderson, who received a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship! The fellowship encourages recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. More: ppfp.ucop.edu/info/fellowshi…

A security protocol for routers, switches & mobile roaming gear is vulnerable to attacks, says a team led by UC San Diego computer scientists: today.ucsd.edu/story/computer… #CyberSecurity UCSD CSE

As the number of tech gadgets capable of recording brain waves continues to grow, so do privacy concerns about how to protect this biological data. UC San Diego electrical engineering Profs. Farinaz Koushanfar and Duygu Kuzum weigh in via CNBC: cnbc.com/2024/08/17/new…

There is more to the story: The different timing & periodicity of marine energy makes it a double bonus: more clean energy & virtual storage! Thank you Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Jigar Shah for your support on this project @nature ERGBerkeley UCSD Engineering doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

A team led by UC Davis and including UC San Diego has launched an U.S. National Science Foundation-funded center focused on detecting emerging pandemic threats. They will develop tools to monitor infectious disease activity in natural hotspots to intercept these threats early. today.ucsd.edu/story/new-cent…

Remembering Alice Y. Wu ('12): brilliant engineer, compassionate mentor, champion for diversity in tech. Her legacy lives on through the Alice Y. Wu Memorial Scholarship, supporting CS students who blend innovation with social impact. Honor her vision at tinyurl.com/ym87stfy

Bioengineers at UC San Diego showed how deoxy-ATP can improve cardiac pumping in heart failure, thanks to the first multiscale computational model to simulate the therapeutic mechanisms of this drug candidate from the atomic level to the organ system scale: today.ucsd.edu/story/simulati…

Exciting news for RNA therapies: researchers developed new, simple ways to make RNA molecules last longer by shaping them into circles. This could mean more stable and effective RNA treatments, ranging from gene silencing to protein therapy. Prashant Mali today.ucsd.edu/story/closing-…

Green algae are lean, mean, drug-delivering machines. Researchers UC San Diego created microrobots from green algae fitted with drug-filled nanoparticles that swam through the lungs to deliver drugs to tumors. bit.ly/4cF5EzV

Join us Sept. 19 for our 9th annual Contextual Robotics Institute Forum! The theme is Embodied Intelligence, examining the confluence of AI and interaction with the physical world. Featuring roboticists from Agility Robotics, Embodied, Inc. and UC San Diego: cri.ucsd.edu/forum

Eight early-career faculty at UC San Diego received U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER awards so far in 2024, including 3 Jacobs School faculty! Congrats to Profs. Shabnam Semnani, Pengtao Xie and Yang Zheng, as well as UCSD CSE affiliate Babak Salimi, on this prestigious award! today.ucsd.edu/story/rising-u…

A new mechanism that triggers inflammation after heart attacks: work by UC San Diego researchers in nature: today.ucsd.edu/story/borderzo… UC San Diego Health UC San Diego Health Sciences UC San Diego Bioengineering #Cardiology #heartattack #inflammation

Take a peek at some of the impressive robotics work happening here! This robot and the research behind it are from the lab of electrical engineering Prof. Xiaolong Wang, in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ⬇️🤖

This sweat-powered finger wrap monitors your levels of glucose, lactate, vitamins & meds, all in the same sweat from which it derives its energy. "This is automatic health monitoring at your fingertips," says NANO UC San Diego postdoc Shichao Ding. Joe Wang today.ucsd.edu/story/finger-w…

California's energy grid tries to adapt as state moves to #renewables: KPBS News highlights DERConnect, a UC San Diego U.S. National Science Foundation funded testbed to better understand how to integrate renewable energy into the power grid: kpbs.org/news/science-t…

Zhaowei Liu of Zhaowei Liu Research Group @ UC San Diego at UCSD Engineering and #qualcomminstitute is building powerful new #microscopes to power discoveries in the biological sciences: qi.ucsd.edu/translating-li…

Listen to UC San Diego reseachers Mike Tolley and Claire Meaders talk about #StarWars and The Phantom Menace on StarWarsologies, recorded lived Fleet Science Center: skywalkingthroughneverland.com/star-warsologi… #robotics #Biology UCSD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering UCSD BioSciences