Vahdat, an assistant professor in the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) Department of Bioengineering, received the honor at the 26th annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, held Aug. 22-23 at UC Santa Cruz. The award recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement among early-career UC bioengineering faculty.
Nearly two decades before the approval of a daily oral GLP-1 pill for weight management, UC Riverside bioengineering professor Jiayu Liao contributed to research demonstrating that a nonpeptide molecule could activate the GLP-1 receptor and produce biological effects in animals.
UC Riverside Associate Professor of Bioengineering Jia Guo has developed a new way to reconstruct magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that could improve the reliability of blood flow measurements when MRI signals are extremely weak.
A method for recovering information about light that conventional cameras cannot record placed UC Riverside researchers among the 10 Best Paper Award nominees at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), one of the field’s premier venues. The paper was part of a broader showing by researchers from UCR’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of...
Arctic sea ice may look like a continuous frozen surface from a distance. Up close, much of it is a shifting collection of individual slabs called floes, pushed by winds and ocean currents and repeatedly colliding with one another.
Satellite imagery and soil databases can help farmers and researchers understand conditions across agricultural land, but working with those datasets often requires specialized software, computing resources, and technical expertise. A team led by UC Riverside researchers built FutureFarmNow to make that information easier to access and use.
Long before the University of California, Riverside (UCR) had a college of engineering, Sam Konyn ’79 was studying mathematics and exploring the emerging field of computer science. Nearly five decades later, he is helping future engineering students find their own paths at UCR.
Jacob Waitkus, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in UC Riverside’s Chemical and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. program, has received a $120,000 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Predoctoral Fellowship to support his research on rapid detection methods for antimicrobial resistance. The two-year award supports Waitkus’ project, “Development of Novel Nanopillar Metasurfaces for the Detection of Antimicrobial...
The UCR team addressed that challenge by integrating a wheeled mobile robot, an electromagnetic induction sensor, onboard localization and a planning algorithm designed for orchard-scale operation. The system allows the robot to navigate orchard rows, prioritize important sampling locations and collect dense soil data within a fixed operating window.
UC Riverside alumnus Charlie Gay received the 2026 Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contributions to the global growth of renewable energy. After earning his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from University of California, Riverside, Gay helped advance solar technology through leadership roles...
Chen’s research program focuses on developing bioengineering and biosensing approaches for food safety, environmental monitoring, and clinical diagnostics, with a particular interest in CRISPR-Cas protein engineering. The new USDA-funded project builds on that work by applying molecular detection tools to a major food-safety challenge.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, are advancing what researchers describe as the first continuously ventilated, structurally representative three-dimensional human lung model informed by both organ- and tissue-level experimental data. Led by Professor Mona Eskandari and trainees in UCR’s bioMechanics Experimental and Computational Health (bMECH) Laboratory, the research was highlighted at the 2025 SIMULIA...
Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, co-authored the paper with Paul R. Sanberg, president of the National Academy of Inventors. The work grew out of Ozkan’s role as a 2025 NAI Invention Ambassador, a leadership position focused on collaboration, translational research, and inventor...
A new collaborative research project led by UC Riverside bioengineering professor Jiayu Liao has received a $100,000 award from the City of Hope-UC Riverside Biomedical Research Initiative (CUBRI-UCR) to advance a promising approach for discovering next-generation therapies for cancer and other diseases.
Four UC Riverside students and alumni have earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, one of the nation’s most competitive honors for emerging researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
UCR earned five awards at this year’s regatta, including third place overall in the Cup Championship, which combines scores from races, technical evaluations, sustainability metrics, design categories, and team participation.
Dr. Qian Zhang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside, studies the software layers where those failures occur. Her work recently earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, one of the agency’s highest honors for early-career faculty.
Over three days, participants stepped into the role of future faculty, presenting research, engaging with academic leaders, and navigating the complexities of the faculty hiring process.
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside, in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have confirmed a recently identified form of magnetism known as altermagnetism in hematite, a common iron oxide better known as rust.
On Feb. 21, the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) at UC Riverside hosted its third annual IGNITE Student Professional Conference. For many of the more than 140 students who attended, it marked the first time they had sat across from a working engineer and had a candid conversation about what their future...
