Dr. Werb and the BioEE Group have been selected as semi-finalists in the Impact Canada Drug Checking Technology Challenge. Read more about the challenge here.
Haowei and Somok present at CICC
Somok presented his work at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) on “A 107 μW MedRadio Injection-Locked Clock Multiplier with a CTAT-biased 126 ppm/°C Ring Oscillator.” Read more about it here.
Haowei also presented his work on a “A 2-in-1 Temperature and Humidity Sensor Achieving 62 fJ·K2 and 0.83 pJ·(%RH)2.” Read more about it here.

US News & World Report Rankings
The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering rose again in the US News graduate schools rankings. We are now ranked 6th among public engineering schools, and 11th overall. We are up one slot in both categories, compared to last year. UCSD’s research expenditures for FY18 are $188M, which is up 25% from four years ago. This year, we are #3 among public engineering schools for research expenditures per faculty member.
You can read the full press release, including specific program rankings, here.

IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Paper
Xiahan’s paper on a magnetoresistive biosensor front-end achieving sub-ppm resolution was accepted to the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Congratulations Xiahan!
Congratulations, Sandeep!
Sandeep successfully defended his MS thesis on “Magnetic Biosensors for the Detection of Proteases.”
Congratulations, Dr. Sun!
Alex successfully defended his thesis titled, “Point-of-Care and High-Density Array Electrochemical Biosensors” this afternoon. We celebrated his achievements with a “chip cake”! (If you are unfamiliar with this tradition, check out this video.)