Q-MEEN-C holds annual 2024 All-Hands Meeting

The collaborative event was held in UCSD's Mayer Hall from July 18 to 19.

Funded by the DOE's Basic Energy Sciences (BES) program, Q-MEEN-C strives to excel in the field of energy-efficient materials and we are thrilled to share the success of our EFRC’s 2024 Annual All-Hands Meeting, which brought together physicists from across the United States for two days of inspiring discussions and groundbreaking ideas. The event was a hub of innovation, with attendees exchanging insights and forging collaborations that promise to shape the future of our field. The meeting not only highlighted the remarkable work being done but also set the stage for continued partnership and discovery in the years ahead.

Posted 7.22.2024

2024 Von-Neumann Awards

Presented at Q-MEEN-C's All-Hands Meeting on July 18 to 19 and the recognitions went as follows:

Award 1: Von-Neumann Distinguished Collaborative Research Award, for developing innovative synaptic arrays with hydrogenated oxides. Recipients: Ravindra Bisht, Jaeseoung Park, Ivan Zaluzhnyy.
Award 2: Von-Neumann Distinguished Collaborative Research Award, for developing a microscopic understanding of resistive switching of neuromorphic devices. Recipients: Alexandre Pofelski, Elliot Kisiel, Erbin Qiu, Lorenzo Fratino.
Award 3: Von-Neumann Distinguished Collaborative Research Award, for motivating new quantum materials for neuromorphic functionalities. Recipients: Shenli Zhang, I-Ting Chiu.
Award 4: Von-Neumann Distinguished Leadership Award, for organizing the bi-weekly tutorials on neuromorphic computing. Recipients: Sarmistha Das, Kate Matthews, Henry Navarro.
Award 5: Von-Neumann Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2024. Recipient: Nika Bondar.

Posted 7.22.2024

Giulia Galli named as finalists for 2024 Falling Walls Prize

Q-MEEN-C PI Giulia Galli has been nominated as a finalists for the prestigious Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year award by the University of Chicago Department of Chemistry.

The award recognizes contributions to the fields of chemistry and computational materials science. Galli's innovative research in predicting material properties with quantum mechanical puts her as a leading figure in her field.

Posted 6.14.2024

Dr. Yohannes Abate receives Q-MEEN-C's von Neumann Award

Dr. Yohannes Abate, MD Professor of Physics at the University of Georgia and Founding Director of the Quantum Science and Engineering Program, traveled to UCSD Physics to receive the Q-MEEN-C sponsored von Neumann award in recognition of his work on locally measuring the electronic properties of neuromorphic quantum materials.

Posted 5.23.2024

Q-MEEN-C's Eric Fullerton Elected Fellows of National Academy of Inventors

Eric Fullerton, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering among 162 new Fellows announced by the NAI on December 12th, honoring innovative academic inventors whose work has made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society. Election as an NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors like Eric, who is a leader in the field of data storage and memory technologies, also serving as the Director of the UCSD Center for Memory and Recording Research (CMRR).

Posted 12.14.2023

Q-MEEN-C Poem Wins People's Choice Award

"A Quest Profound" Winner of the People's Choice Award at the Energy Frontier's 2023 Poetry of Science Art Contest II.

A modern poem with three stanzas of coupled rhymes (AABB). A humorous introductory quatrain about the current tech scene, followed by an octet describing the process of energy-efficiency using quantum material in new computers that mimic the human brain, and a concluding limerick to sum up the mission of the Energy Frontiers Research Cener.

Congratulations to the authors Alex Frañó, Mario Rojas, and Jon Schuller!

Posted 9.18.2023

Julie Grollier receives the Burbidge Award

A leading pioneer in neuromorphic computing, working at France's CNRS, Thales, and Paris-Saclay.

Julie is visiting UCSD this where she was honored with the Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professorship Award this summer. She visit will help build on the collaborations forged by Q-MEEN-C. Here she imparts a lecture on equilibrium propagation, a new idea to make neural networks more efficient.

Posted 7.25.2023

Q-MEEN-C 2 Launched in Ceremony of Funding Renewal

Q-MEEN-C 2 is officially launched in a ceremony of renewed funding that featured distinguished guests such as California's 52nd Congressional District Representative Scott Peters and UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla who honored attendees with their words after a comprehensive introduction by Director Ivan K. Schuller, reminding us of the center's importance in present and future science:

"During the semiconductor revolution, materials science helped developers identify silicon and germanium as ideal materials. It is the same now, where we see quantum materials as the key to increasing computational power while also decreasing local energy consumption."

Posted 9.3.2022

Ben Erbin Qiu awarded with double prizes for Excellence and Equity

Ben Erbin QIU, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the 2023 Schultz Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research from the Center for Memory and Recording Research! He was selected for exceptional contributions in the field of stochastic oscillators, an important area relevant to Neuromorphic Computing, straddling the boundaries between physics, electrical and computer engineering, and materials engineering. Qiu is co-supervised by Professors Ivan Schuller and Eric Fullerton.
Qiu was also selected as a 2023 Jacobs School Racial Equity Fellow, among a group of six fellows consisting of three undergraduates and three graduates, contributing towards creating and implementing programs to achieve increased diversity and equity. As a first-generation college student and the sole representative from a secluded village, Qiu has a fervent interest in narrowing the information gap that hampers the educational and career growth of underrepresented and underprivileged students.

Posted 12.18.2023

UCSD Researchers Receive DOE Funding to Continue Exploring Quantum Materials

The first generation of computers used vacuum tubes. The second, transistors and the third, integrated circuits. Each new generation allowed computers to be faster, smaller and more energy efficient. Now, as the world stretches beyond the limits of integrated circuits, what does the fourth generation of computing look like.

Reviewed by Laura Thomson for AZO Quantum

Posted 3.19.2023