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Q-MEEN-C's Jon Schuller awarded a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator Award




Q-MEEN-C PI Jon Schuller (UCSB) has been awarded a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator Award to investigate Nonlinear Magnetic Dipole Light-Matter Interactions. The award provides $1.25M dollars over five years with the goal of "accelerating progress on advancing the frontier of fundamental research in experimental physics by supporting brilliant mid-career scientists.



Posted 9.16.2024

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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





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Q-MEEN-C's Axel Hoffmann awarded Humboldt Research Award


Founder Professor Axel Hoffmann is pictured with a statue of Alexander von Humboldt, the scientist the Humboldt Research Award is named after. The statue is located in La Orotava, Tenerife, Spain.

A Founder Professor in The Grainger College of Engineering’s Materials Science and Engineering Department, Hoffmann recently earned the Humboldt Research Award from The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation recognized him with a €60,000 financial prize due to his new research direction involving antiferromagnetic spintronics, currently a hot topic in materials science.



Posted 7.22.2024

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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





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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

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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

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



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

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Q-MEEN-C's Duygu Kuzum Appointed Chancellor's Endowed Faculty Fellowship


Inaugural holder of the Joan and Irwin Jacobs-Kavli Foundation Chancellor's Endowed Faculty Fellowship for Engineering the Brain and the Mind.


Duygu has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Joan and Irwin Jacobs-Kavli Foundation Chancellor's Endowed Faculty Fellowship for Engineering the Brain and the Mind. This Chancellor's Endowed Faculty Fellowship aims to recognize a distinguished faculty at the Assistant and Associate level who has been making significant contributions in Engineering in alignment with the goals of the Kavli Institute for the Brain and Mind at UC San Diego. Duygu's appointment is a direct reflection of the high regard in which her work in this area is held by the academic community, both within UC San Diego and the outside world.



Posted 10.03.2023





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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





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Alex Frañó wins the Diversity Inclusion Award from the Forum for Early Career Scientists of the American Physical Society.


For his efforts to increase diversity in his department and across physics as a discipline


The Forum for Early Career Scientists (FECS) of the American Physical Society (APS) awards efforts from physicists to increase equity and diversity efforts across the nation.



Posted 2.23.2022

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Q-MEEN-C's Vitaliy Lomakin named an IEEE Fellow


Citation: "for contributions to theoretical and computational electromagnetics"


IEEE Fellow is a distinction conferred by the Board of Directors upon select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership.



Posted 12.15.2021





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Q-MEEN-C's Mark Stiles named an IEEE Fellow


Citation: "for contributions to spintronics devices and data storage"


IEEE Fellow is a distinction conferred by the Board of Directors upon select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership. Listen to Stiles' invited podcast in which he shares his insights on the IEEE Magnetics Society's work as it relates to neuroscience and brain-inspired computing technologies. He also offers his advice to students and young professionals who might be interested in relevant technologies fields.



Posted 12.15.2021

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Q-MEEN-C's Andrew Kent named an IEEE Fellow


Citation: "for contributions to the application of spin-transfer torques in nano-scale devices"


IEEE Fellow is a distinction conferred by the Board of Directors upon select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership.



Posted 11.23.2021





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Q-MEEN-C's Axel Hoffmann receives American Physical Society’s 2022 David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics


Citation: "For pioneering work, engaging lectures, and comprehensive reviews advancing the understanding of spin transport and magnetization dynamics in magnetic multilayers."




Posted 10.28.2021

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Alex Frañó named a 2021 Cottrell Scholar





Alex Frañó's award-winning project is entitled "Creating Artificial Angstrom-scale Periodic Potentials using X-ray Standing Waves and Enhancing Creativity in Physics Education"



Posted 02.09.2021

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Axel Hoffmann named to the 2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list


The list recognizes leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world. It is based on an analysis of journal article publication and citation data, an objective measure of a researcher’s influence, from 2009-2019.


Hoffmann is a Founder Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in materials science and engineering and a member of the Materials Research Laboratory. His research focuses on topics related to magnetism, such as spin transport, magnetization dynamics and biomedical applications. His work on spin Hall effects has contributed to the development of spintronics, electronic devices that harness electron spin for faster and more efficient computing. Hoffmann is a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.



Posted 11.18.2020

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Marcelo Rozenberg honored with the 2018 Prix Emilie Du Châtelet of the La Société Française de Physique


The French Physical Society awards the Emilie Du Châtelet Prize to a physicist or team of researchers for excellence in Physics.


Marcelo Rozenberg, Argentinian, is a condensed matter physicist, internationally recognized for his pioneering activity in the treatment of the effects of electronic correlations, in particular in the Mott transition. Marcelo Rozenberg realized the importance of resistive memories, based on changes in electrical resistance in oxides, induced by current pulses. The international notoriety of Marcelo Rozenberg translates into recurring invitations to Japan (AIST of Tsukuba and University of Tokyo) in California (UC San Diego) in India (IISC Bangalore) and of course in Argentina. It also manifests itself with articles of exceptional audience, in particular the one published in "Rev Mod Phys" cited more than 5000 times since 1996.

The jury of the Grands Prix de la SFP is pleased to award him the Prix Emilie du Châtelet 2018.



Posted 09.17.2019

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