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UC Irvine students, grads fight back after hackers post gruesome images in cyberattack
A group of current and former University of California, Irvine students managed to fight back a group of hackers after they were targeted in a vicious and gruesome cyberattack, according to one graduate involved. … Alina Kim, a UCI computer science and engineering graduate, put her computer science and software engineering degrees to good use as she teamed together with other users to stop the hack. "If we banned an account in one server, it would ban them universally on all of our servers," said Kim.
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UCI researchers create human cells with the transparency of a squid
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have made a breakthrough with a bio-inspired research project that they say is the first step towards intrinsically translucent tissue. The team was inspired by octopuses, squids, and other sea creatures that can disappear by using specialized tissues in the body to manipulate the transmission and reflection of light. The scientists have been able to engineer human cells that have similar transparent abilities.
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UCI Celebrates Innovation Excellence: Two Researchers Named Fellows By The National Academy Of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors has named two University of California, Irvine researchers as fellows. Guann-Pyng (G.P.) Li, a pioneer in the development of microelectronics for advanced health and sustainable energy applications, and David Reinkensmeyer, who combines robotics and neuroscience to create devices to help people with movement rehabilitation after neurological injury, are among 162 academic inventors made fellows by the NAI this year.
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UC grad students drive innovation, merit state aid
On Wednesday, I’m taking a break my from chemical engineering research to join other UC graduate students in Sacramento. Our message to lawmakers: Graduate students are the engines that drive California innovation – think Tesla, but a whole lot cheaper.
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Undergraduate Financial Support
Engineering students have the opportunity to apply for various scholarships available in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and at UC Irvine. These scholarships are awarded based on academic performance, or a combination of academics, community service, financial need and work experience. Scholarship applications may be obtained through the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships. Selection is made by of the Undergraduate Scholarship Committee and recipients are announced in late spring.
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UCI researchers hacked solar inverters using just $50 worth of equipment
Cyber-physical systems security researchers at the University of California, Irvine can disrupt the functioning of a power grid using about $50 worth of equipment tucked inside a disposable coffee cup. In a presentation delivered at the recent Usenix Security 2020 conference, Mohammad Al Faruque, UCI associate professor of electrical engineering & computer science, and his team revealed that the spoofing mechanism can generate a 32 percent change in output voltage, a 200 percent increase in low-frequency harmonics power and a 250 percent boost in real power from a solar inverter.
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UC Irvine analysis finds renewable hydrogen sector could reach price parity with conventional fuel by mid- to late 2020s
The California Energy Commission has released a UC Irvine roadmap for the buildout and deployment of renewable hydrogen production plants in California to support policy decisions and inform stakeholders. The study concludes that, with appropriate policy support, the renewable hydrogen sector can reach self-sustainability (price point at parity with conventional fuel on a fuel-economy adjusted basis) by the mid- to late-2020s.
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UCI professor sets drone flight record
UC Irvine professor of electrical engineering and computer science Peter Burke has broken a Guinness World Record – for flying a drone halfway around the world. Burke and his team used cloud computing and the internet to fly the drone 11,440 miles, from Irvine to the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Read More
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UC Irvine-Led Team Reveals Battery-Like Functions Of Mitochondria In Groundbreaking Discovery
“When we first started studying isolated mitochondria, we knew they behaved like a battery based on some work from the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology and UCLA, but we could not control them very well inside the cell to probe them,” said co-author Peter Burke, UCI professor of electrical engineering and computer science.