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Hung Cao and Zhou Li

Hung Cao, Zhou Li Awarded PoP Grants

July 6, 2026

UC Irvine engineering faculty members Hung Cao and Zhou Li have received spring 2026 Proof of Product (PoP) grants from UCI Beall Applied Innovation. The PoP grants help provide significant funding for promising research projects in order to enhance their appeal to the industry and future investors.

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Anteater engineers gather at the Bren Event Center on June 15 to celebrate their commencement.

UC Irvine Engineering Class of 2026...

June 22, 2026

UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering hosted its commencement ceremony on June 15 at the Bren Events Center, which was packed with family and supporters ready to celebrate the recent graduates. The school expects to award 73 doctorates, 294 master's degrees and 934 bachelor's degrees for the 2026 academic year.

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Ph.D. graduate Jad Al Aaraj (right) demonstrates technology he created that enables people to opt out of visual tracking by public cameras.

UC Irvine Schools of Engineering and...

June 15, 2026

In a world where phones and smart glasses can capture anyone's image, students at the Engineering+ Society Institute on AI are creating ways to protect personal privacy. These inventions and the risks of AI were on display at an exhibit hosted by the Samueli School of Engineering and Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine.

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Faculty Honored at Spring Awards

Engineering Faculty Honored at Spring...

June 5, 2026

UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering Interim Dean Faryar Jabbari bestowed awards to outstanding faculty at the school's annual awards for the 2025-2026 academic year. The following faculty were honored for their distinguished research, teaching and service to the school.

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Community-facing project, funded by SSRC, will focus on accuracy, use and impacts of AI on residents’ civic understanding, engagement and inclusion

UCI-led Team Developing Evaluation Protocols,...

June 5, 2026

From Ask Sammy in Santa Clarita to Rivy, the City of Riverside's online chatbot, AI is increasingly being tapped to deliver public service information to residents across Southern California cities. But what happens when deployment of this technology outpaces evaluations of its accuracy, use and impacts?

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Three Engineering Faculty and a Student Project

Engineering Research Featured on Lab...

June 2, 2026

Fabrics that change transparency like squid skin, methalox rockets, mini gyroscopes and neuroelectronics for the brain are the latest topics featured in UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering's podcast The Lab Beat. This captivating podcast takes you right into the labs of engineering researchers as award-winning audio journalist Natalie Tso offers 5-8 minute audio portraits.

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Clockwise, from top left, are Malak Gamal El-Din, Elias Heanue, Scott Duy Kiehn, Cameron Schmitt, Madeleine Marston and Lanie Le.

Six Engineering Graduate Students Named...

June 2, 2026

Six UC Irvine Samueli School students have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award this year. The NSF GRFP recognizes graduate students who are continuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in STEM fields, and who have shown potential to make impactful contributions to the field.

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