IRT Information Session Encourages Applications

October 17, 2025 Nearly 100 UC Irvine students filled the CalIT2 Building’s auditorium for the fall quarter Interdisciplinary Research Teams (IRT) program information session. This is the fourth year that CalIT2 is partnering with UCI’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UR
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IRT Program Set to Launch This Wednesday

October 13, 2025 For the fourth year, Calit2 is partnering with UROP to support the Interdisciplinary Research Teams (IRT) Program, which connects graduate and undergraduate students to collaborate on interdisciplinary research projects at UCI. Each team typically includes one PhD stu
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UCI seeking assistance with grants and employment opportunity.

UCI CalIT2 Is Seeking a Senior Contract and Grant Analyst

October 9, 2025 CalIT2 at UC Irvine has posted a position for a Senior Contract and Grant Analyst. You can view the job description HERE. The position requires the experience and knowledge of a seasoned research administrator to independently process and / or oversee proposals and awa
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MADO 2026 is On, Industry Participants Can Apply Now!

September 24, 2025 – G.P.Li and 2023 MADO students at CALIT2. The CalIT2 Make a Difference Opportunity (MADO) program is now accepting applicants, for 2026, from local companies to participate in this win-win opportunity. MADO provides a unique chance for undergraduate and graduate UC
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Blending Psychiatry and Computer Science to Improve Mental Health

Sergio Gago-Masague, a computer science professor, and Firoza Mamdani, PhD, an assistant researcher of psychiatry and human behavior. UC Irvine faculty in psychiatry and computer science are collaborating with Asahi Breweries to develop a smartwatch-based application for diagnosing an
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A Multi-Wavelength Approach to Wildfire and Air Quality Monitoring

Pioneering work by the University of California San Diego's HPWREN program on the deployment of optical cameras and wireless communications hardware on mountain tops has led to a network of more than seven hundred ALERTCalifornia stations throughout the state.
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Birch Hill, Palomar Mountain: Imaging the Invisible at Community Scale

This research experiment is led by Dr. Glenn Healey at the University of California, Irvine, in collaboration with University of California San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia and the UCSD High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN).
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UCI Professors Athina Markopoulou and G.P. Li, the new and former directors of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2)

G.P. Li Hands Reins of CalIT2 to Athina Markopoulou

Sept. 5, 2025 – G.P. Li,  the longest-serving director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2) at UCI, is handing the reins over to Athina Markopoulou, a UCI professor of electrical engineering and computer science. G.P. stands for
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The e+Society Institute core team posing as a group.

Samueli School’s Engineering+ Society Institute to Focus on AI

July 15, 2025 Samueli School Dean Magnus Egerstedt announced that the Engineering+ Society Institute will focus on “Engineering AI for Society” with Athina Markopoulou as the institute’s inaugural director. Markopoulou is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and
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Digital Images showcasing the squid

Researchers Uncover Cell Structures That Squids Use to Change Their Appearance

July 10, 2025 By examining squid skin cells three-dimensionally, a University of California, Irvine-led team has unveiled the structures responsible for the creatures’ ability to dynamically change their appearance from transparent to arbitrarily colored states. The group of scientist
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