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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

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

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

July 9, 2025 Most AI chatbots feel like a goldfish. You have a conversation, maybe even a deep one, and the next time you interact, it’s as if you never met. No memory, no continuity, just a blank slate. Bill Tomlinson, a professor at UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and

Professor Athina Markopoulou has been selected as the next director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UC Irvine effective July 1.