Emily Cerf
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UC Santa Cruz hosts AI summit and hackathon events for SF Tech Week
The two events brought together industry leaders, founders, builders, and students.
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Nicotine exposure during pregnancy increases flu severity later in life
UC Santa Cruz researchers found that nicotine exposure during pregnancy and just after birth alters the stem cells that create the body’s blood cells and other crucial lung immune cells
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Two UC Santa Cruz faculty win NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards
The two awardees are Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jaron Mercer and Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Andy Yeh
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Ashesh Chattopadhyay named Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow
Chattopadhyay will build steerable AI for science models with the prestigious fellowship
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Mitigating risks in free-flowing AI chatbot conversations
The NSF CAREER Award-funded research will focus on safety in addiction-recovery and teenage mental health scenarios, but can be applied to any chatbot use.
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Partnership with Fujitsu enables long-term impact forecasting of climate risks
Ashesh Chattopadhyay and Fujitsu Research are developing actionable AI-based climate models that reduce resource-guzzling computation time from months to minutes
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NIH grant supports bringing complete genome sequencing from the lab to the clinic
A $2.9 million R01 research award from the National Institutes of Health will support the efforts of engineers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute to further develop and drive down the cost of complete genome sequencing technology.
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Exploring cybersecurity needs for energy-efficient analog computing
Baskin Engineering hardware security expert Dustin Richmond will study vulnerabilities in compute-in-memory architectures with the support of an NSF CAREER Award.



