"To improve health and quality of life by applying engineering principles to scientific discovery and technology innovation, and to train future leaders in Bioengineering through inspiring education and dedicated mentorship"
The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the 9th best in the world for engineering/technology and 15th in the world for computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) in engineering are based on academic and research performance. Indicators considered include: number of researchers highly cited for their work in engineering, computer science and materials science; articles indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded; percentage of articles by faculty published in top-tier journals; and total engineering-related research expenditures.
Dr. Cauwenberghs received his Engineer’s Degree in Applied Physics from the University of Brussels in 1988. He obtained his Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1994 from the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Cauwenberghs has held professorial appointments at Johns Hopkins University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the UC San Diego Division of Biological Sciences, Neurobiology Section, in 2005. In July of 2009, Dr. Cauwenberghs was appointed Professor in the UC San Diego Department of Bioengineering.
Bioengineering Ph.D. student and cancer diagnostics pioneer Raj Krishnan won the “Best Pitch” award at the 3rd Annual Tech Coast Angel (TCA) Quick Pitch Competition.
Competition participants had a maximum of 2 minutes and 5 slides to sell their company story to the approximately 300 attendees, including potential investors.
“There were 3 prizes, Best Pitch, Best Content and Best Overall. We won the Best Pitch prize for the best presentation they had seen at the competition,” wrote Krishnan in an email. Krishnan is the founder of Biological Dynamics, an early stage startup with its sights set on the early cancer diagnosis market.