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Shriya Shetty
M.S. Plan I - Thesis
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March 14, 2025
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December 14, 2020
A smart ring shows it's possible to detect fever before you feel it
Temperature data collected by wearable devices worn on the finger can be reliably used to detect the onset of fevers, a leading symptom of both COVID-19 and the flu, according to a team of researchers from the University of California San Diego, UC San Francisco and MIT Lincoln Lab. Full Story
December 8, 2020
10 Jacobs School Faculty Named in 2020 List of Highly Cited Researchers
Ten professors at the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering are among the world’s most influential researchers in their fields, according to a new research citation report from the Web of Science Group. The professors, Ludmil Alexandrov, Trey Ideker, Rob Knight, Nathan E. Lewis, Prashant Mali, Ying Shirley Meng, Bernhard O. Palsson, Joseph Wang, Kun Zhang and Liangfang Zhang, are amone 52 professors and researchers at UC San Diego named in the prestigious list of Highly Cited Researchers in 2020. Full Story
November 18, 2020
Alumni-led Lucira Health earns 1st FDA authorization for at-home COVID test
On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use authorization to the first rapid at-home COVID-19 test, developed by Lucira Health. Erik Engelson, a UC San Diego bioengineering and microbiology alumnus, is president and CEO of Lucira Health Full Story
Annual Reports
Bioengineering Annual Impact Report - Fall 2024
- Celebrating our Shu Chien - Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering era at UC San Diego
- New Undergraduate Laboratory to integrate design-and-instrumentation space
- New Faculty - 33% women with 18% from under-represented backgrounds.
