calendar-with-clock-icon-uc-santa-barbara Friday, March 6th, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm
location-icon-uc-santa-barbara Student Resource Building, Multipurpose Room

Presenters:

Abdelrahman Abdelrahman (Engineering)
"Noise Is Not a Bug — It's the Algorithm"

Jordan Bream (Engineering)
"From 1960s Relics to Solid-State Reliability: The NASICON Energy Grid"

James Clinton (Engineering)
"Stiffening, Shaping, and Locomotion of Reconfigurable Robot Swarm Through Simple 1-DOF Arm Mechanisms"

Jaber Daneshamooz (Engineering)
"Practical AI for Internet Performance"

Judges:

Our esteemed judges for this round are:

  • Victor Rios (MacArthur Foundation Chair in the Department of Sociology)

  • Teresa Holden, Ph.D. (Assistant Director of Academic Programs)

  • Jacques Parker (Graduate Student in the Department of Religious Studies)

  • Mark Sten (Lecturer in the Department of Technology Management & Entrepreneur)

  • Eemaan Wahidullah (Off-Campus Senator in the Associated Students Senate)