UC Noyce Initiative Advances Digital Innovation

by Sarah Colwell

Learning more about women's brains, protecting the grid from cyberattacks, exploring the capacity of quantum computing — these are transformational research projects being pursued because of a new, five-campus, University of California consortium called The UC Noyce Initiative. 

The UC Noyce Initiative brings together researchers from five UC campuses — Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, San Francisco and Santa Barbara — by building community and providing financial funding for cross-campus research projects in digital innovation. Current funding priorities for the Initiative are computational health (i.e. generative artificial intelligence applied to health and life sciences), cybersecurity and quantum computing.

"This is a tremendous opportunity not just for the five UC campuses who are involved in the UC Noyce Initiative, but also for society," said Pramod Khargonekar, UC Noyce Initiative executive committee chair and UC Irvine vice chancellor of research. "Because of the accelerating role of digital innovation in our lives, coupled with the research prowess of these five UC campuses, the UC Noyce Initiative stands to positively impact numerous lives."

2023-24 UC Noyce Initiative researchers 

Additional research projects are on the horizon. In 2023-24 the UC Noyce Initiative selected 12 projects to receive funding. The following UC Davis Engineering projects were selected: 

• "ACE: Accurate, Computationally Enhanced and Equitable Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring," led by Soheil Ghiasi from UC Davis.
• "AI for Cybersecurity," led by David Wagner from UC Berkeley, Hao Chan from UC Davis and Christopher Kruegel from UC Santa Barbara.
• "Transforming the Accessibility of Bionic Prosthetic Limbs by Leveraging Modern Computational Approaches and the Emerging Standard of Amputation Surgery," led by Jonathon Schofield from UC Davis.

Learn more about the UC Noyce Initiative

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