Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | University of California Santa Cruz
Our laboratory is interested in a wide range of topics including security of data networks, quantum secret-key agreement, space communications, artificial intelligence (AI), learning-based designs, classification and prediction of bio-vital signals
5/18/2024: The Advanced Learning Frameworks for Space Optical Communications team has released their video for the SOC Autoencoder Raspberry Pi Deployment Project
8/23/2025: Dr. El Fikky has just accepted a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), Donaghey College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
8/20/2025: Dr. Xinyi Wu accepted a faculty position offer from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. She will begin her duties on September 2025. Congratulations to Xinyi!!!
7/8/2025: I am happy to share that Archana is participating in the Global Industry Challenge 2025 and has reached Phase 3 of the Wells Fargo Challenge, which focuses on modeling quantum-inspired conditional evolution for complex financial systems.
7/2/2025: I am happy to share that Archana is participating in the Womanium & WISER Quantum Program 2025.
6/4/2025: I am happy to share that Dr. Xinyi Wu has defended successfully her PhD on June 12, 2025. Congratulation Xinyi!
1/28/205: I am happy to share that Archana Singh will participate in MITs quantum hackathon remotely: iQuHack 2025.
12/13/2024: I am happy to share that Dr. Abdelrahman ELFikky has finished his PhD effective December 13, 2024.
5/30/2024: I am happy to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor effective July 2024.
5/3/2024: Congratulations Abdelrahman ElFikky for winning the prestigious 2023-2024 Excellence in Teaching Award. He is one of the 8 winners among 370 students nominations.
12/6/2023: Congratulations to Abdelrahman ElFikky! The Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) has selected him as an Electrical and Computer Engineering department representative to participate and receive the award in the 2024 cohort of the Graduate Pedagogy Fellows (GPF).
11/20/2023: Congratulations to Abd El Rahman El Fikky for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in the ECE Department for the 2022-23 academic year. Link
10/31/2023: Hosted a seminar: Demystifying 6G Wireless Intelligence, Deep Learning for RIS-Aided mMIMO & the Journey to Explainable AI. Presenter: Dr. Abdulkadir Celik