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Shaolei Ren gives his TED talk

Professor’s TED Talk warns of AI’s hidden water costs 

While artificial intelligence, or AI, is transforming industries, its environmental impact is often overlooked. Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, took to a TED Talk stage last fall in Vienna, Austria, to discuss a hidden consequence of AI’s rapid expansion. In his talk...

By David Danelski | March 5, 2025 | Science / Technology
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UCR experts call for comprehensive electrical grid upgrades 

Significant growth in electricity use in California in the coming decades calls for systemic, well-coordinated, proactive, collaborative, and equitable upgrades to state’s electrical grid

By David Danelski | September 27, 2024 | Science / Technology
data center and power plant

Professor joins UN panel on environmental impacts of AI

UC Riverside professor Shaolei Ren remotely shared his research findings about the the environmental consequences of increasing AI processing demands to a United Nations committee meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.

By David Danelski | July 8, 2024 | Science / Technology
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UCR professor to serve on United Nations climate panel

Representing the United States, UCR professor Mihri Ozkan I will provide recommendations to a United Nations panel for emerging research and strategies needed to shape the future of direct air carbon capture technology and "its role in our collective quest for a carbon-neutral society."

By David Danelski | June 26, 2024 | Science / Technology
Deepfakes photo illustration

Q&A: What can be done about the proliferation of deepfakes?

Q&A forum: UC Riverside computer science and public policy experts discuss the proliferation of malicious deepfake content in public discourse.

By David Danelski | February 22, 2024 | Science / Technology, Experts
fast computer processing

Method identified to double computer processing speeds

UCR computer scientists identify method identified to double computer processing speed using existing hardware

By David Danelski | February 21, 2024 | Science / Technology
electric vehicle with lithium battery

Grant powers regional lithium mining hub as shortage looms

Those working to establish a sustainable lithium mining industry in Southern California have gotten a surge of support with a new grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.

By Jules Bernstein | November 7, 2023 | Science / Technology
coal plant

AI creates new environmental injustices, but there’s a fix

AI is creating inequitable environmental consequences in the form of water consumption to keep servers cool and air pollution from power plants that supply the electricity. But the tech companies could distribute their processing loads to avoid environmental injustices, UCR study finds.

By David Danelski | July 12, 2023 | Science / Technology
heat in electronics

Breaking the heat barrier of computer innovation

As our computers and other electronic devices become faster and more powerful, they are coming closer to an undeniable physical limitation: heat generated by the electrons that carry information as they move through semiconductors. “Making heat is a fundamental limit that will prevent the further development of electronic devices. So...

By David Danelski | May 9, 2023 | Science / Technology
Google data center

AI programs consume large volumes of scarce water

UCR study the first time estimates the huge water footprint from running artificial intelligence queries that rely on the cloud computations done in racks of servers that must be kept cool in warehouse-sized data processing centers.

By David Danelski | April 28, 2023 | Science / Technology
Quantum electrons

UCR team creates “quantum composites” for various electrical and optical innovations

UCR team has shown in the laboratory the unique and practical function of newly created materials, which they called quantum composites, that may advance electrical, optical, and computer technologies.

By David Danelski | April 18, 2023 | Science / Technology
electric vehicle

NSF-funded project aims to enhance STEM graduate training in sustainable transportation

New UC Riverside program will train doctoral students on translating science into public policy

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 5, 2022 | Science / Technology
Illustration suggesting the computer vision system of a self-driving carr

Protecting computer vision from adversarial attacks

UC Riverside engineers are developing methods to keep self-driving cars and autonomous drones from being hacked

By Holly Ober | June 15, 2022 | Science / Technology
Emissions coming from factory chimneys

Fighting climate change with carbon capture and utilization technologies

Two UC Riverside experts explain how carbon capture and utilization technologies work, and what needs to improve for them to deliver on their promise

By Holly Ober | March 8, 2022 | Science / Technology
A cluster of amethyst crystals

Time crystals leave the lab

Time crystals that persist indefinitely at room temperature could have applications in precision timekeeping

By Holly Ober | February 14, 2022 | Science / Technology
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“Magic wand” reveals a colorful nano-world

Novel color photography using a high-efficiency probe can super-focus white light into a 6-nanometer spot for nanoscale color imaging

By Holly Ober | November 23, 2021 | Science / Technology
Photo of laptop, tablet, and cellphone

Quickly optimizing deep neural networks for different devices

New technique makes apps perform better across devices while keeping costs about the same

By Holly Ober | November 15, 2021 | Science / Technology
Mahmood Shaheen and Nathaniel Ortiz sit with Scotty before a commencement ceremony

Chance meeting spawned a tech startup for these engineering students

Friends Mahmood Shaheen and Nathaniel Ortiz are taking recycling to the next level

By Holly Ober | June 25, 2021 | Students, Science / Technology
Air polluting smokestack

Is it feasible to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

A UC Riverside engineer discusses direct air capture

By Holly Ober | June 14, 2021 | Science / Technology
a soft robot made at UCR

UC Riverside offers UC system's first master's degree in robotics

Algorithmic bias is one problem the program will tackle

By Holly Ober | May 25, 2021 | Science / Technology
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