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Making AI smarter without more training data

David Danelski — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800

UCR researchers develop a method called Test-Time Matching, an approach that significantly improves how AI systems interpret relationships between text and images, especially when presented with unfamiliar combinations.

Smarter AI processing, cleaner air

David Danelski — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800

UCR engineering scientists offer blueprint to cut pollution & prolong server life at big data processing centers

Cool battery power

David Danelski — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

A team of UC Riverside engineers has discovered why a key solid-state battery material stays remarkably cool during operation — a breakthrough that could help make the next generation of lithium batteries safer and more powerful.

Smarter battery tech knows whether your EV will make it home

Jules Bernstein — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

A new diagnostic metric combines charge data and environmental factors like traffic patterns, elevation changes, and ambient temperature to generate real-time predictions about whether an EV battery can complete a specific task.

UCR computer scientists boost US cybersecurity

David Danelski — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700

UCR computer scientists are developing tools to expose hidden cybersecurity vulnerabilities, protect private data, and strengthen the digital defenses that safeguard everything from personal communications to national infrastructure.

Researchers shed light on photo electricity generation

David Danelski — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700

UC Riverside researchers have unveiled a powerful new imaging technique that exposes how cutting-edge materials used in solar panels and light sensors convert light into electricity—offering a path to better, faster, and more efficient devices.

UC Riverside scientists develop tool to detect fake videos

David Danelski — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700

UCR computer scientists team up with Google scientists to develop an artificial intelligence model that detects fake videos — even when manipulations go far beyond face swaps and altered speech.

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

David Danelski — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0800

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.

UCR experts call for comprehensive electrical grid upgrades

David Danelski — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0700

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

Professor joins UN panel on environmental impacts of AI

David Danelski — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700

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.

UCR professor to serve on United Nations climate panel

David Danelski — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700

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."

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

David Danelski — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

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

Method identified to double computer processing speeds

David Danelski — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

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

Grant powers regional lithium mining hub as shortage looms

Jules Bernstein — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0800

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.

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

David Danelski — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0700

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.

Breaking the heat barrier of computer innovation

David Danelski — Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 -0700

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.

AI programs consume large volumes of scarce water

David Danelski — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0700

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.

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

David Danelski — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0700

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.

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

Iqbal Pittalwala — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0700

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

Protecting computer vision from adversarial attacks

Holly Ober — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0700

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