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Testing wireless tech just got easier. Researchers at the and UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have developed Tiny-Twin, a free, open-source “digital twin” that lets researchers test wireless technologies in realistic virtual environments using standard computers. The platform could help graduate students, startups and smaller research teams develop next-generation wireless technologies faster.

Read more: https://go.ucsd.edu/4e0LO54

UC San Diego Electrical and Computer Engineering

UC San Diego Researchers Launch Free 'Digital Twin' for Testing Wireless Innovations - Qualcomm Institute UC San Diego researchers developed Tiny-Twin, a free open-source digital twin that lets researchers test wireless technologies realistically without costly hardware or proprietary data.

Join us at QI’s Atkinson Hall Auditorium on May 29th at 12 pm for another lecture as part of the Integration of Nanotechnology & Engineering to Life Sciences Seminar Series.

Join Nicole Steinmetz, Leo and Trude Szilard Chancellor's Endowed Chair, for their talk ‘From Plants to Planets: Plant Virus Therapeutics for One Health’.

This seminar is hosted by the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute in partnership with the Goeddel Family Technology Sandbox at the School of Biological Sciences.

How did ancient societies respond to dramatic climate swings?

A new study led by and אוניברסיטת חיפה - University of Haifa scientists reconstructed 4,000 years of climate change in the ancient Mediterranean — revealing that people adapted to centuries of environmental instability rather than simply abandoning the region.

Using sediment cores from a former wetland, researchers developed a new way to reconstruct ancient climate using fossils, pollen, charcoal and chemistry preserved in mud.

Read more: https://go.ucsd.edu/4tXaMYR

Scripps Institution of Oceanography UC San Diego Department of Anthropology UC San Diego Social Sciences Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability - CCAS

Scientists Uncover Centuries of Climate Chaos - and Human Resilience - Qualcomm Institute UC San Diego researchers reconstructed 4,000 years of ancient climate swings, revealing how Mediterranean societies adapted to instability.

Thursday, May 28 - 5:00 PM at the Qualcomm Institute
Atkinson Hall - CALIT2 Auditorium

Common Threads:
The Mivos Quartet performs compositions by:
Daniel Cui, Ana Diaz De Cossio, Sivan Silver-Swartz and Haihui Zhang.

Presented in partnership with Lei Lab and ArtPower at UC San Diego.

Mivos Quartet:

The Mivos Quartet is devoted to bringing incredible new string quartet music, in all its variety, to diverse audiences worldwide. Since its founding in 2008, the quartet has performed and closely collaborated with established and emerging composers representing a broad range of demographics and compositional aesthetics. Mivos commissions and premieres new music for string quartet, while also sustainably nurturing the repertoire by offering repeat performances of new works in their regular touring season. The quartet strives for deep, meaningful collaborations with composers for each new work and project. Beyond building the string quartet repertoire, Mivos expands the capabilities of the ensemble by regularly working with guest artists from varied, overlapping traditions and genres. The quartet curates concert programs that they would want to hear - pieces of music that complement each other and offer audiences a rich, powerful and meaningful listening experience.



RSVP via link at ideas.ucsd.edu

The next bottleneck in satellite connectivity may be on the ground. UC San Diego engineers developed ArrayLink, a new ground-station design that swaps one bulky dish for a number of small antenna panels. The payoff: under the right conditions, up to 4 simultaneous data streams and up to 3x the throughput of a traditional dish. The researchers are presenting the innovation at an IEEE conference this week. Read more: https://qi.ucsd.edu/a-faster-smarter-ground-station-for-crowded-skies/
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering UC San Diego Electrical and Computer Engineering

A Faster, Smarter Ground Station for Crowded Skies - Qualcomm Institute UC San Diego engineers propose a distributed satellite ground station that could boost throughput using coordinated small phased-array panels.

More than 350,000 Americans suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year — and survival remains low.

A new study from UC San Diego and collaborators introduces ChatCPR, an open-source AI CPR coach that delivered more complete, guideline-based instructions than human dispatchers in tests using real 911-call recordings.

The goal is not to replace dispatchers or first responders, researchers say, but to support people in high-stakes moments when fast, clear guidance can save lives.

Real-world testing, safeguards and legal clarity are still needed before tools like this can be deployed widely.

Read more: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/ai-powered-cpr-coach-outperforms-911-dispatchers-in-guiding-bystander-resuscitation

UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute UC San Diego School of Medicine

AI-Powered CPR Coach Outperforms 911 Dispatchers in Guiding Bystander Resuscitation Open-source AI agent ChatCPR beat human dispatchers at CPR coaching in every head-to-head test - delivering guideline-based help that could save lives in 350,000+ U.S. out-of-hospital cardiac arrests each year.

Join the IDEAS series at QI Thursday 5/21 at 5:00 PM for a performance of Peeling Cycle by Anqi Liu, Han Zhang and Mingyong Cheng.

Peeling Cycle is a live audiovisual performance with DIY laser device, multimodal AI generation, and embodied interactive performance that investigates how artificial intelligence participates in the production of gendered visibility. The work understands AI as part of a surrogate human order shaped by racialized and gendered structures embedded in social data. Language-based AI inherits social bias as well as structured relations: associations, proximities, and symbolic hierarchies, through which social reality is organized and interpreted. From this position, the project asks whether machine perception can be reoriented through the lived experiences of Asian female immigrant artists, shifting AI from abstract recognition toward situated interpretation.

Technically, the work integrates endoscopic camera input, breath classification through spectral analysis, DIY laser projection, live object detection, word-vector association, language-model interpretation, customized voice synthesis, and real-time image and audio generation through TouchDesigner and Ableton Live. These processes are incorporated as representational procedures: sensing, scanning, associating, narrating, and re-rendering become ways of staging how bodies are made visible, classified, translated, and misrecognized through technological systems. By embedding AI outputs within live gesture, sound, material interaction, laser movement, and manual visual control, Peeling Cycle resists the model of AI as an autonomous generator and instead stages machine intelligence as a contested mirror of social reality.

RSVP at Eventbrite, more info and link at ideas.ucsd.edu

Thanks to KPBS reporter Tammy Murga for this wonderful story on the latest collaboration between Lei Liang of and UC San Diego Music and Joshua Jones of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. As Lei says, "We can now hear what the world sounds like at some of the most inaccessible places to human beings.” UC San Diego School of Arts & Humanities

UCSD scientists, musicians are making music from ocean sounds humans can’t hear The premiere of “The Inaudible Ocean” is on May 20 at the Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall in La Jolla.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Qualcomm Institute for the 2026 WOW Festival!

For four unforgettable days, our halls were transformed by immersive performances, interactive installations, and boundary-pushing creativity from incredible local, national, and international artists. It was inspiring to see so many people come together to experience art in new and unexpected ways.

A huge thank you to La Jolla Playhouse and all of the artists, collaborators, staff, students, and visitors who made this year’s festival so special. We loved opening our space to a community energized by creativity, curiosity, and connection.

We’re grateful to everyone who came out to explore, participate, and celebrate with us — until next time! 🎭

Photos by Hana Tobias for the Qualcomm Institute.

Quantum technology could transform how we design materials, protect data and solve complex logistics problems — but getting there will take more than technical breakthroughs.

Ahead of the Quantum San Diego Convening at , QI Research Specialist Riley Need explains why California’s quantum future depends on coordination across industry, academia, government and the nonprofit sector.

Read more: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/how-a-convening-at-uc-san-diego-qualcomm-institute-could-help-shape-californias-quantum-future

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Physical Sciences | UC San Diego California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) Hewlett Packard Enterprise

How a Convening at UC San Diego Could Help Shape California’s Quantum Future As quantum technology reaches a pivotal moment, UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute is bringing leaders together to help shape what comes next — for San Diego, California and the field.