As Steven Denbaars joined IEE as executive director in 2025, he introduced IEE 3.0 to reflect UCSB’s growing strengths—including world-class leadership in energy-efficient quantum technologies, photonics and electronics for improved energy efficiency, AI and machine learning, AI-informed computing architectures and infrastructure, energy-efficient storage, and energy analysis and policy. Research at the Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) is organized into six interdisciplinary themes. Projects within each theme attack critical energy efficiency grand challenges.
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Facebook Partners with IEE
Facebook donates $1.5 million to Institute for Energy Efficiency in support of Data Center Efficiency Research
February 3, 2021
2022 Emerging Technologies Review
This year, the Institute for Energy Efficiency at UC Santa Barbara held two virtual workshops as part of the 2022 Emerging Technologies Review
January 20, 2022