India, Feb. 27 -- Through his company CorDx, entrepreneur and philanthropist Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff) and Dongdong Guo (Doreen) have pledged $3 million to the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. The gift will support leading-edge research, education and collaborations in the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering's Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC). This research center serves as an interdisciplinary hub for advancing battery, solar cell and other sustainable energy technologies through a mix of fundamental research and applied-research projects in collaboration with industry partners.

Designated to support the programmatic expansion of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, the gift will go...