Year: 2016

UCLA Engineering Commencement 2016

UCLA Engineering Commencement 2016

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Before heading off to industry, graduate school and myriad other futures, nearly 1,200 UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science graduates received their degrees at Pauley Pavilion on June 11. Gregory...

Iyer Named Holder of the Charles Reames Chair in Electrical Engineering

Iyer Named Holder of the Charles Reames Chair in Electrical Engineering

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Subramanian Iyer, Distinguished Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named to the Charles P. Reames Chair in Electrical Engineering....

UCLA Engineering Receives Gates Foundation Grant for Cancer Research

UCLA Engineering Receives Gates Foundation Grant for Cancer Research

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science announced today that it is a winner of a Grand Challenges Explorations grant, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Daniel Kamei,...

Student-led Cybersecurity Firm Wins 2015-16 ITA Venture Competition

Student-led Cybersecurity Firm Wins 2015-16 ITA Venture Competition

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A cybersecurity firm launched by students from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Anderson School of Management took first prize May 17 in the fourth annual UCLA Student Entrepreneur...

Two Engineering Grad Students Earn Top Defense Fellowships

Two Engineering Grad Students Earn Top Defense Fellowships

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Two graduate students at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, one of the country’s top honors for students...

AI framework developed by UCLA professor now powers Toyota websites

AI framework developed by UCLA professor now powers Toyota websites

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Adnan Darwiche’s invention helps consumers customize their vehicles online By Matthew Chin An innovation in artificial intelligence that was described in a 2001 paper by a UCLA computer science professor has found a...

UCLA-led team develops new method to study mitochondrial DNA diseases

UCLA-led team develops new method to study mitochondrial DNA diseases

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The process utilizes a nanoblade that can open holes in cell membranes By Matthew Chin A UCLA-led team of researchers has demonstrated a new method to conduct research on mitochondrial DNA diseases — a broad group of...

$1 million gift endows chair in name of former dean Vijay Dhir

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A group of nearly 100 donors has come together to give $1 million to create the Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, in honor of the school’s former dean....