On a Saturday morning in late January, more than 200 people from across the globe hopped online to participate in QWER Hacks, UCLA’s first-ever LGBTQIA+ hackathon.
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UCLA Samueli Alumna Shares Experience Landing Mars Rover Amid Pandemic
UCLA mechanical engineering alumna Anais Zarifian ’16 has had an amazing career “win” with the recent Mars Perseverance rover landing.
UCLA HKN Honor Society Receives Outstanding Chapter Award
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) honor society awarded UCLA’s HKN chapter an Outstanding Chapter Award for the 16th year in a row.
UCLA Human-Computer Interaction Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award to Develop AI for Physicians
Xiang “Anthony” Chen, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award,
UCLA Electrical Engineer Featured in Science Journal on Ways to Improve Equity in Medical Devices
Achuta Kadambi, an assistant professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, published a column in the journal Science about how medical devices can be fundamentally biased
UCLA Researchers Use AI to Show Multidimensional Imaging of Biological Processes
UCLA bioengineers and colleagues have created a new imaging system that advances dynamic imaging microscopy with artificial intelligence.
UCLA Computer Scientist Receives NSF CAREER Award to Make Machine Learning Smarter and Safer
Cho-Jui Hsieh, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award,
UCLA Researchers Develop New, Noninvasive AI Method to Inspect Live Cells and Gain Critical Data
Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have discovered a new artificial intelligence-based method to discern the properties of live biological cells without destroying them.
Chemical cocktail creates new avenues for generating muscle stem cells
A UCLA-led research team has identified a chemical cocktail that enables the production of large numbers of muscle stem cells, which can self-renew and give rise to all types of skeletal muscle cells.
UCLA Aerospace Engineering Alumna to Pilot SpaceX Dragon on Return to Space
UCLA aerospace engineering alumna and NASA astronaut Megan McArthur ’93 will pilot the SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) this spring.
UCLA Engineering Speaker Series Features Facebook Chief Technology Officer
For many UCLA students, their first interaction with Facebook might have been their parents sharing their baby pictures or elementary school photos with friends and family, perhaps much to their dismay.
UCLA Engineering Alumna Plays Key Role in Mars Rover Launch
UCLA aerospace engineering alumna, Melony Mahaarachchi ’09, can add another win to her career achievements with the successful landing of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in February.