By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor’s Professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a 2014 Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
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Six Researchers Named to 2014 Highly Cited List
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Six UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science researchers are among the scholars with the greatest impact in the world in their fields, according to a new ranking compiled by Thomson Reuters. Thomson...
UCLA Engineering to Lead NSF Project to Improve Timekeeping for ‘Internet of Things’
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin The National Science Foundation has announced a $4 million "Frontier" award to a UCLA-based team that will tackle the challenge of timekeeping in cyber-physical systems (CPS) — often called the "Internet of...
2014 Commencement Awards
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]2014 UCLA Engineering Award Winners at Commencement Several students at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been honored with school-wide and department awards for 2014. Below, a few...
UCLA AISES Team Wins Rocket Competition
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk A team from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science was first in flight at the First Nations Launch 2014 rocket competition, sponsored by the American Indian Science and Engineering...
Two UCLA Engineering postdocs win 2014 Chancellor’s Awards
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Two UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science postdoctoral scholars are among the winners of the 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research at UCLA. Twenty-eight of UCLA’s 1,167...
UCLA Researchers Create Nanoscale Structure for Computer Chips that Could Yield Higher-Performance Memory
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Researchers at UCLA have created a nanoscale magnetic component for computer memory chips that could significantly improve their energy efficiency and scalability. The design brings a new and highly...
Nanoparticles to Control Growth of Materials
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA-led team creates 'diet control' technique that could have broad applications in manufacturing and medicine Matthew Chin Growth is a ubiquitous phenomenon in plants and animals. But it also occurs naturally in...
Magnetic Topological Insulators Developed at UCLA are 1,000 Times More Energy-Efficient for Switching
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Topological insulators are an emerging class of materials that act as both insulators and conductors, and could potentially be used in smartphones, computers and other electronic devices. A research team at...
UCLA Racing | Baja SAE Team Takes Honors in El Paso
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Members of the UCLA Racing | Baja SAE team drove non-stop to El Paso, Texas, this month and returned home with several first-place awards and an overall fifth-place finish in a Society of Automotive Engineers’ Collegiate...
UCLA Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Judea Pearl Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Judea Pearl, professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that can be...
UCLA Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Judea Pearl Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Judea Pearl, professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that can be...