GAURAV SANT, PH.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND HENRY SAMUELI FELLOW IN CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR THE LABORATORY FOR THE CHEMISTRY OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

I’m here because everything that California does is typically forward-looking. The rest of the U.S. and the world follow California 5 to 15 years later. Having the opportunity to be at the forefront of the solutions – that’s a slam-dunk. Why wouldn’t you do it?

I collaborate with people in the dental school, people in bioengineering, people in mechanical engineering, people in chemistry, economics and policy – the whole expanse.
It makes UCLA a nice ecosystem. If you have a question, you can find someone to help you – someone with the very best competencies you can find. These are community-sourced solutions.

Gaurav Sant

As one of the leading universities in the world, we see ourselves as having a blue-sky approach. We see ourselves wanting to develop technologies that might be considered fanciful at one point but become reality very quickly. So we see ourselves looking at a blue sky and saying, ‘Well then, let’s come up with ideas which will change the world.’

Judea Pearl is one of the giants in the field of artificial intelligence

Professor Richard Korf

vice chair, computer science department