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DEDICATED TO EXCELLENCE
Serving the common good in a global city that thrives on innovation and teems with opportunity,
UCLA Samueli is a new kind of engineering school.
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Faculty Profiles
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VERONICA SANTOS, PH.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AND DIRECTOR OF THE UCLA BIOMECHATRONICS LABORATORY
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JUDEA PEARL, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND DIRECTOR OF THE COGNITIVE SYSTEMS LAB
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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
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72° and sunny
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creative capital of the world
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golden state
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Student & Alumni Profiles
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DANIELA MARQUES
THIRD-YEAR MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING STUDENT
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WESTBROOK WEAVER,
M.S. ’11, PH.D. ’13
FOUNDER AND CEO OF TEMPO THERAPEUTICS
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APURVA PANSE, B.S. ’18
ASSOCIATE PRODUCT MANAGER AT GOOGLE
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astronaut Megan McArthur, B.S. ’93
on Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-125
Exploration is important to me. I think it’s important to the human spirit. It’s something that we have always done, pushed beyond the boundaries of what we know, what we can do, what we can build.