Origami-Inspired Robots Can Sense, Analyze and Act in Challenging Environments Assistant professor Ankur Mehta of electrical and computer engineering, and doctoral student Wenzhong Yan of mechanical and aerospace engineering outlined a new way to build chip-free, autonomous OrigaMechs with conductive materials.
UCLA Engineering Professor Qibing Pei Receives SPIE Lifetime Achievement Award Qibing Pei, a professor of materials science and engineering, has been selected by SPIE — an international society of optics and photonics — to receive the 2023 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award for his significant contributions to the field.
Aaswath Raman Receives Early Career Award for Materials Science Innovations Assistant professor Aaswath Raman of materials science and engineering received the 2022 Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science award for his multidisciplinary research on controlling light and heat at the nanoscale.
UCLA Transportation Scholar Tierra Bills Receives 2023 Zephyr Rising Star Award Tierra Bills, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been selected for the award for her “rigorous, equity-driven travel demand modeling” and her focus on improving transportation and land use decision-making for the public good.
Andrea Kasko Inducted into the 2023 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows Professor Andrea Kasko of bioengineering was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows for her outstanding contributions to biomaterials research and leadership in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in education.
UCLA Engineering Announces Excellence in Teaching Awards Jens Palsberg, a professor of computer science, and Carissa Eisler, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, have been selected to receive the Eon Instrumentation and Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching awards, respectively.
UCLA Engineering Announces the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Student Awards Shaun Tan Ph.D. ’22, Xingyu Liu M.S. ’22, Emily Dunn ’22 and Griffith Hughes ’22 have been selected by the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering to receive the 2023 Edward K. Rice Outstanding Student Awards for their outstanding achievements in various fields.
Q&A: New Faculty Member Mireille Kamariza Shines a Light on Infectious Disease The bioengineering assistant professor sat down for an interview that delved into her research on a point-of-care diagnostic test for tuberculosis, the motivations behind her research and how her own life experience has informed her work.
CNSI: 5 Questions with UCLA’s Laurent Pilon, ARPA-E Program Director Laurent Pilon, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the new program director for the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), spoke about his love of science as well as his future plans at both UCLA and the agency.
Professor CJ Kim Featured in IEEE EDS Podcast Series with Luminaries Chang-Jin “CJ” Kim, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, shared his professional journey as well as his research into liquid-based microelectromechanical systems on a podcast series of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Electron Device Society.
UCLA SAMUELI IN THE NEWS
An L.A. Startup Aims To Turn The Oceans Into a CO2 Sponge and ‘Green’ Hydrogen Machine Following the unveiling of Project SeaChange at a media event, Forbes featured civil and environmental engineering professor and director of the Institute for Carbon Management Gaurav Sant and startup Equatic spun out of a carbon removal technology developed at UCLA.
Power of Water: Bringing Clean Water to the Most Remote Water-Starved Areas Yoram Cohen, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of the Water Technology Research Center of UCLA, shared his thoughts in this interview on the viability and practicality of hydropanels as a potential solution to the water crisis.
Surprise Computer Science Proof Stuns Mathematicians UCLA computer science assistant professor Rahgu Meka and Zander Kelley, a graduate student at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, were featured in the piece for finding a new and much lower limit on the size of a set of integers in which no three of them are evenly spaced.
Trump Didn’t Get Arrested (Not Yet, At Least). That Was Just AI. Vwani Roychowdhury, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, shared his insights on recent developments in artificial intelligence and AI imaging, and how the technology has contributed to the spread of misinformation. He was also featured in The Independent.
Inside the Issues with Alex Cohen Women’s History Month Segment Ann Karagozian, a UCLA distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Caltech, shared what it is like being a woman in the male-dominated field of aerospace. The segment starts at 30:20.
UCLA Engineering Names 2023 Professional Achievement and Rising Professional Achievement Awardees Alison Brown Ph.D. ’85 — an internationally acclaimed expert in positioning, navigation and timing technologies — and Apple engineering program manager Yu Chen Ph.D. ’14 have been selected to receive the Professional Achievement Award and the Rising Professional Achievement Award, respectively.
