Fall Quarter Kicks Off with UCLA Engineering Welcome Day for New Students More than 600 first-year and new transfer students attended the annual event, which featured inspirational speeches from school leadership, student club expos and a tour of the school led by engineering student ambassadors.
Materials Science Class Combines Art History with Ancient Materials Studies Ioanna Kakoulli, a professor of materials science and engineering, teaches MAT33W to help students learn about ancient materials through reverse engineering and analysis of their micro/nanostructure, physical, chemical and mechanical properties.
UCLA Materials Scientist Named 2023 Moore Inventor Fellow Associate professor of materials science and engineering Ximin He has been named a 2023 Moore Inventor Fellow by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The $825,000 award will support her research in developing flexible and energy-sustaining electronics technology.
UCLA Engineering Professor Receives Packard Fellowship Yuzhang Li, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been selected as a 2023 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The award includes a five-year, $875,000 grant.
Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad Madni Awarded John Fritz Medal The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers awarded Asad Madni of electrical and computer engineering the medal in honor of his pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and system technologies.
UCLA Materials Scientist Aaswath Raman Awarded DARPA Fellowship Associate professor Aaswath Raman of materials science and engineering has received the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship Award, which extends his 2021 DARPA Young Faculty Award — a $500,000 grant over two years — for an additional year and $250,000 in funding.
Bolei Zhou Wins Intel’s 2023 Rising Star Faculty Award The assistant professor of computer science was honored for his work in the realm of computer vision and machine autonomy, making him one of 15 recipients selected this year.
Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence Announces 2023 Amazon Fellows Eleven doctoral students of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering from computer science, bioengineering, and electrical and computer engineering have been awarded fellowships to conduct AI research. Established in 2021, the hub has supported 36 Amazon Fellows and, separately, 27 multidisciplinary faculty research projects.
Startup Newsletter by UCLA Grad Pair Hits 10,000 Subscribers UCLA computer science graduate students Arek Der-Sarkissian and Ethan Keshishian launched the weekly newsletter Unicorner during their first year to provide quick updates of emerging early-stage startups.
Lighting Up Tuberculosis with Point-of-Care Diagnostics Bioengineering assistant professor Mireille Kamariza shared in this article her hope to help under-resourced nations tackle one of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases through her research and development of rapid diagnostic tuberculosis tests.
High-Throughput Terahertz Imaging: Progress and Challenges Led by electrical and computer engineering professors Mona Jarrahi and Aydogan Ozcan, the research on the broad applications of an often-overlooked wavelength was profiled in this article.
Business Daily Meets Mohit Lad Mohit Lad, who received his doctorate in computer science from UCLA Samueli in 2007, shared his journey from losing his job amid the 2008 financial crash to launching network intelligence firm Thousand Eyes, which was acquired by Cisco in 2022.
UCLA Bioengineering Alumnus Aims to Democratize Cancer Treatments
Binru “Andy” Chen Ph.D. '23 launched the startup SparkGene Biotechnology while he was still a graduate student at UCLA Samueli. He has already won the top prizes in two UCLA entrepreneurship competitions for a gene-editing device designed to make cell therapy for cancer patients more affordable and accessible.
