New Year’s Message from Dean Jayathi Murthy The new year brings the promise of
vaccines against COVID-19 and the hope that we can return to normal
soon. While we welcome the great news of vaccines being deployed to our
front-line health care workers and the most vulnerable in our community,
we began the winter quarter this week remotely in accordance to public
health guidelines.
UCLA Samueli Steps Up to Combat COVID-19 Engineers are problem
solvers! Our faculty, students and alumni have developed urgently needed
personal protective equipment, cutting-edge testing methods and other
helpful tools to help curb the spread of COVID. Click here to read the highlights.
UCLA Engineer Unwraps Myth of Conspiracy Theory At a time when
misinformation spreads unchecked in an echo chamber of social media,
electrical and computer engineering professor Vwani Roychowdhury unpacks
conspiracy theories on Spectrum News 1 SoCal, using artificial
intelligence to separate conspiracy theories from reality.
Engineering Faculty Part of UCLA Team to Tackle Rising Heat in Los Angeles Over the next two
years, the team that has brought together experts in engineering, urban
planning, public health and environmental law across the UCLA campus
will address the rapid increase in the number of extreme heat events in
Los Angeles.
UCLA Wins 2021 UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives Competition UCLA Samueli School
of Engineering faculty members will lead a UC Multicampus Research
Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) project on developing more equitable
disaster response and participate in another on advanced robots for
health care.
Data Scientist Elected ACM Fellow Wei Wang, UCLA's
Leonard Kleinrock Professor of Computer Science has been elected as a
2020 ACM fellow for “contributions to the foundation and practice of
data mining.”
Computer Science Professor Wins Award for AI Research Cho-Jui Hseih,
assistant professor of computer science, has received the Samsung AI
Researcher of the Year award, which recognizes five individuals from
around the world who have made outstanding contributions to the field of
artificial intelligence.