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November 2020

UCLA Samueli School of Engineering announces 2020-21 new faculty

UCLA Samueli Announces 2020-21 New Faculty
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering is proud to welcome prominent new faculty members to its growing roster of nearly 200 full-time faculty.

UCLA Samueli Announces New Endowed Faculty Chairs
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering is proud to announce that seven faculty members have been selected to hold endowed faculty chairs.

Researchers Create Armored Emulsions as Tiny Test Tubes for Parallel Reactions
Advance shows path for "lab-on-a-particle" technologies will help democratize scientific research and health diagnostics.

UCLA-Led Research Shows Efficient and Inexpensive Fuel-Cells in Sight
A team of UCLA, Caltech and Ford Motor Company researchers has improved fuel-cell technologies to exceed the U.S. Department of Energy targets in efficiency, stability and power.

Materials Scientists Upgrade Razor-Thin Cooling Device to Drastically Lower Temperature
UCLA materials scientists have made major design-improvements to a thin, flexible device that could cool flexible electronics by as many as 16 degrees Fahrenheit.

UCLA Connection Laboratory Launches Website on International Internet Day
The new lab, led by internet pioneer and Computer Science Professor Leonard Kleinrock, provides an environment to support advanced research in cutting-edge communications technologies.

Quanta Magazine Highlights UCLA Computer Scientists for Achieving “Crown Jewel” of Cryptography
UCLA computer scientists have successfully solved a decades-long mystery surrounding indistinguishability obfuscation, or iO, a master tool for encryption.

UCLA Computer Scientists Achieving “Crown Jewel” of Cryptography

Civil & Environmental Engineering Postdoc Recounts Journey from Nigeria
Chukwuebuka “Buka” Nweke overcame adversities to become a beacon of light for students interested in engineering, both as an active mentor for CEED students and an educator of future engineers.

STUDENTS

Summer Program Helps Prepare Engineering Transfer Students
UCLA Engineering Transfer Bridge provides incoming transfer students with the opportunity to develop a strong engineering mindset and gain real-world experience.

Three UCLA Computer Science Students Named DeepMind Scholars
Three UCLA Samueli graduate students have each received a fellowship from U.K.-based DeepMind, a leading artificial intelligence research company.

Computational Medicine Graduate Student Wins NSF Fellowship
Paheli Desai-Chowdhry recently won a National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award and shared her experience in applying for the program.

ALUMNI NEWS

Salute Our Veterans: UCLA Samueli Pays Tribute to Military-Service Engineering Alumni
We reached out to some of our service alumni to learn about their experience and to thank them for their tremendous contributions to our country.

Computer Science Alumnus on Work at Google and Teaching Programming at UCLA
Josh Hyman (’05, MS ’08, Ph.D. ’10) works as a principal software engineer at Google. He also teaches CS130 at UCLA, which covers scalable software engineering practices.

In Memoriam: B. John Garrick, Pioneer in Development and Application of Risk Sciences
B. John Garrick (M.S. ’62, Ph.D. ’68), an international authority on quantitative risk assessment and a distinguished adjunct professor of materials science and engineering at UCLA, has passed away.

EVENTS
Nov 19 | The Future of Prosthetics: Restoring Limbs and Movement
Dec 1 | The Future of Aerospace Technology and Industry in Greater Los Angeles

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