UCLA Team Awarded $5 Million DARPA Contract to Develop AI for Math Advancement Led by Wei Wang, a professor and chair of the Computer Science Department, the team includes computer science professor Amit Sahai and associate professors Kai-Wei Chang and Nanyun (Violet) Peng. Andrea Bertozzi, a distinguished professor of mathematics and mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Terence Tao, a professor of mathematics, are also part of the team.
UCLA Researchers Develop Smart Stent to Track Blood Flow in Real Time Led by Jun Chen, an associate professor of bioengineering, UCLA engineers and physicians have developed a self-powered magnetoelastic device designed to capture and convert vascular motion into electrical signals for continuous monitoring, potentially enabling earlier detection of post-angioplasty complications.
Skin-Deep Microneedle Sensor Tracks Drug Clearance and Reveals Early Kidney and Liver Dysfunction Sam Emaminejad, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, led a UCLA research team that has developed a minimally invasive microneedle platform with improved signal quality and resistance to abrasion that continuously tracks how quickly drugs are cleared from the body.
How UCLA Researchers Cleared the Nanoscale Bottleneck Holding Back Next-Gen Electronics Yu Huang, a professor of materials science and engineering, contributed to research that leverages a quantum mechanical process called tunneling to facilitate the flow of electrical current into perovskite semiconductors, an emerging class of materials with significant potential for advanced electronics.
Hockey Rinks Turn to Plastic Ice as Planet Warms Sanjay Mohanty, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, comments on the potential increase in microplastics generated by skating on plastic ice rinks, which are growing in popularity.
Super Heat Conductor Challenges Fundamental Physics Yongjie Hu, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, discusses his research on a newly synthesized metallic material that can conduct heat three times more efficiently than copper.
Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography Prineha Narang, a professor of physical sciences and electrical and computer engineering, shares insights on how the new approach to encryption developed in the 1980s relies on the fundamental laws of physics to make it unhackable.
