UCLA and Equatic to Build World’s Largest Ocean-Based Plant for Carbon Removal The $20 million full-scale demonstration plant is supported by Singapore’s national water agency PUB and its National Research Foundation, as well as by UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management led by civil and environmental engineering professor Gaurav Sant, with collaborations from David Jassby and Dante Simonetti, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.
Speaking Without Vocal Cords, Thanks to a New AI-Assisted Wearable Device A team of UCLA bioengineers, led by assistant professor Jun Chen, has invented a soft, thin, stretchy device that can be attached to the skin outside the throat to help people with dysfunctional vocal cords regain their voice function.
Ultra-Strong, Elastic Bioadhesive with Tunable Multifunctionality A UCLA research team led by Nasim Annabi, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has developed a tough tissue-adhesive hydrogel patch that clings to a wound in wet tissue surfaces after pressing it gently for just a few seconds.
UCLA Computer Science Professor Named AI2050 Fellow Aditya Grover, an assistant professor of computer science, has been awarded a 2023 AI2050 Early Career Fellowship by Schmidt Sciences. The award will provide $300,000 in funding to support Grover’s development of a new artificial intelligence-based model for forecasting extreme weather.
Faculty Members Discuss Impact of AI on Academic Research The all-day symposium featured UCLA Samueli faculty, including Department of Computational Medicine chair Eleazar Eskin, computer science faculty Wei Wang and Aditya Grover, Alex Bui of bioengineering and Mayank Mehta of electrical and computer engineering.
Taylor Swift’s L.A. Fans Made SoFi Concerts Shake, Shake, Shake, Caltech-UCLA Study Says The Times features the joint study by Caltech and UCLA Samueli, which shows the pop star caused “Swiftquakes” at SoFi Stadium last summer as her fans danced and jumped to some of her most popular songs. Civil and environmental engineering professor Yousef Bozorgnia contributed to the study, which is also highlighted on CBS News and ABC 7.
What Exactly Do Large Language Models Really Understand? Stefano Soatto, Amazon Web Services’ vice president and distinguished scientist, and a professor of computer science currently on leave, discusses a paper he co-authored on using definitions to align with expressions people have used in math, linguistics and other disciplines.
How Two Outsiders Tackled the Mystery of Arithmetic Progressions Raghu Meka, an associate professor of computer science, and his colleague are featured in this story for making an exponential leap in the field of combinatorics, a branch of math that deals with configurations of numbers, points or other mathematical objects.
