UCLA Engineering Announces Alumnus of the Year Award Timothy Frei ’85, M.S. ’87, CERT ’01, a veteran tech executive at Northrop Grumman and mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate, received the Alumnus of the Year Award for his extraordinary professional achievements.
UCLA Engineering Announces Lifetime Contribution Award The late Eldon Knuth, a bronze star-decorated World War II U.S. Army veteran and professor emeritus of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was recognized posthumously with the school’s Lifetime Contribution Award.
UCLA Engineering Announces University Service Award Eric Hoek, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, received the University Service Award for his leadership heading UCLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge and his contributions to sustainable environmental technology research.
GEER and EERI Release Joint Report on 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Three months after the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute have published an in-depth report with input from civil and environmental engineering professor Jonathan Stewart.
UCLA Engineers Develop an AI-Designed Unidirectional Imager Published in Science Advances, a research study led by Aydogan Ozcan and Mona Jarrahi, professors of electrical and computer engineering as well as the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, focused on the creation of an AI-trained material for one-way imaging.
UCLA Engineering Professor Named Editor-in-Chief of Major Scientific Journal Timothy Fisher, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been named editor-in-chief of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer — the third UCLA Samueli professor to hold the position.
Lihua Jin Selected for the 2023 PMSE Early Stage Investigator Award Lihua Jin, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been selected as the recipient of the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering award for her accomplishments in the field.
UCLA SAMUELI IN THE NEWS
U.S. Focuses on Invigorating ‘Chiplets’ to Stay Cutting-Edge in Tech Subramanian Iyer, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, shared his thoughts on ‘packaging,’ an emerging design concept for microchip manufacturing where smaller chips are packed tightly together to work like an electronic brain.
How Shocking the Ocean Could Turn It Into a Carbon Removal Powerhouse Gaurav Sant, the director of UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management and a professor of civil and environmental engineering, leads a project to electrochemically treat seawater and safely store carbon to alleviate climate change. This story was also featured on ABC7 and VOA News.
Opinion: Another Reason Hollywood Will Love AI A Brookings Institution opinion piece on ChatGPT written by John Villasenor — faculty director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy — and student Jeremy Baum was highlighted in this op-ed.
Gaurav Sant, UCLA Professor, Founder of CarbonBuilt & Equatic Matt Matern, host of the podcast, interviewed the professor of civil and environmental engineering and of materials science and engineering on ways carbon emissions can be captured, stored and removed.
How was the Internet Created? Leonard Kleinrock, a distinguished professor of computer science and one of the founders of the modern internet, described the creation of the internet precursor network, ‘ARPANET,’ at UCLA.
Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis — Until Now Eric Hoek, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, shared his thoughts on a study that demonstrates how water travels through a plastic membrane could make desalination more efficient.
Quantum Physics Proposes a New Way to Study Biology Clarice Aiello, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, wrote about the importance of researching quantum biology, the quantum-driven behaviors of biological systems and how they could aid in health care. The opinion piece was also carried by APS Physics.
STUDENTS
Computer Science Student Aims to Break Bamboo Ceiling for Asian Americans Dagny Parayao, a second year computer science major, aims to address the model minority stereotype through her leadership in UCLA student-run organization Samahang Pilipino and the Association for Computing Machinery, while pursuing a career in software engineering.
ALUMNI
Bruin Engineer Builds Startup to Tackle Sepsis One Cell at a Time Henry Tse Ph.D. ’12, a former doctoral student of bioengineering professor Dino Di Carlo and co-founder of medical diagnostics company Cytovale, developed an FDA-approved, sepsis diagnostic tool, IntelliSep, for early detection of the disease.
