3D Printing In Vivo Using Sound Paul Weiss — a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, bioengineering, and materials science and engineering — is part of a research team that has developed an imaging-guided ultrasound 3D printing platform. Other members include graduate student Jason Williams and two Weiss group alumni.
Villasenor Testifies Before U.S. Congress on Artificial Intelligence John Villasenor, an electrical and computer engineering professor and faculty co-director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy, also holds an appointment in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He testified May 8 before the U.S. Congress Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, cautioning that overly expansive transparency rules would undermine AI leadership.
UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineer Mona Jarrahi Named Guggenheim Fellow Mona Jarrahi, who holds the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering, is among 198 distinguished individuals in 53 scholarly disciplines, and the only honoree in the engineering category for the 100th class of fellows.
UCLA Bioengineer Jun Chen Awarded Top Honor for Early-Career Scientist in Materials Research Jun Chen, an associate professor of bioengineering, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Early-Career Investigator Award by the Materials Research Society — the highest distinction for an early-career scientist in materials research, with just one researcher selected each year from an international pool of nominees.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Yuzhang Li Receives Top Early Career Honor for Research and Teaching Yuzhang Li, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering has received a 2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. The honor, which includes a $100,000 research grant, recognizes outstanding faculty within the first five years of their academic careers in chemistry, chemical engineering and related fields who demonstrate a deep commitment to education.
Asad Madni Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Asad Madni ’69, M.S. ’72, a distinguished adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recently named an honorary fellow of Scotland’s national academy for his trailblazing work on GyroChip — a life-saving sensing technology that revolutionized navigation and stability for aerospace and automotive safety systems.
UCLA Samueli Students Earn Second and Third Place at 2025 Grad Slam Shreeram Athreya, Parnian Hemmati and Ophelie Herve earned spots in the top 10, emerging from a pool of more than 100 entrants from across UCLA’s graduate schools. Their presentations combined engineering and biomedical advances to improve diagnostics and deepen understanding of the body’s internal systems.
Almost Half of Americans Breathe Unhealthy Air, Report Finds Following a report from the American Lung Association, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering Regan Patterson, discusses how people of color, particularly Hispanic people, are more likely to live in areas with harmful air quality, a disparity that must be addressed by racially equitable legislation and ongoing monitoring. She is also featured in the Boston Globe.
This Man Made the Modem in Your Phone a Reality UCLA Samueli School of Engineering triple alumnus and namesake Henry Samueli is featured as IEEE's Medal of Honor recipient, highlighting his life's work from establishing a multidisciplinary research program as an assistant professor in electrical engineering at UCLA in 1985, to founding the major chipmaker Broadcom Corp. to commercialize digital broadband technology for wired and wireless communication devices, to his philanthropic work.
Carson Schwesinger's Storybook Rise Continues as Browns Draft Him in Second Round UCLA bioengineering fourth year and former Bruins linebacker Carson Schwesinger has been drafted by the National Football League as the first pick of the second round by the Cleveland Browns at No. 33 overall, the first player from UCLA or USC selected in the 2025 NFL draft.
Meet the Internet’s Founding Fathers Leonard Kleinrock, a distinguished professor emeritus of computer science, is highlighted in this article for his role in helping improve signal efficiency in the1960s, which eventually led to the development of the modern internet and the so-called information superhighway.
Gen AI Chatbots Are Starting to Remember You. Should You Let Them? Aditya Grover, an assistant professor of computer science, shares his insights on how chatbots can appear to remember information by incorporating the text of previous conversations into the new prompts they are asked to answer. He also comments on his work developing a diffusion-based AI model in this VentureBeat article.
