UCLA Engineering Celebrates 80th Anniversary and 25 Years as the Samueli School More than 250 alumni, faculty, students and industry representatives gathered on campus Saturday, Oct. 11, for tech talks, award presentations and student club showcases to commemorate the engineering school’s 80th year and the 25th anniversary of its naming in honor of triple alumnus Henry Samueli.
UCLA Samueli Announces the 2025 UCLA Samueli Awardees Among the awardees is Fang Lu M.S. ’88, Engr. ’89, Ph.D. ’92, a fellow and longtime technical director at Broadcom Inc., who received the Alumnus of the Year award, the school’s highest honor.
Sustainable Generative AI: UCLA Develops Novel Light-Based System Led by Aydogan Ozcan, the Volgenau Professor of Engineering Innovation and a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of bioengineering, the advance in optical computing may lead to ultrafast and secure image generators while using less energy.
"Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Study Reveals How Mice and AI Learn to Cooperate In a study conducted by UCLA researchers, including associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science Jonathan Kao, both mice and AI neural networks developed similar behavioral strategies, indicating similarities between biological and technological learning patterns.
Building Resilient Utilities: UCLA Issues Report on Key Water and Power Infrastructure Needs More than 100 engineers (including civil and environmental engineering professor Ertugrul Taciroglu and materials science and engineering professor Ali Mosleh), utility leaders, scientists and public officials shared innovative strategies and emerging technologies that could build more resilient infrastructure.
Experienced Thought Leaders Join UCLA TDG Board of Directors UCLA Samueli Dean Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park is one of three leaders appointed to the UCLA Technology Development Group’s Board of Directors, ensuring robust guidance for the university's thriving innovation ecosystem.
UCLA Experts: Cybersecurity Awareness Month To kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, UCLA highlighted top scholars in the field, including three UCLA Samueli faculty members in electrical and computer engineering: assistant professor Nader Sehatbakhsh, associate professor Yuan Tian and professor John Villasenor, who co-directs the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy — a joint institute between UCLA School of Law and UCLA Samueli.
Exclusive: AI Writing Hasn't Overwhelmed the Web Yet
Computer science professor Stefano Soatto shares his perspective on the amount of online content generated by humans versus artificial intelligence, explaining that many webpages are created through a combination of AI and human effort, which is hard to distinguish.
Coco Robotics Taps UCLA Professor to Lead New Physical AI Research Lab Bolei Zhou, an associate professor of computer science, has been appointed chief AI scientist and will lead a lab guiding advances in automatic AI navigation using data gathered by Coco delivery robots. The company was co-founded by UCLA Samueli alumni Zach Rash and Brad Squicciarini.
Laying the Foundation for America’s Space Future
Prineha Narang, a professor of physical sciences with a joint appointment in electrical and computer engineering, co-writes a column advocating for federal space policy reform that would make it easier for private industry to launch satellites and implement space-based technological solutions. This will help American entrepreneurs remain competitive in the global market.
What You Need to Know When Sending Kids Back to a Fire-Impacted School
Associate professor Sanjay Mohanty of civil and environmental engineering shares his insight on post-wildfire remediation efforts, saying soil toxin levels at schools in the L.A. area are now comparable to those before the January fire.
Tony Pritzker’s Patient Strategy for the Planet Philanthropist and UCLA donor Tony Pritzker highlights the climate leadership of Gaurav Sant, the Pritzker Professor of Sustainability and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA Samueli. Sant leads the Institute for Carbon Management, which focuses on scaling lab research to curb climate change.
From UCLA Student Clubs to SpaceX: How One Electrical Engineer Launched Her Career Sarah Wilen ’23, M.S. ’24 chose to study engineering at UCLA because she wanted to build a strong technical foundation for addressing business needs. Today, Wilen is an Avionics Test Engineer II at SpaceX, a role she started while completing her master’s in electrical engineering with a certificate in data science.
