AI framework developed by UCLA professor now powers Toyota websites
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Adnan Darwiche’s invention helps consumers customize their vehicles online By Matthew Chin An innovation in artificial intelligence that was described in a 2001 paper by a UCLA computer science professor has found a...
UCLA-led team develops new method to study mitochondrial DNA diseases
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The process utilizes a nanoblade that can open holes in cell membranes By Matthew Chin A UCLA-led team of researchers has demonstrated a new method to conduct research on mitochondrial DNA diseases — a broad group of...
Tiny optical frequency clock measures time accurately to 270 quintillionths of a second
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Device developed at UCLA Engineering could be used for improved timing, attosecond physics and measuring universal constants By Matthew Chin Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science...
$1 million gift endows chair in name of former dean Vijay Dhir
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A group of nearly 100 donors has come together to give $1 million to create the Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, in honor of the school’s former dean....
UCLA medical and engineering experts team up to improve health care
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have formed a new center whose mission is to improve the quality and reliability of new...
Computer Science Student Named Goldwater Scholar
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Iris Cong, a junior studying computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a 2016 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education...
Students, Alumni Named 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellows
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Four UCLA Engineering students and five alumni now at other institutions have received the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for 2016. The recipients include current graduate...
Internet Research Incubator offers UCLA undergraduates $15,000 prizes
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Calling all UCLA undergraduates: the Internet Research Incubator offers you a year-long research opportunity and $15,000. The newly established Internet Research Incubator will provide up to 12 UCLA undergraduate students...
Researchers develop new drug combination technique to improve TB treatment
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Researchers from UCLA and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have made an important step toward a substantially faster and more effective treatment for tuberculosis, which infects some 10 million people and causes 1.5 million...