3 UCLA Professors Receive Distinguished Engineering Educator Award
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering professors have been named the 2026 Distinguished Engineering Educator Award recipients by the Engineers’ Council.
Sergio Carbajo Awarded 2026 Optica Adolph Lomb Medal
The leading international professional society for optics and photonics researchers and leaders, Optica, has named Sergio Carbajo, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering
Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park and Aydin Babakhani Elected Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors
Two UCLA Samueli School of Engineering faculty members, Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park and Aydin Babakhani, have been named senior members
Cryptography Pioneer and UCLA Samueli Computer Science Professor Amit Sahai Named IEEE Fellow
Amit Sahai, a professor of computer science and holder of the Symantec Term Chair in Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been named a fellow of
UCLA Engineering Professor M.C. Frank Chang Receives John Fritz Medal for Chip Innovations
Mau-Chung Frank Chang, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and holder of the Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering
Nanotech Manufacturing Pioneer and UCLA Engineering Professor Xiaochun Li Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Xiaochun Li, a professor in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors granted to American engineers.
Bridging Technical Rigor and Corporate Strategy: A Bruin Engineer Shares Early Lessons in Numbers, Community and Leadership
Christian Duncan ’03 did not learn his first math lessons in a classroom; it was at a hotel.
Civil Engineering Transfer Student Reflects on the Importance of Mentorship and Representation
Rania Gomaa-Mersal was fascinated by bridges at a young age, but her struggles with chemistry and calculus in high school prompted her to initially rule out pursuing a college degree in engineering.
UCLA Launches SoCal Quantum Alliance to Accelerate Quantum Innovation and Workforce Development
California took another step toward its quantum future today as UCLA announced the creation of the SoCal Quantum Alliance (SQA)