Healthcare - Diagnostics/Imaging, Tools, Modeling/Monitoring
Jun Chen
Achuta Kadambi
Achuta Kadambi (PhD, MIT ‘18) is a tenured Associate Professor at UCLA in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He leads an AI research group that focuses on computer vision and spatial intelligence. He has co-founded two California companies: Akasha Imaging (acquired in 2022, now with Alphabet) and Vayu Robotics (acquired in 2025, now with Nasdaq: SERV).
He is the recipient of early career awards including from NSF (CAREER), DARPA (YFA), ARO (YIP), IEEE (HKN under 35 award), and Forbes (30 under 30). He is an inventor on 40+ issued US patents and has recently co-authored a textbook on computational imaging, published by the MIT Press.
Demetri Terzopoulos
Majid Sarrafzadeh
Jason Ernst
Jason (Jingsheng) Cong
Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence
Director, Center for Customizable Domain-Specific Computing
Director, VLSI Architecture, Synthesis, and Technology (VAST) Laboratory (former VLSI CAD Laboratory)
JASON CONG received his B.S. degree in computer science from Peking University in 1985, his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence in the UCLA Computer Science Department (with joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), the Director of Center for Domain-Specific Computing (funded by NSF Expeditions in Computing Award), and the director of VLSI Architecture, Synthesis, and Technology (VAST) Laboratory. He served as the chair of the UCLA Computer Science Department from 2005 to 2008. He was elected to an IEEE Fellow in 2000, an ACM Fellow in 2008, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020.
William Kaiser
Sam Emaminejad
Joseph DiStefano
Joe joined the UCLA Engineering faculty in 1966, Medicine faculty in 1970, Computer Science faculty in 1982 and became chair of the undergrad Cybernetics Interdepartmental Program (IDP) in 1981. He Chairs the undergrad Computational & Systems Biology IDP, the Computational Systems Biology grad program in Computer Science, Co-Chairs the Biosystem Science and Engineering Major in the Biomedical Engineering graduate IDP and directs the UCLA Biocybernetics Research Laboratory.
Abeer Alwan
