UCLA CEE faculty, UC colleagues urge President-Elect to continue climate protections
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty members and UC colleagues penned a letter to President-Elect Donald Trump, urging him to continue sensible measures to address climate change, considering it poses critical...
Big data and bioinformatics leader Wei Wang named Kleinrock Chair
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Computer science professor Wei Wang, known for research that brings big data solutions to the biomedical sciences, has been appointed the Leonard Kleinrock Term Chair at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and...
Huffington Post: Mona Jarrahi on how terahertz research could impact medicine, security and more
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Mona Jarrahi, associate professor of electrical engineering, was recently interviewed in the Huffington Post as part of an ongoing interview series from the West Asia Council highlighting prominent Iranian Americans making...
UCLA researchers combat antimicrobial resistance using smartphones
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A simple, inexpensive attachment could help to expand testing to regions with limited resources A team of UCLA researchers has developed an automated diagnostic test reader for antimicrobial resistance using a smartphone....
Ozcan receives inaugural Medal of Science from Turkey’s Koç University
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor's Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, has been granted Koç University's inaugural Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science, in recognition for his work on telemedicine technology that...
‘Turbocharged artificial intelligence’ could personalize combination therapy in pediatric leukemia
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA team’s digital health platform is capable of optimizing efficacy and safety during chemotherapy A team of UCLA bioengineers has demonstrated that its technology may go a long way toward overcoming the challenges of...
UCLA team makes step toward long-lasting, fast-charging and high-powered energy storage
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Promising advance could lead to laptop computers that fully charge in minutes, last for hours A UCLA research team has made a major advance toward developing oxide supercapacitors, energy-storage devices that would combine...
UCLA researchers teach computer to read the internet
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Sifting through nearly 2 million posts, their algorithm could identify an underlying narrative Teaching computers to read is one thing. But by designing an algorithm that examined nearly 2 million posts from two popular...
Four UCLA Engineering faculty named IEEE Fellows
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Four faculty members of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been elected as Fellows of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for...