UCLA Bioengineers Develop Artificial Chip for Testing How Drugs Interact with Ion Channels
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: Ion channels, proteins embedded in cell membranes, are central to many of the human body's physiological processes, including cardiac activity. For this reason, they are...
UCLA Engineering Part of a New NSF “Expeditions in Computing” Team
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is part of a team of researchers just awarded $10 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make computer programming...
In Memoriam: Computer Science Pioneer Gerald Estrin
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]by Cynthia Lee and Matthew Chin Gerald (Jerry) Estrin, a professor emeritus at UCLA who worked as a research engineer on one of the earliest computers, died March 29, 2012, at his home in Santa Monica at age 90. Many of...
Cyber Security Q and A
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Cyber Security Q and A with Rafail Ostrovsky, professor of computer science and mathematics and director of the Center for Information & Computation Security (CICS) Can you describe some of major current issues in...
Highlights of the 2012 Tech Forum
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The 2012 UCLA Engineering Tech Forum, held recently at Covel Commons on the UCLA campus, hosted more than 300 enthusiastic attendees, including industry representatives faculty, students, and alumni. This year’s theme...
UCLA Engineering Researchers use Electricity to Generate Alternative Fuel
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]by Wileen Wong Kromhout Imagine being able to use electricity to power your car — even if it's not an electric vehicle. Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first...
Judea Pearl Wins ACM Turing Award for Contributions that Transformed Artificial Intelligence
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Pearl Developed Novel Framework for Reasoning under Uncertainty that Changed How Scientists Approach Real World Problems NEW YORK, March 15, 2012 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org today named...
Professor receives NSF CAREER Award for key research on massive data storage and processing
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Lara Dolecek, a UCLA assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The NSF CAREER award is the organization’s most...
Electrical Engineering Professor receives Sloan Research Fellowship
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Jin Hyung Lee, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science; with joint appointments in psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences; and...