Latest Research News
Internet Pioneer Leonard Kleinrock Elected to National Academy of Science
Distinguished professor emeritus Leonard Kleinrock of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The academy announced its 2024 class of 120 new members and 24 international members at its annual...
Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng Receives NSF CAREER Award
Congratulations to Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng on receiving the NSF CAREER Award. Language models (LMs) are fundamental to most natural language processing (NLP) applications today. However, prevalent auto-regressive models, which predict the next word based on...
5 UCLA faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Five UCLA faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Ann Carlson, Jason Cong, Tyrone Howard, Thomas Smith and Paul Taylor are among 250 artists, scholars, scientists and...
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Faculty members discuss impact of AI on academic research
More than 150 UCLA faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students attended or tuned in to the livestream of Research in the Age of AI Symposium, which was held Feb. 15 at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. “This is really going to change the...
UCLA’s online engineering master’s program again ranked No. 1 in the U.S.
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s online master’s degree program has earned the No. 1 ranking in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 survey of the nation’s best online graduate engineering programs. This is the second year in a row — and the sixth time in 10...
UCLA ranked No. 1 Public University
Key takeaways UCLA pulls off a striking seventh consecutive top ranking, landing the No. 1 spot among public universities on U.S. News’ 2024 “Best Colleges” list. The campus was again ranked the No. 1 public university for veterans. The university vaulted from No. 20...
