Taiwan-born UCLA professor awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship
02/18/2021 08:39 PM
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Los Angeles, Feb. 17 (CNA) Chang Kai-wei (張凱崴), an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has been granted a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship by the university s Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for his research into artificial intelligence (AI).
Chang, 35, an assistant professor of computer science at UCLA s Samueli School of Engineering, conducts broad research into AI, machine learning and natural language processing, the university said in a statement issued on Feb. 16. With the exponential growth of text data available in various domains, language processing techniques have been incorporated into many real-world applications used by billions around the world, the statement said.
Pearl’s research will focus on transforming data science from its current paradigm, “data fitting,” to one that leads to robust and useful data interpretation.
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January 20, 2021
Nicolaos Alexopoulos, former chair of the electrical engineering department, and his wife, Sue Curtis Alexopoulos, have given a substantial gift to the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the study of Hellenic culture. The gift is in memory of Nicolaos’ brother, Aristides Alexopoulos.
The Aristides G. Alexopoulos Endowed Student Fund will provide assistance in the form of small grants to students in financial need, with preference given to undergraduate and graduate students of Hellenic descent or with parents of Greek citizenship. These grants will help students achieve their academic or professional goals as well as overcome unexpected challenges.
January 13, 2021
The Association for Computing Machinery’s fellows program recognizes the top 1% of the association’s members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to the association and the larger computing community. Fellows are nominated by their peers, with nominations reviewed by a distinguished selection committee.
One of the 95 new fellows, Wang was selected for her “contributions to the foundation and practice of data mining.” Her research interests include big data analytics, database systems, natural language processing, bioinformatics, computational biology and computational medicine.
Wang is the director of the Scalable Analytics Institute at UCLA Engineering and has a joint appointment in the department of computational medicine, an affiliated department with UCLA Engineering and the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She is a member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Insti
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To help remove the massive amount of carbon dioxide that has accumulated in the atmosphere, “we’ve got to draw inspiration from nature,” says UCLA’s Gaurav Sant.
Most experts agree that halting climate change and the global warming, extreme heat events and stronger storms that come with it will require the removal of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. But with humans pumping out an estimated 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, current strategies for capturing it seem likely to fall short.
Now, a UCLA research team has proposed a pathway that could help extract billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. Instead of directly capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide, the technology would extract it from seawater, enabling the seawater to absorb more. Why? Because, per unit volume, seawater holds nearly 150 times more carbon dioxide than air.