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Recent Developments in Archaeology with Willeke Wendrich
This month we catch up with Willeke Wendrich, IDRE board member, on some of the technology, developments, and highlights in the field of Archeology. Wendrich is editor in chief of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE), an online database for archaeologists. She also serves as Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archeology. The Cotsen Institute…
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Evolution of drug safety research during COVID-19
As a relatively new path of pathology, COVID-19 brings much uncertainty about its effects on the safety and efficiency of drug treatments. Ever since the pandemic unfolded, researchers across the nation quickly needed to answer challenging questions. Marc Suchard, IDRE Board member, is one such biostatistician who strives to answer these inquiries. We interviewed him…
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Warren Mori selected for prestigious 2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize
Warren Mori, IDRE Executive Director, was awarded by the American Physical Society (APS) for the 2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics. Troy Cater, physics professor and director of the Plasma Science and Technology Institute, and a colleague of Mori’s called the award a “tremendous…
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Professor receives AWS award for machine learning research
Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, was awarded the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Research Award. Since 2017, these quarterly awards are granted to faculty, doctoral candidates and graduate students who research create open source tools and contribute to the machine learning community. Gu’s statistical…
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