IDRE welcomes six new board members this year. They will contribute to IDRE’s mission by providing vision, oversight, and strategic planning for advanced digitally-enabled research and education, and by representing the faculty voice in innovative, computationally-intensive research at UCLA. About the Members: Martha BaileyMartha Bailey is a professor of economics at UCLA and a research…
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Call for Papers or Presentations: Tigrinya Language Digital Initiatives
Call for Papers or Presentations: Tigrinya Language Digital Initiatives ዕድመ ንምቕራብ ስነ ምርምራዊ ጽሑፋት ወይ ኣስተምህሮ፡ ኣብ ጉባኤ ዲጂታዊ ተበግሶታት ቋንቋ ትግርኛ UCLA ASC and IDRE are extending calls for Papers and Presentations on Digital Initiatives relating to the Tigrinya language. Scholars and experts in African-Semitic Languages, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), AI (Artificial Intelligence),…
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IDRE Scholars – Call for Applications
May 20, 2021 Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) Post-Doctoral Fellowships – Call for Applications UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education invites applications for Post-Doctoral fellowships. These IDRE fellowships will provide partial support for research conducted in the academic year 2021-21 and related to the IDRE programs, including projects involving advanced computing, GPU and many core-based…
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IDRE Funding Opportunity for Summer/Fall Workshops and Seminars – Call for Proposal
Dear Colleagues, The Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is soliciting proposals for Summer/Fall quarter workshops and seminars focused on topics that impact digitally-enabled research at UCLA. Events could address research challenges, emerging methodologies, software or tools, computational questions, or advances in hardware and infrastructure. The program’s goals are to address critical research issues,…
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Early Career Research Project Site Launch
New space for early UCLA researchers to highlight their projects.
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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