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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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Mathematics professor forecasts college campus reopenings and demystifies epidemic modeling
The COVID-19 virus first tore through the United States more than five months ago, and scientists across the nation are rushing to forecast case and death rates as communities and businesses reopen. Professor Andrea Bertozzi, an IDRE Executive Board member, is lending her mathematical modeling expertise to the fight against coronavirus. Bertozzi and her fellow…
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UCLA leads new NSF $25 million quantum computing institute
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $25 million to a UC-headed research group to create the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Present and Future Quantum Computation. The goal of the institute is to actualize a long-awaited sci-fi movie fantasy: quantum computing. Quantum computers will offer a sheer boost of computing power, that will help…
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Early Career Research Day winner improves neural network training for biological research
IDRE’s Early Career Research Day recognized Shawn Schwartz’s research, High-Throughput Phenoscaping Using Deep Learning for Accurate Automatic Instance Segmentation of Fish Images, as one of the top four posters presented. More than 80 researchers participated in the poster session event with 40 high-quality research posters on November 20, 2019. Schwartz, a UCLA Ecology and Evolutionary…
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IDRE Early Career Research Day winners seek to preserve genocidal testimonies’ validity through quantitative data
IDRE’s Early Career Research Day recognized Anna Bonazzi and Lizhou Fan’s research, Language Use and Narrative Structures in Genocide Interviews via Digital Humanities, as one of the top four posters presented. More than 80 researchers participated in the poster session event with 40 high-quality research posters on November 20, 2019. Bonazzi and Fan’s research aims…
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IDRE Early Career Research Day Winner uses statistical machine learning to improve space weather forecasting
IDRE’s Early Career Research Day recognized Colin Wilkins’ research, Tracing the Flow of Information in the Coupled Sun-Earth Space System, as one of the top four posters presented. More than 80 researchers participated in the poster session event with 40 high-quality research posters on November 20, 2019. Wilkins’ research aims to improve the predictive capabilities…
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