By Kristen Ventura IDRE’s Early Career Research Day recognized Evan Maltz’s research, Decoding NF-kB Dynamics Using a High-Throughput, Information-Based Approach, 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. The research aims to determine the dependency…
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This workshop series is to present overviews to the exciting deep learning techniques and to provide a practical guide for general audience to step into the field. It will be primarily appropriate for the beginners who want to learn the techniques and apply to their future research activities. Researchers with deep learning experiences are expected…
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On Friday, November 1, 2019, UCLA faculty members Timothy R. Tangherlini, Beth Glenn, Catherine Crespi, Roshan Bastani and Vwani Roychowdhury organized an all-day symposium, “Addressing the Vaccine Crisis: The Digital World, Big Data and Public Health”. This one-day symposium, hosted by UCLA faculty from Engineering, Humanities and Public Health and sponsored by IDRE, focused attention on this potentially broad-ranging crisis. The symposium synthesized different perspectives on  the vaccine crisis…
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On November 20, the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) hosted Early Career Research Day at the UCLA Faculty Center. The hugely successful event was coordinated by Warren Mori, TV Singh, and Joanne Fife. They organized a buffet lunch followed by a poster session. The event was open to member of the UCLA community who are…
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Five early career researchers were recently selected for the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards. Applicants were nominated by their faculty sponsors and the recipients were then selected by a committee comprised of several IDRE Executive Committee members. They were hand-picked based on their proposals’ merit featuring innovative and computationally based…
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Article provide by Department of Energy. Watch the live stream of Secretary Perry announces the Energy Department will build Aurora, a new exascale supercomputer. Watch a recording of the announcement.  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – Intel Corporation and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will build the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the United…
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By Jacelyn O’Neill 42,000 new cases of liver cancer are diagnosed every year in the US, which has more than tripled since 1980. The American Cancer society estimates 30,000 people die from liver disease every year and the death rate has continued to increase over the last 18 years. Currently, there are not any recommended…
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By Jacelyn O’Neill Frank S. Tsung (Researcher, UCLA Physics & Astronomy) and Warren Mori (Professor, Physics & Astronomy) are Principal Investigators of the project “Petascale Simulations of Kinetic Effects in Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) Plasmas” which was one of just 62 awarded an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact Theory and Experiment or INCITE grant from the…
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