Dr. Masaki Nasada: Masaki Nasada obtained his Bachelor’s degree in applied physics in 2009 and his Master’s degree in pure and applied physics in 2011 from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He then obtained his Ph.D. in computer science in 2017 from University of California Los Angeles, and his current research is centered on artificial…
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2019 Spring Quarter Workshops and Training Sessions
UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is excited to announce our 2019 Spring Quarter Workshops and Training Sessions. How to register: Click on the links below, or on the attached PDF. Or visit: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar. April XSEDE HPC Workshop: BIG DATA Tues., April 2 – Wed. April 3, Daily | 8 am – 2 pm Running Applications on…
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The Argonne National Laboratory Supercomputer will Enable High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence at Exascale by 2021
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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UCLA Researchers Received NIH Grant to Improve Non-invasive and More Cost-effective Cancer Screenings
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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UCLA Team Awarded INCITE Research Grant
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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UCLA IDRE 2019 Winter Training Courses & Workshops
UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is excited to announce our 2019 Winter Quarter Training Courses & Workshops. How to register: Click on the links below, or on the attached PDF. Or visit: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar. January Software Carpentry: Python for Researchers – Wed., Jan. 9 – Thurs. Jan. 10, Daily | 9 am – 4:30 pm Introduction to Statistical…
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UCLA Computational Medicine Call for Research Proposals on Medically Relevant Machine Learning in the Cloud powered by Amazon Web Services
Amazon and the UCLA Department of Computational Medicine are engaging in a partnership in Machine Learning in Biomedical Sciences. Supported by a gift from Amazon, the collaboration will enable UCLA researchers to utilize large-scale computational resources to advance machine learning research in medically relevant applications. We invite research proposals that leverage large-scale computing to develop…
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Battle of the Maps: UCLA vs USC
#UCLAGISDay2018 This annual event celebrates the usage of geographic information systems (GIS) technology in real-world applications that are making a difference to society. #UCLAGISDay2018 is organized by the UCLA Library, Department of Geography, and the Institute for Digital Research and Education. During this year’s event, “Battle of the Maps: UCLA vs USC,” the two campuses will…
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This year’s Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to a Python convert
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Paul M. Romer “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis” and William D. Nordhaus “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis. Read more about Paul M. Romer in This year’s Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to a Python convert article written by Dan Kopf in Quartz.
IDRE Invites Applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships
About the IDRE Postdoctoral Fellowships: These IDRE fellowships will provide partial support for: Research conducted in 2018-2019 Research related to IDRE programs, including projects involving advanced computing, GPU, and many core-based computing architectures, statistical computing, and data science and informatics, including deep learning, virtual reality, GIS, data visualization, and 3D modeling The IDRE fellows will have…
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