NSF video illustrates IDRE Executive Committee member Andrea Bertozzi’s Research Group’s work on PredPol, a set of algorithms based on earthquake science that pinpoints the location of potential crimes before…
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The Mathematics of Creativity
While her grade-school classmates were learning the alphabet and how to count to five, Andrea Bertozzi remembers studying negative numbers and modular arithmetic. Math often gets a bad rap as…
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Professor’s Pioneering Research Aims to Democratize Circuit Design
You probably don’t want a doctor who is a general practitioner to perform your open heart surgery. While both a general practitioner and a cardiothoracic surgeon have extensive medical training,…
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What’s to Come: The Science of Epigenetics
Each June, thousands of UCLA students graduate and find themselves thrust out of the familiar university environment. Some have secured full-time jobs, others acceptance to graduate schools, and for many…
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Model: Impossible – How The Marian Group at UCLA Visualizes the Unknown
Imagine stepping into your lab to find that you have captured your very own star on which to conduct research. It’s a nice thought, but housing what amounts to an…
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Cybersecurity Expert Reveals How He Hacks the Hackers
It’s safe to say that hacking has recently blown up on the international stage. However, University of Arizona Regents’ Professor Dr. Hsinchun Chen, who is also the founder and director…
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The Hacker Web Project: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web
The new celebrity doesn’t exist on the big screen or even the silver screen—hackers exist on your personal computer screens. The topic of hacking has blown up on the international…
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Finding a Sense of Place with GIS
Although IDRE Technologist Yoh Kawano has spent more than two decades working with geographic information systems (GIS) – technology designed to help visualize, analyze, and interpret data – he said…
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Visualizing the Cost of Incarceration in L.A.
A Collaboration Between IDRE, UCLA Faculty, and Community-Based Organizations Policing and mass incarceration are two issues that have sent currents of activism, debate, and calls for change from the American…
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IDRE Early Career Researcher’s Group Opens Call for Abstracts
The IDRE Early Career Researcher’s (ECR) Group* aims to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines and methodological perspectives interested in advancing cross-disciplinary research in computational and data sciences…
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