Kai Fukami and Kunihiko Taira reveal a low-rank manifold of extreme aerodynamics with machine learning and computational fluid dynamics
UCLA MAE Ph.D. student Kai Fukami and his supervisor Professor Kunihiko Taira have recently discovered a low-dimensional manifold that captures the dynamics behind a wide range of extreme aerodynamic scenarios with spatiotemporal high degrees of freedom by leveraging...
Navigating Increasing Temperatures in LA
Heat waves and dangerously high temperatures are becoming more common as a consequence of climate change. As access to AC is becoming a necessity as a result, Los Angeles renters are facing issues as many apartments don’t have air conditioning installed. ...
UCLA Engineers Unveil Algorithm for Robotic Sensing and Movement
A trio of UCLA engineers has developed a new computational procedure that allows autonomous robots to perceive, map and adjust to their environments more quickly and accurately
Race to the Finish
If it hadn’t been for its muffler, a Bruin-built racing car that corners faster than a Porsche might have won the NASCAR Clash at the Los Angeles Coliseum in February. A 9-foot-long blue rocket, the car was so, so close to that checkered flag. Instead, for want of a widget, the muffler came loose — allowing those crosstown rivals from the University of Southern California to take the race…
Min Jong Kil wins Itherm Best Paper Award
Min Jong Kil, a 2nd year ME Ph.D. student in UCLA MAE Professor Tim Fisher’s Nanoscale Transport Research Group lab, won the Itherm Best Paper Award. The paper is "Direct Solar-Thermal Formation of Graphitic Heat Spreaders on Organic Substrates". The paper was...
Vedasri Godavarthi awarded a Zonta International Amelia Earhart (AE) Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year
Vedasri Godavarthi was awarded a Zonta International Amelia Earhart (AE) Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Godavarthi is part of UCLA MAE Prof. Sam Taira’s research group. The Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship is awarded to about 30 women a year...
Lihua Jin awarded the 2023 ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award
UCLA MAE Assistant Professor Lihua Jin was awarded the 2023 ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award. Prof. Jin was selected to receive the 2023 ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award "for unraveling coupled non-equilibrium processes in stimuli-responsive soft...
Lihua Jin selected for the 2023 PMSE Early Stage Investigator Award
UCLA MAE Assistant Professor Lihua Jin was selected for the 2023 PMSE Early Stage Investigator Award. From https://pmsedivision.org/early-investigator-symposium/: The twenty five members of the 2023 PMSE Early Stage Investigators class are a collective group of...
Dennis Hong’s ARTEMIS highlighted by Reuters, others
ARTEMIS, a Soccer-Playing Humanoid Robot, is Ready for the Pitch The second largest wire service in the world highlighted Dennis Hong, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, on his full-sized...