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It gives us great pleasure to inform everyone that the Distinguished Teaching Award Selection Committee has selected Professor Jeff Eldredge for this year’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Sen...

https://www.mae.ucla.edu/jeff-eldredge-selected-for-uclas-2024-distinguished-teaching-award/

AIAA at UCLA hosted a successful and productive 2024 MAE Town Hall on January 17th, bringing together students and faculty to communicate and work together, taking on student concerns as opportu...

https://www.mae.ucla.edu/successful-2024-mae-town-hall/

Professor CJ Kim, in collaboration with Prof. Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz at UC Santa Barbara, has won a $1M (18 months) research award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Manage...

https://www.mae.ucla.edu/professor-cj-kim-in-collaboration-with-ucsb-awarded-a-1m-research-award-from-the-defense-advanced-research-projects-agency-darpa/

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates met with UCLA Prof. Dennis Hong, director of RoMeLa, to discuss how robots can play a critical role in improving health care, hospitality, agriculture, manufacturi...

https://www.mae.ucla.edu/microsoft-co-founder-bill-gates-met-with-ucla-prof-dennis-hong-director-of-romela-to-discuss-robots-on-gates-notes/

Team RoMeLa wins 3rd Place at “RoboCup 2023” held in Bordeaux, France, July 4 -10, 2023. RoboCup is a prestigious international competition for autonomous soccer robots. The official goal of ...

https://www.mae.ucla.edu/team-romela-wins-3rd-place-at-robocup-2023-held-in-bordeaux-france-july-4-10-2023/

Robotics lab RoMeLa unveils a fully automated cooking robot YORI with live cooking demonstrations at the 2023 Global Food-Tech Conference in Seoul, Korea, July 26, 2023. * Newspaper article (Kore...

https://www.mae.ucla.edu/robotics-lab-romela-unveils-a-fully-automated-cooking-robot-yori-with-live-cooking-demonstrations-at-the-2023-global-food-tech-conference-in-seoul-korea-july-26-2023/

Team RoMeLa wins the “2023 International Humanoid Locomotion Competition” held at the International IEEE Humanoid Conference 2023 (Austin, TX, Dec 12-14) with the world’s fastest humanoid r...

https://www.mae.ucla.edu/team-romela-wins-the-2023-international-humanoid-locomotion-competition-held-at-the-international-ieee-humanoid-conference-2023-austin-tx-dec-12-14-with-the-worlds-faste/

Professor M’Closkey’s “An electrostatically suspended contactless platform,” Mechatronics 80 (2021), received the International Federation of Automatic Control Mechatronics Paper Prize 20...

https://www.mae.ucla.edu/professor-mcloskey-mechatronics-an-electrostatically-suspended-contactless-platform-receives-ifac-paper-prize/

A paper from Professor Jawed’s lab was published in the Physical Review Letters . In this paper, the team proposes a machine learning technique to quickly learn about a dynamical system by effi...

https://www.mae.ucla.edu/paper-from-prof-jaweds-lab-selected-as-editors-suggestion-by-physical-review-letters/

Soft Matter Emerging Investigators Series Professor Lihua Jin has been featured as an Emerging Investigator by Soft Matter, in regards to her “Rate-dependent stress-order coupling in main-chain...

https://www.mae.ucla.edu/professor-lihua-jin-featured-as-an-emerging-investigator-in-soft-matter/