AI is advancing faster than ever. Join Praveen Krishna, chair of the AI Program Advisory Board, for a discussion of the latest developments shaping the field, from Agentic AI and AI orchestration to enterprise deployment, emerging regulations, local AI models, and breakthrough innovations. This is a monthly conversation series. Each session highlights timely trends and concludes […]
Working Hard Isn’t Enough: The Unspoken Rules That Shape Your Career With Ricky Koo Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026 | Noon PT Virtual via Zoom Hosted by UCLA Alumni Association, open to all UC alumni As a first-generation immigrant, career coach Ricky Koo was taught to work hard, stay humble, and let results speak. Sound familiar? […]
As datacenters scale up and become more geographically distributed, wide-area network inter-datacenter traffic, which typically consists of data-heavy tasks, has become increasingly prevalent. Some of the noteworthy challenges raised by the coexistence and interaction between inter- and intra-datacenter traffic are the differences in their QoS requirements, link utilization, and round-trip times. To the best of […]
The rapid electrification of transportation is creating new interdependencies between power and transportation systems, particularly during extreme events and disasters. As electric vehicle (EV) adoption increases, evacuation-related charging demand, infrastructure disruptions, and limited access to energy resources introduce challenges that conventional power system planning and operation frameworks were not designed to address. Wildfires provide a […]
Medical image representation has long been dominated by voxel-grid matrices. While their inherent structure and order work efficiently for various linear transformations and provide a seamless visualization method on monitors, they fail to preserve the topology of the scan and to encode sparse information in a memory-efficient way. The recent emergence of machine learning-based continuous coordinate-based […]
Genomes are often viewed as cooperative systems in which genes work together to support organismal function. Yet genetic elements can also act in ways that favor their own transmission or persistence, creating conflict within the genome. In this talk, I examine the evolutionary and functional consequences of such genomic conflict across three systems. First, I […]
Join us for an interactive discussion on current industry trends, emerging skills, and career opportunities, and learn how our Silicon Chip Design & Semiconductor Engineering courses are designed to help professionals build expertise, stay competitive, and achieve their educational and career goals. Whether you’re looking to advance in your current role, transition into a new field, or […]
This thesis explores iterative methods for solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), which are used in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model a wide range of physical phenomena. The primary application of interest here is self-gravity, modeled by Poisson’s equation. Although many numerical approaches exist, including direct matrix inversion, FFT-based methods, and classical iterative methods […]
Deep learning models trained on simulation and reanalysis data can now emulate turbulent geophysical flows at a small fraction of the computational cost of numerical solvers. Their scientific utility depends on physical consistency, which for the systems studied here rests in large part on spectral fidelity, the accurate reconstruction of variance across spatial scales. This […]
Host-microbe systems are core to some of biology’s most consequential interactions, from the pathogens that drive infectious disease to symbionts affecting agricultural pest control and vector-borne disease transmission. Yet unlike the model organisms that have driven most of modern molecular biology, the microbes at the center of these interactions are rarely genetically tractable: many cannot […]
Interested in becoming a Special Education Teacher Assistant? Join us for an informative session to explore the courses designed to prepare you for success in inclusive and special education classrooms. We’ll provide an overview of the curriculum, discuss current industry trends and workforce demand, highlight career opportunities, and answer your questions about getting started. Your […]
Join UC Santa Cruz Healthcare Pathways for a live online information session to learn about our Premed Postbacc Cohort, Premed and Pre-Health DIY Pathways, and other program offerings. We’ll provide an overview of our programs and cover how to apply for our next admissions cycle, which opens August 7. We’ll also discuss the application process, admissions timeline, […]
This PhD research focuses on developing reliable medical foundation models capable of reasoning across textual, visual, and interactive clinical information. The work investigates three complementary directions: improving medical reasoning through test-time scaling, training multimodal medical models with verifiable rewards, and synthesizing high-quality visual question-answering data from biomedical literature using generator-verifier frameworks. Building on these efforts, […]
Modern autonomous-driving models increasingly rely on learned representations and generated reasoning to interpret complex scenes and produce predictions or actions. However, it remains unclear what information these models encode, how that information is exposed through common interpretation methods, and whether their stated reasoning meaningfully influences their behavior. This research investigates these questions across motion-forecasting and […]
Join us for an inside look at how our AI Application Development courses provide hands‑on experience, industry‑driven projects, and the technical foundation you need to advance your career as an ML Engineer, MLOps Engineer, or Applied AI Researcher. Your speaker Kavitha Velusamy, Ph.D., brings more than 20 years of experience developing cutting-edge technologies at Amazon, NVIDIA, Cisco, […]
In March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz Utils, a widely used open source data compression library present in nearly every major Linux distribution. The attack was discovered days before merging into major distributions, and if this had happened, it would have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on millions of systems worldwide via […]
Design digital experiences people love to use. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, organizations need professionals who can combine empathy, usability, and aesthetics to create interfaces that engage and delight users. Learn how UX and web design specialists use research‑driven methods, prototyping tools, and inclusive design principles to build seamless digital experiences across platforms. Speaker […]
Where biology meets Big Data Join us for an inside look at how our Bioinformatics courses can help you strengthen your skills in data analysis, genomics, and software tools—preparing you to contribute to advances in biotech, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare. We’ll provide an overview of the curriculum, discuss current industry trends and workforce demand, highlight career […]
Where biology meets Big Data Join us for an inside look at how our Bioinformatics courses can help you strengthen your skills in data analysis, genomics, and software tools—preparing you to contribute to advances in biotech, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare. We’ll provide an overview of the curriculum, discuss current industry trends and workforce demand, highlight career […]
Embedded Systems: Build the Intelligence Behind the Hardware Join Juergen Kienhoefer to explore the foundations of embedded systems and how firmware powers the devices we use every day—plus get an introduction to how AI is transforming the field. Learn how our UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Embedded Systems courses prepare you to develop low-level software, interface with hardware […]