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“A team of six UCLA faculty members spanning artificial intelligence, computer science and mathematics has received a $250,000 seed grant from the Laude Institute as part of its inaugural Moonshots initiative, which supports university-led efforts to solve some of humanity’s hardest, undiscovered problems.

The UCLA team was one of just eight selected from 125 proposals by more than 600 researchers across 47 institutions in the U.S. and Canada, as announced by the Laude Institute today. Led by Amit Sahai, a professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, other UCLA computer scientists include professor Raghu Meka, department chair Wei Wang, and associate professors Kai-Wei Chang and Nanyun (Violet) Peng. Terence Tao, a UCLA mathematics professor and director of special projects at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, is part of the team as well.”

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