UCLA Computational Medicine is pleased to announce our newest degree program. The Data Science in Biomedicine MS is a fully online master’s program with an in-person option. The Data Science in Biomedicine MS provides training in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Data Mining, Algorithms, and Analytics with applications to Genomics, Electronic Health Records, and Medical Images.
Now accepting applications for Fall 2023 (deadline June 15th). For more information, please visit the program website:
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The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies is hiring a social media assistant to work with Assistant Professor Regan Patterson to help build and maintain a social media presence for the UCLA Engineering Environmental Justice Lab and other projects This is a good opportunity to develop experience with design, marketing, branding, and communications.
Please see the attached job description for further information. The position is open until filled so apply early.
Apply:
Students can apply by submitting a resume, cover letter, unofficial transcripts, and social media samples at bit.ly/workatITS.
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The Astin Community Engagement Scholars Program funds a select group of upper-division students who demonstrate a strong, ongoing commitment to community engagement and social change. The program is named for visionary UCLA higher education scholars Helen (“Lena”) and Alexander (“Sandy”) Astin to honor their nationally recognized body of research in the area of civic engagement. Those chosen to participate will receive a research scholarship of up to $10,000 during the 2023-24 academic year (based on need, as determined by the Financial Aid Office).
In partnership with the UCLA Labor Center, Labor Studies, and the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, students chosen as Astin Scholars will collaborate with community activists on a campaign to establish a public option for long term care in the state of California. As the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced, access to care is a vital public policy concern related to public health, the economy, and civil rights. Areas of examination may include expanded access to child care, paid family and medical leave, home care services for older adults, and the labor rights of care workers. Those with an interest in economic and gender justice, disability rights, and uncompensated labor, along with public health and public policy development are especially encouraged to apply. Students will learn skills of community engaged research, community organizing, advocacy, and policy formation, working alongside those fighting for public investment into long term care, including some who are current care givers.
Fall quarter will be spent learning about the principles and the practice of conducting community-engaged research. In winter quarter, undergraduates will learn about current efforts to secure a state-funded long term care policy, and will team with their research partners to design projects and begin collecting data. Spring quarter will be dedicated to analyzing data collected and sharing the teams’ findings. Each quarter, undergraduates will enroll in a 4-unit upper division course.
Applicants must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 in their major and have junior or senior standing in the fall of 2023.
Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. on May 21st, 2023. Students selected for an interview will be contacted via email.
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Synthetic data generation is a rapidly growing and highly interdisciplinary area that draws much attention from both academia and industry. For the development of algorithmic procedures for fraud detection and spam identification, as well as for the construction of AI-driven models in industries like manufacturing and supply chain management, synthetic data has become a valuable resource. The advantages of synthetic data include cost savings, increased speed, agility, increased intelligence, and cutting-edge privacy. According to the Gartner report, synthetic data will overshadow real data in training machine/deep learning models by 2030; see Figure below. Additionally, the MIT Technology Review named synthetic data as one of its top 10 game-changing innovations for 2022. Synthetic data is everywhere: image, text, graph and tabular data; it has different names: simulated data (for physical scientists); missing value imputation (for statisticians), and more recently, GAN (for computer scientists) etc. Therefore, it is believed that synthetic data generation will be an indispensable part of the next-generation machine learning workflow.
Despite numerous successful applications of synthetic data, its scientific foundation, e.g., the tradeoff among fidelity, utility, and privacy, is still missing. Additionally, industrial standards for generating and utilizing synthetic data are not fully developed. Furthermore, the privacy law on synthetic data is still in its infancy. Therefore, this workshop is to form a community of synthetic data researchers (from statistics, machine learning and mathematics), policymakers, and industrial partners, and bring them together to collaborate on the development of the theory, methodology, and algorithms needed to produce synthetic benchmark datasets and algorithms.
Travel support is available for junior participants (who received PhD degree after 2018), invited speakers and panel discussants. Registration fee will be reimbursed for participants that receive travel support.
Registration
Click here to register for the April 13th – 14th, 2023 UCLA synthetic data workshop.
The registration deadline is March 15th, 2023.
PLEASE NOTE: Submitting the above Google form DOES NOT guarantee a place in the workshop until the registration fee is paid. The registration fee link will become available in Feb. and we will inform those who registered via email then.
Accommodation
If you need accommodation, nearby options include the following local hotels.
Applications are now open to become readers for the Math Department in Spring 2023. As a reader, you will be working part-time to grade homework assignments for mathematics or PIC courses under the direction of professors and teaching assistants.
We are excited to announce that QCSA will be hosting the first workshop of the quarter next week!
QCSA will be holding an Intro to Quantum Computing Workshop led by Amanda Younes. Amanda is a third year physics undergraduate who is also a member of our QCSA leadership team. She is working in Professor Campbell’s group here at UCLA and is mainly interested in atomic and photonic qubit systems.
Date: February 7th, 2023
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Physics and Astronomy Building 4-330.
Amanda will be giving an introductory level workshop/presentation with the goal of introducing students with no experience with quantum computing to the field and its opportunities. It will cover the very basics of what makes a quantum computer, quantum gates and quantum programming, and applications of quantum computing. She will also provide a Jupyter notebook afterward to help out with some of the more difficult concepts, and will suggest some resources for students to learn more. The workshop is accessible for students who have not taken quantum mechanics or advanced math.
There will be free food and everyone is welcome to join! If you are interested in attending the event, please fill in this form, so that we can know your food preferences.
If you cannot make it to our in person event, you may join through the zoom:
LA Hacks is Welcoming You Back Home to Pauley Pavilion 🏠! From April 21st – 23rd, get ready for an amazing weekend packed with innovation, panels, workshops, $30,000 worth of prizes 😱, and other fun activities 🥳. With over 1000+ students from across the nation and globe, join us as we celebrate our Homecoming back to Pauley Pavilion and create trailblazing projects that showcase technological skills and creative thinking 🔥. This year we’ll be fully on-site, and we welcome all students of any major or background 🌐! With free food 🍕, swag 👕, transportation 🚌, and lodging 🛏️, you’ll feel right at home at LA Hacks 2023! For more information about our event and hacker applications, visit ✨lahacks.com✨We hope to see you at LA Hacks 2023!
🕒 Applications close: Friday, February 24th, 11:59 PM PST (UCLA students who apply by February 17th using their g.ucla.edu account are automatically accepted!)
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The Directed Reading Program (DRP) pairs undergraduate students with graduate students for quarter-long independent study projects in mathematics. Projects culminate in a brief presentation given by the undergraduates in a DRP colloquium.
You are cordially invited to attend the URC – Sciences Winter Quarter Open House on Thursday, January 12, 2023. There will be two in-person workshops in Boyer Hall, Room 130 from 3:00-5:00 PM.
3:00 – 4:00 PM – Getting into Research
This workshop introduces students to university research in the sciences and how to join faculty-supervised research projects.
4:00 – 5:00 PM – URC Programs and Opportunities for Student Researchers
This workshop provides an overview of scholarships and programs offered by the Undergraduate Research Center – Sciences for current student researchers.
The 3:00 PM workshop is suited for students who are interested but not yet conducting research, and the 4:00 PM workshop is suited for current student researchers interested in learning more about our scholarship programs and opportunities. Space in Boyer 130 limited and seating is first come, first served. We look forward to seeing you there!
To find additional Getting into Research Workshops through the quarter, please visit our Events webpage.
