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Professor Joaquin Moraga receives NSF CAREER Award
Professor Joaquin Moraga has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award. He will be receiving $500,000 over the course

Professors Anton Bernshteyn and Ernest Ryu named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
Anton Bernshteyn (left) and Ernest Ryu (right)

Professor Mason Porter Receives 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition
UCLA Math Professor Mason Porter has been named the recipient of the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition, a prestigious honor from the Society

Professor Andrea Bertozzi Leads New Research Initiative using AI to Classify Data
Professor Andrea Bertozzi (Left). Pictured on the right is an image showing an artistic interpretation of the work of Professor Andrea Bertozzi, generated by OpenArt

Professor Zhouli Xu Awarded 2025-26 AMS Centennial Fellowship
UCLA Mathematics Professor Zhouli Xu has been awarded the 2025-2026 AMS Centennial Research Fellowship. He was selected based on his outstanding research in algebraic topology.

Professor Igor Pak, UCLA PhD Candidate Nikita Gladkov, and MIT PhD Candidiate Aleksandr Zimin Debunk the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’
Photo Credit: Quanta Magazine, Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked. “Hollom found a counterexample to this version of the conjecture. He created a small hypergraph

Professor Chenfanfu Jiang’s Collaboration with Toyota Research Institute Recognized as Finalist for IROS 2024 RoboCup Best Paper Award
The 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024), one of the premier global conferences on robotics research, took place from October

Professor Ernest Ryu Awarded 2024 Young Researchers Prize
UCLA Math Professor Ernest Ryu was awarded the 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers. This prestigious award was established in 1998 and is

Professor Igor Pak Awarded Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study
Professor Igor Pak was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2024-2025 academic year, alongside fellow Professor Gabriel Greenberg from