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Our Executive Director Warren Mori, has been recognized as the winner of the 2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize, arguably the most important award in plasma physics in the world! https://bit.ly/3llGXiv

Congratulations to Quanquan Gu for receiving the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Research Award! https://bit.ly/3inASQc

UCLA research continues pushing forward! EEB graduate student Shawn Schwartz has remained focused on his project to improve neural network training for biological research. Initially inspired by his study of fishes' color patterns, his current research seeks to help all researchers across the field. Schwartz, along with his fellow researchers in the Alfaro Lab, are developing a website that biologists can use to create custom data training sets for deep learning models. The ...research was recognized as a Top 4 poster at IDRE's Early Career Research Day in November 2019. Read the full article on IDRE's website!

UCLA researchers forecast the COVID-19 spread, more than 300 faculty members condemned racial injustice, and IDRE announces our Summer 2020 workshop calendar all in July's newsletter! This month, we highlighted Early Career Research Day winner Shawn Schwartz's project to improve neural network training Read IDRE's July newsletter to find out more!

Sheltering in place increased domestic violence reports, according to a study by a UCLA research team, including IDRE's Andrea Bertozzi. The researchers analyzed police calls from before before and after the coronavirus pandemic and reported crime statistics through mid-April. Their study is published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Criminal Justice, and you can learn more about the research in UCLA newsroom's article:

Join Dr. Quanquan Gu to learn about taking a model-guided machine learning approach to the confirmed case and death forecasts for COVID-19. The Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA will host a zoom talk on June 5, 2020 at 12:00 pm-1:00 pm. Sign up on IDRE's website now!

Learn about upcoming IDRE workshops, research software allocation tracks, remote research consulting and training opportunities, and more in our May newsletter! This month, we are highlighting Early Career Research Day Winner Colin Wilkins' research, Tracing the Flow of Information in the Coupled Sun-Earth Space System, as one of the top four posters presented. The UCLA grad student leads the student-run UCLA ELFIN CubeSat, and gathers data from their instruments 280 miles in space. Read more about how Colin is improving space weather forecasting in the newsletter and on IDRE's website: https://bit.ly/3cc1Zv0

At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, IDRE responded quickly to the transition to virtual learning. Read about the response, and the ongoing research amidst the pandemic in our April 2020 newsletter! Last month, we highlighted Early Career Research Day Winner Evan Maltz’s research, Decoding NF-kB Dynamics Using a High-Throughput, Information-Based Approach. The UCLA Ph.D. student uses deep learning to quantify dependency between cell states and functions. Read more about Evan's research in the newsletter and on IDRE's website: https://bit.ly/2YJyHAa

Updated IDRE Information and Scheduling - Covid-19 - Institute for Digital Research and Education

COVID-19 information for the UCLA community

Prepare for INCITE, Boost code performance, Achieve computational readiness: virtual ALCF Computational Performance Workshop (May 5-7, 2020)

XSEDE HPC Workshop: Big Data, April 7-8, 2020: