Related Institutes and Centers
Anderson School of Management – Easton Technology Management Center (ETMC)
Through innovative courses, creative workshops, high-profile events and immersion in the most vital areas of high-tech business culture, Easton prepares the next generation to drive change in technology. By exploring verticals such as high-tech, financial services, health care, education, entertainment/media, retail and defense, students are prepared to work anywhere from startups to large global corporations.
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
CNSI is an integrated research facility with locations at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. Its mission is to encourage university collaboration with industry and to enable the rapid commercialization of discoveries in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The work conducted at the CNSI represents world-class expertise in four targeted areas of nanosystems-related research including Energy, Environment, Health-Medicine, and Information Technology.
Center for Design-Enabled Nanofabrication (C-DEN)
The Center for Design-Enabled Nanofabrication (C-DEN), with cross-disciplinary expertise in lithography, resists, etch, integration and computer-aided design, will investigate challenges in design, patterning and fabrication of integrated systems at the 5nm node and beyond. Over its four-year span (2016-2020), we expect the center to continually support 12-15 students and 10-11 PIs through industry funding matched with reduced overhead rates (~25%) and administrative support from the three UC campuses. Our research is organized according to three thrusts – patterning, integration, and design enablement.
Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC)
The aim of the CDSC is to focus on the development of high-performance, energy-efficient, customizable computing that can revolutionize the way computers are used in health care and other important applications. Domain-specific computing uses customizable architectures and high-level computer languages tailored to particular application domains.
Center for Heterogeneous Integration and Performance Scaling (CHIPS)
The CHIPS mission is to interpret and implement Moore’s Law to include all aspects of heterogeneous systems and develop architectures, methodologies, designs, components, materials and manufacturable integration schemes, that will shrink system footprint and improve power and performance.
CHIPS is an interdisciplinary university-led consortium composed of industrial partners, universities and government agencies to address this problem holistically. Starting from the application space, the design environment, and the integration scheme, new materials and components will be developed. These include energy sources, memory, sensors, passives, electromechanical and medical devices – all need to be integrated into this new application space.
Center for High Frequency Electronics (CHFE)
The Center for High Frequency Electronics provides services in Simulating and Design, PCB Fabrication, PCB Fabrication and Back-end Processing, and Characterization and Measurement.
Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems (TANMS)
TANMS aims to engineer a revolution in miniature electromagnetic electronics through development of a new class of nanoscale multiferroic materials. Beyond development of new, optimal electromagnetic materials, TANMS seeks to increase its capacity for innovation by integrating its research with commercialization, and fostering life-long skill development.
Center for Quantum Science & Engineering (CQSE)
The Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (CQSE) was created in 2018 by the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Division of Physical Sciences at UCLA to coordinate research and teaching activities in the emerging field of quantum information science and technology. CQSE is also developing new approaches to education in this emerging discipline.
Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE)
The IDRE mission is to support, advance and guide a campus-wide program to position UCLA as a world leader in research and education in computational thinking, using high performance computation, data visualization and data analysis of large data sets and databases.
IDRE programs are focused on the challenges and opportunities associated with five areas critical to advancing innovative research and scholarship: Computation and Storage, GPU/Many Core, Pipeline to Leadership Class Facilities; Statistical Computing/Data Informatics; and GIS, Visualization and Modeling.
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
IPAM fosters the interaction of mathematics with a broad range of science and technology, builds new interdisciplinary research communities, promotes mathematical innovation, and engages and transforms the world through mathematics. It fulfills its mission through workshops and other programs that connect mathematics and other disciplines or multiple areas of mathematics.
Interconnected & Integrated Bioelectronics Lab (I2BL)
At I²BL, we develop an ecosystem of wearable, mobile and in-vivo biosensors to enable Personalized and Precision Medicine. To this end, we design and fabricate nano/microelectromechanical systems (N/MEMS)-based devices that provide actuation and sensing capabilities to control, isolate and sense biomarkers in highly complex biological media such as blood, sweat, saliva, and urine. Additionally, we integrate our devices into electronic platforms with system-level functionalities to enable translational applications. In that regard, we exploit emerging technologies such as 3D printing and flexible, stretchable and dissolvable electronics to tailor our platforms toward the physiological sample under analysis.
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE)
The JIFRESSE is a scientific collaboration between UCLA and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to improve understanding and to develop future projections about global climate change and its effect on regional climates and environments.
The Institute combines UCLA’s strength in climate modeling and remote sensing and JPL’s strength in data collection from satellites. It serves as a center for multi-disciplinary research focused on Earth systems in the Southern California region, including studies of the atmosphere, coastal ocean and land surface, and the physical, chemical and biological interactions among them.
Laboratory for Embedded Machines and Ubiquitous Robotics (LEMUR)
The UCLA Nanofabrication Laboratory (NanoLab)
The UCLA Nanofabrication Laboratory (NanoLab) provides open-access to advanced research infrastructure for fabrication and characterization of nanoscale materials, systems and devices. With over 15,000 square feet of class 10, 100 and 1000 cleanroom space, the NanoLab integrates modern semiconductor tools, processes and analysis using substrates ranging in size from small pieces to 150mm wafers with emerging classes of biomedically relevant materials and devices. By providing access to a professional staff with deep knowledge of fabrication techniques and process development, the UCLA NanoLab enables a broad range of academic and industrial R&D projects.