Achuta Kadambi (PhD, MIT ‘18) is an Associate Professor at UCLA in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He leads an interdisciplinary research group that focuses on AI, and recruits PhD students from the EE, CS, and Bioengineering Departments. He is the recipient of early career awards including from NSF (CAREER), DARPA (YFA), ARO (YIP), IEEE (HKN under 35 award), and Forbes (30 under 30). He has co-founded two California companies to commercialize research technologies. Kadambi has filed over 70 patents, 30+ of which have been issued to date and has co-authored a textbook, Computational Imaging (MIT Press, 2022).
Biography
H. Ronald Kaback has been a member of the faculty at UCLA since he joined the Depts. of Physiology and Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, as well as the Molecular Biology Institute, in 1989 as a full professor. Dr. Kaback earned his B.S. at Haverford College and his M.D. at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he also did an internship in Pediatrics. After a year as a graduate student, he became a Commissioned Officer in the USPHS at the NIH and subsequently became at Staff Associate. He then moved to the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, NJ where he later became Head of Biochemistry before coming to UCLA. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and is the recipient of many awards for his work.