Building a better bot
An interdisciplinary UCI team is improving assistive robotic technology for homebound children, limited-mobility adults
June 24, 2019
Day: June 24, 2019
5 junior faculty awarded $50,000 Hellman Fellowships
Five assistant professors at the University of California, Irvine will receive $50,000 Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group of 53 UCI Hellman Fellows since 2013, when the Hellman Fellows Fund established the program here. The 2019-20 awardees, representing a cross-section of disciplines, are: “Each […]
June 24, 2019
UCI student’s empathy-based AI project is among finalists in NSF ‘big idea’ competition
Karishma Muthukumar’s “Promoting Empathy-Based AI” project has been chosen as one of 33 finalists in the National Science Foundation’s 2026 Idea Machine competition. The entry from the cognitive sciences major, who just completed her freshman year, was one of 800 nationwide. If selected as one of the four winners, her “big idea” will help guide […]
June 24, 2019