Recent News Highlights:

• 2018: Professor Sayed elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.
• 2017: Professor Sayed recognized as highly-cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics.
• 2017: Professor Sayed appointed Dean of Engineering at EPFL, Switzerland.
• 2016: 29 UCLA faculty on Thomson Reuters' list for influential scholarship.
• 2016: Professor Sayed receives Education Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
• 2016: Best Paper Award from the European Association for Signal Processing.
• 2015: Professor Sayed is recognized as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters.
• 2015: Professor Sayed voted to serve as President-Elect of IEEE Signal Processing Society.
• 2015: Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
• 2014: Professor Sayed is recognized as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters.
• 2014: UCLA Electrical Engineering plays key role in DARPA “Neuroprosthesis” research.
• 2014: Professor Sayed publishes Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization over Networks.
• 2014: Professor Sayed receives multiple recognitions.
• 2013: Professor Sayed receives multiple awards including the Technical Achievement Award.
• 2013: Professor Sayed delivers plenary lecture at EUSIPCO, Marrakech, Morocco.
• 2013: Professor Sayed delivers plenary lecture at ICASSP, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2013: Professor Sayed awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, United Kingdom.
• 2012: Professor Sayed named Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• 2012: Professor Sayed delivers plenary lecture at IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning, Spain.

Research Activities:

Members of the laboratory are engaged in research investigations along several directions including (recent projects):

• Adaptation and learning (books and videos)
• Machine learning. Online learning. Big data analytics. ( course )
• Adaptive networks; diffusion strategies (surveys [1], [2], [3], seminar, course & videos )
• Data and network science (courses )
• Multi-agent networks. Emergent behavior. ( survey, editorial, seminar, course & videos )
• Signal processing over graphs. ( course & videos )
• Flocking and swarming behavior. Biological networks. ( software & articles )
• Bio-inspired processing and design. ( software & articles )
• Information-processing theories. System theory.
• Detection and estimation theories; statistical signal processing.
• Neural signal processing.
• Self-healing circuitry.
• Signal processing for wireless location (tool).
• Assessment mechanisms for educational programs (EEweb, video)