Professor Adnan Darwiche

November 13, 2009

 

Welcome to the Computer Science Department (CSD) at UCLA!

Our department was officially established in 1968—although the UCLA environment has been making contributions to the information revolution since   the late 1940s.

 

The CSD provides one of the finest centers in the world for graduate and undergraduate education in computer science through its offering of two B.S. degrees (computer science and computer science & engineering) in addition to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science. Typically, more than 900 students are enrolled each year in these graduate and undergraduate programs.

The department also provides one of the strongest centers for computer science research, covering such diverse areas as artificial intelligence, computer networks, software/hardware systems, vision and graphics, databases, computer science theory and bioinformatics. It is also host to a number of multidisciplinary research centers on domain-specific computing, wireless health, embedded networked sensing, information security, and autonomous intelligent networks and systems.

The achievements and accomplishments of our faculty have been widely acknowledged through a set of high-profile awards and recognitions, including memberships in the National Academy of Engineering, ACM, IEEE, and AAAI, and Sloan fellowship awards. The focus of our faculty on research continues to be complimented by a strong commitment to teaching, as evidenced by the acclamation of yearly, high-profile teaching awards.

As I welcome you to our department, I wish to stress again our commitment to the highest levels of excellence in both teaching and research, and our unyielding mission to further the reach of computer science and engineering as it continues to impact our world in positive and profound ways.

As you browse through our departmental website, please feel free to share with us any feedback you may have. We would love to hear from you!

Adnan Darwiche
Chair, Computer Science Department
University of California, Los Angeles