PhD Student Pan Lu Wins 2023 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Pan Lu, a PhD student in the Computer Science department at UCLA, has been awarded the 2023 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF), along with his team member Jiacheng (Gary) Liu, a PhD student in the School of Computer Science & Engineering at UW. The winning teams...
Professor Amit Sahai Wins Test of Time Award at FOCS
Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 2023, one of the top conferences in theoretical computer science along with the Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), has selected Professor Amit Sahai’s work on indistinguishability obfuscation to receive a Test of Time...
Professor Raghu Meka and student Zander Kelley Win FOCS 2023 Best Paper Award
In recent developments, UCLA Professor Raghu Meka and student Zander Kelley from UIUC achieved a breakthrough on a problem in arithmetic combinatorics that had stumped mathematicians for over 70 years. Their breakthrough has earned Meka and coauthor Kelley’s paper...
Jason Cong Receives the 2023 Outstanding Scientist Award from the Chinese Association for Science and Technology
Professor Jason Cong received the Outstanding Scientist Award from the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, USA (CAST-USA) at its 31st Annual Meeting and Global Innovation Summit on October 14, 2023, in Irvine, California. CAST-USA serves as a model for...
UCLA Student Harold Li won 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellowship
UCLA Ph.D. student Harold Li in the Computer Science department received the 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellowship for his work in Natural Language Processing. The Google Ph.D. Fellowship program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and...
Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng Wins 2023 Okawa Research Grant
Congratulations to assistant professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng who just received the 2023 Okawa Research Grant. Professor Peng is among the seven recipients from UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Caltech, and Carnegie Mellon. The...
Professor Kim Receives the Most Influential Paper Award at ICSME 2023
Congratulations to Professor Miryung Kim of UCLA and her former PhD student, Baishakhi Ray, who is currently an Associate Professor at Columbia University. They were honored with the Most Influential Paper Award at this year's International Conference on Software...
Bringing High-speed mmWave Networks to Any IoT Device
In recent research, Assistant Professor Omid Abari at UCLA has achieved remarkable advancements in advancing high-speed networking capabilities for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. His research encompasses the entire spectrum of IoT networks and systems, from the...
Bolei Zhou wins Intel’s 2023 Rising Star Faculty Award
In a remarkable achievement, Assistant Professor Bolei Zhou has been honored with the prestigious Intel® Rising Star Faculty Award (RSA) for 2023. Zhou's ground-breaking work in the realm of computer vision and machine autonomy has earned him this recognition, making...