Prof. Sriram Sankararaman & Ameet Talwalkar Receive NSF Grant

Prof. Sriram Sankararaman & Ameet Talwalkar Receive NSF Grant

UCLA computer science professors Sriram Sankararaman and Ameet Talwalkar have received a $718,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to apply machine learning tools to analyze massively large sets of human genomic data. Ultimately, this research could lead to...
UCLA ACM Receives Student Chapter Excellence Award

UCLA ACM Receives Student Chapter Excellence Award

This year, out of over 680 student chapters worldwide, UCLA ACM has been awarded with the 2016-2017 ACM Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Activities. The UCLA Association for Computing Machinery is a branch of ACM, an international organization which...
Prof. Eli Gafni and Elizabeth Borowsky Receive 2017 Dijkstra Prize

Prof. Eli Gafni and Elizabeth Borowsky Receive 2017 Dijkstra Prize

This year, computer science professor Eli Gafni and one of his former Ph.D. students, Elizabeth Borowsky, have been awarded the 2017 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their 1993 publication, “Generalized FLP impossibility result for t-resilient...