Prof. Jason Cong wins 2019 Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award

Prof. Jason Cong wins 2019 Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award

CS Professor Jason Cong, together with his co-authors Dr. Chen Zhang (former visiting student, now at Microsoft Research Asia), Prof. Guangyu Sun (Peking University), Prof. Zhenman Fang (former postdoc, now faculty member at Simon Fraser Univ.), Peipei Zhou (current...
New tool can pinpoint origins of the gut’s bacteria

New tool can pinpoint origins of the gut’s bacteria

A UCLA-led research team has developed a faster and more accurate way to determine  where the many bacteria that live in, and on, humans come from. Broadly, the tool can deduce the origins of any microbiome, a localized and diverse community of microscopic organisms....
UCLA PhD Students win Best Paper Award in Robot Vision at ICRA 2019

UCLA PhD Students win Best Paper Award in Robot Vision at ICRA 2019

CS PhD students Alex Wong and Fei Xiaohan under the supervision of Professor Stefano Soatto have won the Best Paper Award in Robot Vision at the  International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) for their paper, “Geo-Supervised Visual Depth Prediction.” They...