Professor Miryung Kim Serves as Program Co-Chair for ICSME 2019
Professor Miryung Kim served as a Program Co-Chair for ICSME 2019--the 35th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution on September 30 to October 4, 2019, which concluded in Cleveland, Ohio last week. ICSME is the premier international forum...
Professors Hsieh and Chang Receive Facebook Research Award
CS Assistant Professors Cho-Jui Hsieh and Kai-Wei Chang have been awarded the 2019 Facebook Research Award on Computationally Efficient NLP. The program focused on making NLP models more efficient both at training and testing time to enable production applications of...
PhD Student Ariyam Das selected for TPLP Best Student Paper Award at ICLP
Ph.D. student Ariyam Das had his paper "A Case for Stale Synchronous Distributed Model for Declarative Recursive Computation" selected as the "TPLP Best Student Paper Award" at the 35th International Conference on Logic Programming. The paper was authored by Das as...
CS Student Kevin Tan Wins Prestigious UPE/ACM Scholarship Award
Kevin Tan, a current fourth-year Computer Science student and the president of UCLA Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), was awarded the prestigious 2019 UPE/ACM Scholarship Award. The award recognizes students who demonstrate academic excellence in the...
Professor Ostrovsky Elected to Academia Europaea
Congratulations to Professor Rafail Ostrovsky for being elected as a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea class of 2019. The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and...
Professor Alyson Fletcher: Elected to Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Alyson Fletcher has been named a 2019–2020 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, joining more than 50 women and men in the incoming fellowship class as they pursue work across the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts....
Professor Demetri Terzopoulos Gives Keynote Address at ICRA 2019
Professor Demetri Terzopoulos delivered a Keynote Address titled "Biomimetic Human Simulation and the Deep Learning of Neuromuscular and Sensorimotor Control" at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), which was held on May 20-24,...
Computer Science Professor: Guy Van den Broeck Receives Prestigious Computers and Thought Award
Professor Guy Van den Broeck is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Computers and Thought Award. This award is presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) to an outstanding young scientist in artificial intelligence. The...
NSF Grant to CS Professors to create CAD tools for Networks
Computer scientists at UCLA and USC have received a four-year, $1,999,404 research grant from the National Science Foundation to create a new field called Network Design Automation (NDA) that seeks to create Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools for networks. When we use...
