Dr. Sheila Tejada to serve as 2020 Grace Hopper Co-Chair
Dr. Sheila Tejada, a '93 UCLA Computer Science alum, has been chosen to serve as 2020 Grace Hopper Co-Chair. In 1994, she was one of around 500 women to join the very first Grace Hopper Celebration in Washington, D.C. In addition to her service at the Grace Hopper...
Professor Judea Pearl Named Royal Statistical Society Honorary Fellow
Professor Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been elected as an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a professional organization in the United Kingdom. This organization promotes the...
Internet Architect Dr. Leonard Kleinrock Receives UCLA Medal
Leonard Kleinrock, distinguished professor of computer science and one of the world’s foremost internet pioneers, was awarded the UCLA Medal, the campus’s highest honor, for his remarkable contributions in providing the intellectual foundation for the modern technical...
Professor Guy Van den Broeck Named Sloan Fellow
Professor Guy Van den Broeck, along with three other UCLA faculty members, is among the 126 researchers from more than 60 research institutions in the United States and Canada named as 2020 Sloan Research Fellows. Sloan Research Fellowships are one of the most...
Dr. Zhe Chen receives the 2019 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research
Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Zhe Chen was one of eight recipients of the 2019 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research. Established in 1998, this award recognizes the important contributions made by postdoctoral scholars to UCLA’s research mission. Under the...
Professor Sriram Sankararaman Awarded Microsoft Investigator Fellowship
Professor Sriram Sankararaman was awarded the Microsoft Investigator Fellowship. Designed to empower researchers of all disciplines who plan to make an impact with research and teaching using the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform, each fellowship provides...
Ph.D. Student Jieyu Zhao Named 2020 Microsoft Research PhD Fellow.
It is a pleasure to announce that Ph.D. student Jieyu Zhao has been named a 2020 Microsoft Research PhD Fellow. Jieyu was one of 15 Lovelace and PhD Fellows selected from among 600 gifted researchers from top institutions across the U.S. More details can be found...
Professor Cong Delivers Keynote speech at ASP-DAC ‘2020
Professor Jason Cong delivered a keynote speech entitled “Design Automation for Customizable Computing” at ASP-DAC’2020 on Jan. 20, 2020 in Beijing, China. ASP-DAC 2020 is the 25th annual international conference on VLSI design automation in Asia and South Pacific...
Professor Leonard Kleinrock Inducted into the National Academy of Inventors
Professor Leonard Kleinrock was recently the recipient of two honors: he is the first UCLA Computer Science professor to be inducted into the National Academy of Inventors, and he was presented with the key to Los Angeles by Mayor Garcetti, an honor normally reserved...