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...
Professor Carlo Zaniolo – Awarded a Honorary Doctorate: University of Calabria
Professor Zaniolo was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa in Information and communication technologies by the University of Calabria, Italy. For more information about the 05/28/19 ceremony...
CS Student: Winner of Northrup-Grumman Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
The Computer Science Department congratulates and announces that the inaugural winner of the Northrup-Grumman Outstanding TA Award is Alexis Korb. In addition, Young-kyu Choi, Steven Holtzen, Mohammed Kachuee, Seungbae Kim, Alan Litteneker, and Zhehui Zhang earned...
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
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
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...
CS freshman Bryan Chiang wins the 2019 Microsoft ImagineCup World Championship
UCLA Computer Science freshman Bryan Chiang has won the 2019 Imagine World Championship, hosted by Microsoft. Chiang won with his EasyGlucose non-invasive blood glucose level monitor, winning $100K, a mentoring session with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and $50K in...
Chair Adnan Darwiche and Prof. Rafail Ostrovsky win 2019 J.P. Morgan Faculty Awards
Congratulations to Chair of the UCLA CS Department Adnan Darwiche and CS Prof. Rafail Ostrovsky who were announced as recipients of 2019 J.P. Morgan Faculty Awards. As part of the award, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co awarded 47 financial grants to university faculty and...