CS Professor Judea Pearl Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society

Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been elected to the United Kingdom’s Royal Society, widely recognized as one of the most...
Fetch.ai Innovation Lab Award Fuels Breakthrough AI Research at UCLA

Fetch.ai Innovation Lab Award Fuels Breakthrough AI Research at UCLA

    A generous $100,000 compute infrastructure award from Fetch.AI is set to accelerate two cutting-edge research projects in the UCLA Computer Science Department, driving advances in synthetic data generation for software testing and memory-efficient large language...

Carlo Zaniolo Wins 2025 Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award

Carlo Zaniolo Wins 2025 Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award

UCLA emeritus professor Carlo Zaniolo has received the 2025 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, which recognizes major, lasting contributions to database systems. The award is named after Edgar Codd, who revolutionized data management by introducing the...

Kai-Wei Chang Recognized Among IEEE’s Top 10 Rising Stars in AI

Kai-Wei Chang Recognized Among IEEE’s Top 10 Rising Stars in AI

Dr. Kai-Wei Chang, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at UCLA, has been named one of AI’s 10 to Watch by the IEEE Computer Society. This biennial recognition highlights ten rising stars in artificial intelligence from around the world, selected for...

UCLA Professor Jason Cong Receives ACM Computing Breakthrough Award

UCLA Professor Jason Cong Receives ACM Computing Breakthrough Award

Jason Cong, a distinguished professor of computer science and holder of the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the 2024 Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award from the Association for...

UCLA ACM Chapter Holds Hybrid Cybersecurity Competition

UCLA ACM Chapter Holds Hybrid Cybersecurity Competition

ACM Cyber, a student-organized community within the UCLA chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, recently held its third annual Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition at Covel Commons and online. The annual event, which has drawn approximately 100...