Professor Sahai Wins STOC Test of Time Award

Professor Sahai's paper with his former Ph.D. student Brent Watershas been selected as one of the 10-year Test of Time Awards and will be presented at this year's STOC in Vancouver. The citation for...
CS Ph.D. Pan Lu Awarded Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship

CS Ph.D. Pan Lu Awarded Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship

Pan Lu, a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at UCLA, has been awarded the prestigious Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024. This fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding doctoral students in their research and...

Professor Jason Cong Delivered a Keynote Speech at FCCM 2024

Professor Jason Cong Delivered a Keynote Speech at FCCM 2024

The UCLA Computer Science Department extends warm congratulations to Professor Cong on giving the opening keynote speech entitled “Can Deep Learning Broaden the Participation of FPGA Designs?” at the 2024 IEEE 32nd Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable...

Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng Receives NSF CAREER Award

Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng Receives NSF CAREER Award

Congratulations to Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng on receiving the NSF CAREER Award. Language models (LMs) are fundamental to most natural language processing (NLP) applications today. However, prevalent auto-regressive models, which predict the next word based on...

5 UCLA faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

5 UCLA faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Five UCLA faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Ann Carlson, Jason Cong, Tyrone Howard, Thomas Smith and Paul Taylor are among 250 artists, scholars, scientists and...

PhD Student Yihao Xue Awarded OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grant

PhD Student Yihao Xue Awarded OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grant

UCLA Computer Science Department is proud to announce that Yihao Xue, a third-year PhD student, has been awarded the prestigious OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grant. This grant recognizes Yihao's cutting-edge research in the robustness of representation learning, with a...

Professor Mirzasoleiman Received UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award

Professor Mirzasoleiman Received UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award

A warm congratulations to assistant professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman in receiving the UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award. Each year, a select number of fellows are chosen from faculty in various disciplines across the campus. This years, there are 22. The UCLA...

UCLA Samueli Announces 2024 Edward K. Rice Outstanding Student Awards

UCLA Samueli Announces 2024 Edward K. Rice Outstanding Student Awards

Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields. Below are profiles of the four recipients of the 2024 Edward K. Rice...