Professor Miryung Kim Gives Distinguished Lectures at UIUC and University of Minnesota on Software Engineering for Data Analytics
Professor Kim has taken a leadership role in defining the emerging area of Software Engineering for Data Analytics (SE4DA) and was invited to give a Distinguished Lecture at both UIUC Computer Science and University Minnesota's Cray Distinguished Speaker Series....
Professor Kai-Wei Chang and Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh Receive Google Research Scholar Award
Professor Kai-Wei Chang and Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh have been awarded the 2021 Google Research Scholar Award. The Google Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google. The grant program provides...
Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh Receives NSF CAREER Award to Make Machine Learning Smarter and Safer
Cho-Jui Hsieh, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early stages of their teaching and research careers. The...
Professor Alexander Sherstov awarded UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor Alexander Sherstov was awarded UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award. The goal of the UCLA Academic Senate Teaching Award is to increase awareness of UCLA’s leadership in teaching and public service by honoring individuals who exemplify...
Professor Eran Halperin elected a 2021 ISCB Fellow
Professor Eran Halperin was elected as 2021 International Society for Computational Biology Fellows. The 2021 ISCB Fellows program was created to honor members who have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology...
Professor Cong and His Students Receive Best Paper Award from the 29th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
Computer Science Professor Jason Cong and his students Licheng Guo, Yuze Chi, Jie Wang, Jason Lau, and Weikang Qiao, in collaboration with Professor Zhiru Zhang and his student Ecenur Ustun at Cornell University, have received the Best Paper Award from the 29th...
UCLA Samueli Launches New Computer Science Summer Institute for High School Students
This summer, UCLA computer science professor Yizhou Sun will introduce UCLA’s first-ever Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) aimed at engaging high school students who have a passion for computer science. The new program will offer two tracks — an introductory...
Graduate Student Linghao Song Receives the EDAA Outstanding Dissertations Award 2020
Linghao was selected as one of the four winners of EDAA Outstanding Dissertations Award 2020. In his dissertation, he focused on the architecture for deep learning and graph processing. Linghao is a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Jason Cong....
Graduate Student Atefeh Sohrabizadeh Wins the Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship
Atefeh Sohrabizadeh is one of 15 winners of the Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship. Atefeh joined the Ph.D. program in UCLA Computer Science Program in Fall 2018. Her research interests lie in parallel architecture and programming. Not only was she the lead...