UCLA Professor Jens Palsberg Delivers Keynote at Premier Programming Languages Symposium
On January 24, 2025, at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) in Denver, UCLA Computer Science Professor Jens Palsberg delivered a keynote address titled “Welcome to Quantum 3.0!” POPL is a leading international forum for researchers,...
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 Professor Raghu Meka Receives Prestigious IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award
Raghu Meka, a professor in UCLA’s Computer Science Department, has been named the recipient of the 2025 W. Wallace McDowell Award by the IEEE Computer Society. This honor recognizes Professor Meka for his contributions to complexity theory, pseudorandomness,...
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...
Professor Jason Cong and Co-Authors Inducted into the Class of 2025 FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Professor Jason Cong and his co-authors on the induction of their paper, "Optimizing Field-Programmable Gate Array-Based Accelerator Design for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks," into the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame (Class of...
Distinguished Professor Lixia Zhang Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Lixia Zhang, a distinguished professor and current Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Networks in the UCLA Computer Science Department, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors granted to American engineers....
Pioneering the Future of Cryptography: An Interview with a World Leader
In a recent feature for the "World Leaders in Cryptography" series hosted by Bill Buchanan, Professor Amit Sahai shared insights from a career spanning nearly three decades in the field of cryptography. The interview delved deep into his significant contributions,...
Professor Jason Cong Delivered a Keynote at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2025
On January 22, 2025, at the 30th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference in Tokyo, Japan, UCLA Professor Jason Cong delivered a keynote titled “Compilation and Architecture Optimization for Quantum Computing”. The conference, a major event in Electronic...
UCLA CS Undergraduate Student Kuan Heng (Jordan) Lin Named 2024–2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Finalist
Kuan Heng (Jordan) Lin, a UCLA Computer Science undergraduate, has been named a finalist for the 2024–2025 Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Established in 2001, this prestigious award recognizes exceptional undergraduate...