Professor Jens Palsberg Elected to Executive Committee of Global Scientific Computing Society
Jens Palsberg, a professor of computer science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been elected to the Association for Computing Machinery’s Executive Committee and will serve as chair of the Special Interest Group Governing Board for a two-year term. As chair,...
Professor Judea Pearl named to Carnegie Corporation’s annual great immigrants list
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has named Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, as a 2020 honoree of its annual Great Immigrants program. The list, released by the philanthropic foundation every July...
Professor George Varghese delivered a keynote speech in IFIP Networking 2020
Professor George Varghese delivered a keynote speech in IFIP Networking 2020 titled "Network Verification: When Clarke Meets Cerf." The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2020 Conference (NETWORKING 2020) is a leading conference...
Professor Quanquan Gu receives AWS Machine Learning Research Award
Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor of computer science in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received an AWS Machine Learning Research Award. The award supports Prof. Gu’s research for developing a suite of principled and efficient deep reinforcement...
Professor Kai-Wei Chang awarded the 2019 Amazon Research Award
Professor Kai-Wei Chang has been awarded the 2019 Amazon Research Award for her research on Learning Robust Contextual Language Encoders at Scale. The Amazon Research Awards helps fund outstanding, innovative research proposals across machine learning, robotics,...
Professor Lixia Zhang wins the 2020 SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Lixia Zhang, jointly with Amin Vahdat of Google, won the 2020 SIGCOMM Lifetime Award for Networking, the top ACM networking award. Past winners include Internet pioneers such as Baran, Cerf, and Kahn. Zhang's fingerprints are all over...
Professor Majid Sarrafzadeh and Ph.D. students Shayan Fazeli and Babak Moatamed create statistical modeling tool to collect COVID-19 data
A UCLA professor and students created an artificial intelligence-based tool to collect and correlate data related to the COVID-19 pandemic easily. Majid Sarrafzadeh, a computer science professor who specializes in health analytics, created the tool Olivia to reduce...
Professor Wei Wang receives grant to develop model to predict COVID-19 spread
Wei Wang, the Leonard Kleinrock Professor of Computer Science in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a one-year, $90,000 rapid-response research grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a prediction model for the spread of COVID-19. With...
ACM at UCLA awarded the “Outstanding School Service” student chapter award by the international ACM
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded the UCLA student chapter, ACM at UCLA, with the Outstanding School Service award for the 2019-2020 academic year. The recognition is given to student chapters whose events "have made significant contributions to...