Judea Pearl Named AI Pioneer by Boston Global Forum in Honor of America’s 250th Anniversary
Judea Pearl, a chancellor’s professor emeritus of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been named one of 50 AI Pioneers by nonprofit think tank Boston Global Forum and its AI World Society initiative. The recognition honors prominent U.S....
Professor MIryung Kim Gives Keynote at PLDI 2026
UCLA Computer Science Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies Miryung Kim delivered a prestigious keynote address at the 47th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2026). PLDI is a premier conference for programming...
UCLA CS PhD Seth Z. Zhao and His Team Win the 2026 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
UCLA Computer Science PhD candidate Seth Z. Zhao and teammate Zewei Zhou have been awarded the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) North America 2026, one of the most competitive and prestigious fellowships in computer science and electrical engineering. The...
UCLA CS Professor Bolei Zhou’s Lab Joins Toyota Research Institute’s University Research Program 3.0 to Build Next-Generation Driving Simulator
The UCLA Department of Computer Science has joined the newest cohort of the Toyota Research Institute’s University Research Program (URP) 3.0, a five-year initiative supporting collaborative research in artificial intelligence, robotics and automated driving....
Paper by Professor Jason Cong Once Again Inducted into the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Professor Jason Cong on the induction of his paper, “DAOmap: A Depth-Optimal Area Optimization Mapping Algorithm for FPGA Designs,” into the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame, Class of 2026. Cong co-authored the paper with his...
CS Professors’ AI Research Project Awarded Laude Moonshots Grant
A team of six UCLA faculty members spanning artificial intelligence, computer science and mathematics has received a $250,000 seed grant from the Laude Institute as part of its inaugural Moonshots initiative, which supports university-led efforts to solve some...
Amazon Fellowships Support 26 UCLA CS Doctoral Students in a Single Academic Quarter
Twenty-six Computer Science doctoral students are among the 42-student cohort who received Amazon fellowships for the 2026 winter quarter through three programs coordinated by the Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, a collaboration between...
UCLA Team Including 4 CS Professors Awarded $5 Million DARPA Contract to Develop AI for Math Advancement
A team of UCLA computer scientists and mathematicians has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop artificial intelligence tools aimed at transforming how mathematical discoveries are made,...
Professor Jason Cong Receives Harold Pender Award from Penn Engineering
Professor Jason Cong, Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at UCLA, received the Harold Pender Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania "for groundbreaking contributions in field-programmable gate arrays and...