Congratulations to Jiahao Zhang and Zifan He for Winning the Adaptive Computing Category of the 2025 AMD Open Hardware Competition
Congratulations to PhD students Jiahao Zhang and Zifan He for winning the Adaptive Computing category of the 2025 AMD Open Hardware competition. Supervised by Professor Jason Cong, the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at UCLA, the team won the award for their...
UCLA CS Postdoc Dr. Wayne Wu Receives 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research
Dr. Wayne Wu, a postdoctoral scholar in the UCLA Computer Science Department, has been selected as one of eight recipients of the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research. This award is the highest recognition for postdoctoral scholarship at UCLA, and honors...
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky Delivers Strachey Lecture at University of Oxford
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky, the Norman E. Friedman Chair in Knowledge Sciences at UCLA, delivered the prestigious Strachey Lecture at the University of Oxford on October 21. This lecture is the Department of Computer Science’s flagship of this public lecture series....
Professor Jason Cong Wins 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award at ICCAD 2025
Professor Jason Cong, the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at UCLA, has been honored with the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). The award recognizes the lasting...
Six UCLA CS Doctoral Students Named Amazon AI Fellows
Six doctoral students from the Computer Science Department are among the fifteen students from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering who have been selected as Amazon AI Ph.D. fellows through the company’s new $68 million program supporting more than 100...
First Generation UCLA CS Student Secures NVIDIA Internship
Growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Wanda Barahona rarely had access to computers. But those early glimpses of technology sparked a curiosity that would eventually lead her to internships at Lockheed Martin and Nvidia, two of the world’s top tech companies....
AI For Math Fund Awards Raghu Meka
Computer Science Professor Raghu Meka, along with his collaborator, Princeton Professor Pravesh Kothari, have been awarded support from the AI for Math Fund, which is managed by Renaissance Philanthropy in partnership with founding donor XTX Markets. Their project...
CS PhD Student Has Study Published in Nature Journal
Zeyuan (aka Johnson) Chen, a UCLA PhD student in Computer Science and Computational Medicine, recently co-authored a study that was published in the Nature Genetics journal. The study is based on work Chen and others have done under CS and Comp Med Professors Sriram...
CS Student Anne Do Recognized on Major League Hacking Top 50 List
CS Student Anne Do, Class of 2027, has been named to 2025's MLH Top 50—a list compiled each year by Major League Hacking (MLH) that showcases the organization's most inspiring community members. The recipients are recognized for their exceptional contributions to the...