UCLA Computer Science 2023 Highlights
The UCLA Computer Science Department‘s 2023 Highlights Brochure is available now. PDF: CS 2023 Highlights
Startup Newsletter by UCLA Grad Pair Hits 10,000 Subscribers
In a remarkable achievement, two Computer Science graduate students at UCLA, Arek Der-Sarkissian and Ethan Keshishian, have announced that their startup newsletter, Unicorner, has reached a readership of 10,000. This milestone is a testament to the duo's dedication,...
Fourteen UCLA Graduate Students Accept Faculty Jobs
The UCLA Computer Science Department continues to celebrate another year of remarkable research accomplishments and achievements. We are proud to introduce fourteen exceptional graduate students who are embarking on a new chapter in their careers as professors at...
UCLA CS PhD Shichang Zhang wins the 2023 J.P. Morgan Chase Ph.D. Fellowship
Shichang Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA Computer Science Department, has been awarded the prestigious 2023 J.P. Morgan Chase Ph.D. Fellowship for his exceptional research in the field of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and machine learning on graph...
UCLA Computer Science Alumnus Cracks Decade-Old Code, Wins Top Computing Award
Aayush Jain Ph.D. ’21, one of three researchers who achieved what Quanta Magazine called the “crown jewel” of cryptography in 2020, received the best doctoral dissertation award for his research on the subject from the world’s leading computing society, the...
UCLA Engineering Welcomes Five New Computer Science Faculty Members
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has appointed five faculty members with various experiences in promoting equity, diversity and inclusion to its Computer Science Department. They bring expertise in developing computer architectures, fairness in machine learning,...
Professor Cong received 2023 Best Paper Award from the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
A warm congratulations to Professor Jason Cong along with PhD candidate Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, and graduate student researchers Cody Hao Yu, and Min Gao for receiving the 2023 Best Paper Award from the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems...
UCLA Computer Scientist Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Wireless Network Connectivity and Reliability.
Omid Abari, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation — the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early stages of their teaching and research...
Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng Received the Google Research Scholar Award
UCLA Professor Nanyun Violet Peng recently received the 2023 Google Research Scholar Award. The Research Scholar Program supports research at institutions around the world, awarding grants up to $60,000 USD, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by...