Professors Songwu Lu and Carlo Zaniolo Elected ACM Fellows
Professors Songwu Lu and Carlo Zaniolo were elected as ACM Fellows. This is ACM's highest honor and only given to around 1% of ACM Members. ACM honored Professor Zaniolo for his significant contributions to theory and practice of Data Bases and Knowledge Bases and...
Professor Amit Sahai Awarded AWS Machine Learning Research Award
Professor Amit Sahai has been awarded an AWS Machine Learning Research Award (MLRA) for his work on New Approaches for Provably Robust Machine Learning. The AWS Machine Learning Research Award assists researchers in advancing machine learning and its applications over...
Professors Hsieh and Chang Receive Facebook Research Award
CS Assistant Professors Cho-Jui Hsieh and Kai-Wei Chang have been awarded the 2019 Facebook Research Award on Computationally Efficient NLP. The program focused on making NLP models more efficient both at training and testing time to enable production applications of...
Prof. Yizhou Sun wins 2019 Okawa Research Grant
The CS Department is pleased to announce that Professor Yizhou Sun is the recipient of a 2019 Okawa Research Grant. The Okawa Foundation awards these grants for studies and analyzes in the fields of information and telecommunication. This year the six recipients were...
Prof. Jason Cong awarded Google’s Faculty Research Award
Prof. Jason Cong has been named one of the recipients of the Google Faculty Research Award (FRA). The Google FRA program is focused on funding world-class technical research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields. Among 910 proposals from 40 countries...
Prof. Yizhou Sun given 2018 Amazon Research Award
Associate CS Professor Yizhou Sun has been awarded the 2018 Amazon Research Award for her research on knowledge quality enhancement via path-guided logic-based uncertain knowledge graph embedding. The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) program funds academic research and...
Computer Science Professor: Leonard Kleinrock Receives 5 Million Gift To Establish UCLA Connection Lab
5 million gift to the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering in honor of internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock will establish a new center devoted to shaping the future of the internet and computer networking. The gift from Sunday Group Inc., a Las Vegas-based software...
CS Ph.D. Student Muhammad Gulzar Wins Gold Medal at ICSE Student Research Competition
Every year, ACM holds Student Research Competitions, which offer undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to present their original research before a panel of judges and attendees at well-known ACM-sponsored and co-sponsored conferences. This year, Muhammad...
Assistant Professor Kai-Wei Chang Receives 2018 Okawa Research Grant
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kai-Wei Chang! We are pleased to announce that he is a recipient of the 2018 Okawa Research Grant for his work on Reducing Implicit Societal Bias in Artificial Intelligence Systems. This year there were six...
