Professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman Receives NSF CAREER Award
Professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members at the start of their research and teaching careers. This award includes a five-year grant to support her research on Coresets for...
Professor Yizhou Sun Wins VLDB Test of Time Award
Professor Yizhou Sun's paper "PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks" has won this year’s VLDB Test of Time Award. Other authors include Jiawei Han, Xifeng Yan, Philip S. Yu, and Tianyi Wu. The paper is a significant...
Professor Wei Wang Joins NSF-Funded Data Chemistry Research Center
Professor Wei Wang, the Leonard Kleinrock Term Chair in Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, will bring her expertise in data science and machine learning to a major chemistry research center funded by the National Science Foundation....
UCLA Part of New $10M NSF Data Science Research Center, EnCORE
UCLA will be part of a multi-institutional research center funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Institute for Emerging CORE Methods in Data Science, or EnCORE, will be a collaboration among UC San Diego (lead organization), UCLA, University of...
Professor Miryung Kim Delivers Keynote Address at ISSTA 2022
Computer Science Department Professor Miryung Kim delivered a keynote address, "Software Developer Tools for Democratizing Heterogeneous Computing Applications," on July 20th at the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA). ISSTA is...
Overcoming Hearing Deficit, UCLA Computer Science Student Uses Her Own Experiences to Empower Others
Natalia Luzuriaga knows firsthand the power of technology to make people’s lives better having overcome her own experiences with partial hearing loss. “I was always taught to help others out,” said the fourth-year computer science student at the UCLA Samueli School of...
Todd Millstein Named Chair of UCLA Engineering Computer Science Department
Professor Todd Millstein has been selected to be the chair of the Computer Science Department at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, effective July 1. He succeeded Professor Eli Gafni, who had served in the position since 2020. Millstein joined UCLA in 2003 and...
UCLA Systems Group Won Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI
SOLAR Lab's OSDI paper titled "MemLiner: Lining up Tracing and Application for a Far-Memory-Friendly Runtime" was selected for a Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI 2022 Far-memory techniques that enable cloud applications to...
Ten UCLA CS Ph.D. students and Postdocs To Become Professors
At the end of the 2021-2022 school year, the UCLA Computer Science Department celebrates another year of research excellence and achievements by featuring ten Ph.D. graduates and Postdoctoral Researchers who are about to begin a new journey of their lives as...