Ph.D. student Aishwarya Sivaraman received a 2021 Google Ph.D. Fellowship. The Google Ph.D. Fellowship program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields....

Neural network verification aims to provide provable safety and robustness guarantees for models used in safety-critical applications such as aircraft control and self-driving cars. While earlier approaches before 2017 only scaled to networks with hundreds of neurons,...

The upcoming International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), to be held in July 2022 in St. Petersburg, Russia, will feature Professor Amit Sahai. The ICM invited Professor Sahai to deliver a lecture about his breakthrough work in indistinguishability obfuscation. It...

UCLA computer science alumna Nithya Ramanathan, Ph.D. ’08 has been selected as a 2021 TED Fellow for her leadership in using data and technology to improve the health of people around the world. Ramanathan is one of only 20 new fellows representing 14 countries across...

At the end of the 2020-2021 school year, the UCLA Computer Science Department celebrates another year of research excellence and achievements by featuring eleven Ph.D. graduates and Postdoctoral Researchers who are about to begin a new journey of their lives as...

  Professor Rafail Ostrovsky won the 2021 J.P. Morgan AI Research Faculty Award. The J.P. Morgan AI Research Awards aim to advance cutting-edge AI research to solve real-world problems. J.P. Morgan’s annual awards support AI research and are a part of their $10...

SeattleCIO announced the winners of its 2021 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. SeattleCIO recognized chief information officers in seven key categories – Leadership, Global, Healthcare, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, & Corporate. The SeattleCIO ORBIE...

Amit Sahai, UCLA’s Symantec Professor of Computer Science, has been named a 2021 Simons Investigator, one of the most prestigious recognitions for faculty members in the prime of their research careers. The Simons Foundation announced Monday its 16 new investigators...

Computer science major Arjun Subramonian graduated summa cum laude in March 2021, amassing not only multiple top awards, but also raising awareness of LGBTQ+ and other underserved communities around Los Angeles. Subramonian (they/them/theirs) is the recipient of...