UCLA CS Joins Leap Alliance to Promote Diversity
The UCLA Computer Science Department has joined the Diversifying LEAdership in the Professoriate (LEAP) Alliance, whose goal is to increase the diversity of faculty in computing at research universities. Led by the (Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities...
UCLA Samueli Welcomes Bolei Zhou as Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Bolei Zhou will join the Computer Science Department at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering in early January as an assistant professor, bringing with him his expertise in computer vision and machine autonomy. Zhou plans to explore human-centric artificial...
Student Aishwarya Sivaraman Received the 2021 Google Ph.D. Fellowship.
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....
Computer Science faculty Cho-Jui Hsieh and students Zhouxing Shi and Yihan Wang won VNN-Comp’21
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,...
Professor Amit Sahai Invited to Deliver Special Sectional Lecture at ICM
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 CS Alumna and Tech Nonprofit Founder Selected 2021 TED Fellow
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...
Eleven UCLA CS Ph.D. students and Postdocs Receive Faculty Offers
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 wins the 2021 J.P. Morgan AI Research Awards
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...
CS Alumni Edmond Mesrobian named SeattleCIO 2021 CIO of the Year
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...