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...
UCLA Computer Scientist Named Simons Investigator
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...
UCLA Engineering Outstanding Bachelor Awardee Champions Equity for LGBTQ+ Community
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...
ACM at UCLA Receives 2020 Chapter Excellence Award From World’s Largest Scientific Computing Society
The international Association of Computing Machinery has honored the UCLA student chapter of ACM at UCLA with the 2020-2021 Outstanding Recruitment Student Chapter Excellence Award. This is one of five annual awards given to one student chapter out of almost 700...
Professor Jens Palsberg Received ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award
Professor Jens Palsberg and co-author Nengkun Yu from the University of Technology Sydney have received an ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award for their PLDI'21 paper on "Quantum Abstract Interpretation". This paper proposes an abstraction-interpretation technique...
Ph.D. Student Zhe Zeng won the NEC Student Research Fellowship
Third-year Ph.D. student Zhe Zeng was awarded the NEC Student Research Fellowship grant. The NEC Student Research Fellowship Program provides grants for Ph.D. and postdoctoral research in information and communication technology. Each awardee is assigned a senior...
Professor Yizhou Sun awarded the 2020 Amazon Research Award
Professor Yizhou Sun has been awarded the 2020 Amazon Research Award for her research on Accelerating Graph Neural Network Training. The Amazon Research Awards helps fund outstanding, innovative research proposals across machine learning, robotics, operations...