Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh receives Samsung AI Researcher of the Year
Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh has been presented the Samsung AI Researcher of the Year award. This award “recognizes individuals who have made outstanding research or contributions to the field of AI.” An assistant professor in the UCLA Computer Science Department, Cho-Jui...
Ph.D. student Steven Holtzen wins OOPSLA 2020 Distinguished Paper Awards
Ph.D. student Steven Holtzen and his advisors Profs. Guy Van den Broeck and Todd Millstein won an ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award for their OOPSLA 2020 paper “Scaling Exact Inference for Discrete Probabilistic...
Graduate Student Aayush Jain and Professor Amit Sahai Prove Indistinguishability Obfuscation Could Work
Indistinguishability obfuscation is a cryptographic primitive that provides a formal notion of program obfuscation. It has been flagged as nonexistent by skeptics and deemed impossible to achieve. In a paper titled "Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded...
Computer Science Doctoral Student Difan Zou Named 2020-21 Bloomberg Data Science Fellow
Difan Zou, a doctoral student at UCLA Computer Science, was named the 2020-2021 Bloomberg Data Science Fellow. Zou is being honored for his research that complements the ongoing artificial intelligence research at Bloomberg. The fellows receive financial support and...
Paper from UCLA Scalable Analytics Institute wins Best Student Paper Award at ACM-BCB 2020
The paper titled "Bio-JOIE: Joint Representation Learning of Biological Knowledge Bases," by Junheng Hao, Chelsea Ju, Muhao Chen, Yizhou Sun, Carlo Zaniolo, and Wei Wang from the UCLA Scalable Analytics Institute (ScAi), has been recognized with the Best Student Paper...
Professor Miryung Kim and former students receive the 10 Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at ICSME 2020
Professor Miryung Kim and her former students Kyle Prete, Napol Rachatasumrit, and Nikita Sudan received ICSME's 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at the 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). Their...
Professor Jason Cong appointed as the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence in the Samueli School of Engineering
Professor Jason Cong has been appointed as the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence in the Samueli School of Engineering. Prof. Cong joined the UCLA faculty in 1990. He is the Director of Center for Domain-Specific Computing (funded by an NSF Expeditions in...
UCLA Cryptographers Solve Two-Decade-Old Problem
A joint project sponsored by NTT Research with cryptographers from UCLA and University of Washington has solved a 20-year-old problem involving indistinguishability obfuscation — the notion of making a computer program “unintelligible” while preserving its...
CS Alum Spearheads Contactless Information Exchange with New App
Jason Alvarez-Cohen is the co-founder and CEO of Popl, a new company behind a smartphone accessory and app, which allows users to share their information with other phones wirelessly while maintaining social distancing. The technology is meant to act as a replacement...