Professor Amit Sahai Receives $1.5 Million Grant from NTT Research
UCLA computer science professor, Amit Sahai, has received $1.5 million in support from NTT Research, a division of NTT, to support his research on the leading edge of cryptography, the field of secure communications. NTT announced today the agreement early Tuesday in...
Professor Van den Broeck Receive National Science Foundation Award
Professor Guy Van den Broeck, assistant professor of computer science in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members at the start of their research and teaching...
Professor Netravali Receives NSF CAREER Award
Professor Ravi Netravali, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, 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....
Professor Terzopoulos Awarded 2020 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
Professor Demetri Terzopoulos was selected to receive the 2020 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award. The IEEE Pioneer Award is given to scholars “whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry. The award is presented to outstanding...
Professors Songwu Lu and Carlo Zaniolo Elected ACM Fellows
Professors Songwu Lu and Carlo Zaniolo were elected as ACM Fellows. This is ACM's highest honor and only given to around 1% of ACM Members. ACM honored Professor Zaniolo for his significant contributions to theory and practice of Data Bases and Knowledge Bases and...
Professor Amit Sahai Awarded AWS Machine Learning Research Award
Professor Amit Sahai has been awarded an AWS Machine Learning Research Award (MLRA) for his work on New Approaches for Provably Robust Machine Learning. The AWS Machine Learning Research Award assists researchers in advancing machine learning and its applications over...
Professors Hsieh and Chang Receive Facebook Research Award
CS Assistant Professors Cho-Jui Hsieh and Kai-Wei Chang have been awarded the 2019 Facebook Research Award on Computationally Efficient NLP. The program focused on making NLP models more efficient both at training and testing time to enable production applications of...
Prof. Yizhou Sun wins 2019 Okawa Research Grant
The CS Department is pleased to announce that Professor Yizhou Sun is the recipient of a 2019 Okawa Research Grant. The Okawa Foundation awards these grants for studies and analyzes in the fields of information and telecommunication. This year the six recipients were...
Prof. Jason Cong awarded Google’s Faculty Research Award
Prof. Jason Cong has been named one of the recipients of the Google Faculty Research Award (FRA). The Google FRA program is focused on funding world-class technical research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields. Among 910 proposals from 40 countries...
