Four UCLA faculty named to National Academy of Inventors
Four professors from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been chosen as 2020 fellows by the National Academy of Inventors. Election to an academy fellowship is the highest professional distinction exclusive for inventors and innovators from academic...
Time Magazine Names UCLA-Developed Hospital Scanner One of 2020 Top Inventions
An advanced wireless scanner developed at UCLA that can help detect bedsores in advance has been named one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2020. The magazine’s annual list highlights game-changing innovations in several categories, including design,...
Professor Todd Millstein Wins Three Best Paper Awards in 3 Top 2020 Programming Language/System Conferences
Professor Todd Millstein won Best Paper Awards in three conferences: OOPSLA (Programming Language), PLDI (Programming Language), and SIGCOMM (Networks/Systems). These top conferences in their respective areas have low acceptance rates. To receive the Best Paper Award...
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...