CS Professor and Department Chair Wei Wang Receives ACM Innovation Award
Wei Wang, a professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the Innovation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest professional computing society. The Innovation Award is...
Professor Jason Cong Delivered Keynote at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design
Professor Jason Cong delivered a keynote speech "Chip Design Creation in the Agentic Era” on July 31 at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD). In his keynote, Professor Cong examined how large language models and agentic AI are changing...
Two CS Alumni Mentored by Professor Miryung Kim Win 2026 NSF CAREER Award
UCLA Computer Science Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies Miryung Kim is celebrating a milestone in her academic mentorship. Two of her former advisees, Muhammad Ali Gulzar (now an assistant professor at Virginia Tech) and Qian Zhang (now...
Judea Pearl Named AI Pioneer by Boston Global Forum in Honor of America’s 250th Anniversary
Judea Pearl, a chancellor’s professor emeritus of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been named one of 50 AI Pioneers by nonprofit think tank Boston Global Forum and its AI World Society initiative. The recognition honors prominent U.S....
Professor MIryung Kim Gives Keynote at PLDI 2026
UCLA Computer Science Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies Miryung Kim delivered a prestigious keynote address at the 47th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2026). PLDI is a premier conference for programming...
UCLA CS PhD Seth Z. Zhao and His Team Win the 2026 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
UCLA Computer Science PhD candidate Seth Z. Zhao and teammate Zewei Zhou have been awarded the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) North America 2026, one of the most competitive and prestigious fellowships in computer science and electrical engineering. The...
UCLA CS Professor Bolei Zhou’s Lab Joins Toyota Research Institute’s University Research Program 3.0 to Build Next-Generation Driving Simulator
The UCLA Department of Computer Science has joined the newest cohort of the Toyota Research Institute’s University Research Program (URP) 3.0, a five-year initiative supporting collaborative research in artificial intelligence, robotics and automated driving....
Paper by Professor Jason Cong Once Again Inducted into the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Professor Jason Cong on the induction of his paper, “DAOmap: A Depth-Optimal Area Optimization Mapping Algorithm for FPGA Designs,” into the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame, Class of 2026. Cong co-authored the paper with his...
CS Professors’ AI Research Project Awarded Laude Moonshots Grant
A team of six UCLA faculty members spanning artificial intelligence, computer science and mathematics has received a $250,000 seed grant from the Laude Institute as part of its inaugural Moonshots initiative, which supports university-led efforts to solve some...