Amazon Fellowships Support 26 UCLA CS Doctoral Students in a Single Academic Quarter
Twenty-six Computer Science doctoral students are among the 42-student cohort who received Amazon fellowships for the 2026 winter quarter through three programs coordinated by the Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, a collaboration between...
UCLA Team Including 4 CS Professors Awarded $5 Million DARPA Contract to Develop AI for Math Advancement
A team of UCLA computer scientists and mathematicians has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop artificial intelligence tools aimed at transforming how mathematical discoveries are made,...
Professor Jason Cong Receives Harold Pender Award from Penn Engineering
Professor Jason Cong, Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at UCLA, received the Harold Pender Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania "for groundbreaking contributions in field-programmable gate arrays and...
Cryptography Pioneer and CS Professor Amit Sahai Named IEEE Fellow
Amit Sahai, a professor of computer science and holder of the Symantec Term Chair in Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was honored for his...
UCLA PhD Alumni Aayush Jain Wins 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship
Aayush Jain, who received his PhD in 2021 from UCLA Computer Science under the supervision of Professor Amit Sahai, was awarded the prestigious 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship for his research in Cryptography. Now an assistant professor of Computer Science at Carnegie...
Professor Miryung Kim Receives IEEE TCSE New Directions Award, Presented by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Software Engineering (TCSE).
Professor Miryung Kim, Vice Chair of Graduate Studies in the UCLA Computer Science Department, has received the 2026 IEEE TCSE New Directions Award. This research impact award is presented annually to an individual or team whose pioneering software engineering...
From London to LA, CS Undergrad Seeks Connections Between AI and Neurotechnology
A first-year computer science student from the United Kingdom, Neha Adapala is embracing the transition to UCLA, navigating differences between American and British English to trading London’s gray skies for Los Angeles sunshine. She has also kept busy applying...
CS Teaching Assistant Alexis Korb Awarded at UCLA Night to Honor Teaching
At UCLA’s 2025 Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching, three Samueli engineering awardees were among the 17 members across campus recognized for their commitment to education, including graduate student teaching assistant Alexis Korb from Computer Science. Korb, along...
Congratulations to Jiahao Zhang and Zifan He for Winning the Adaptive Computing Category of the 2025 AMD Open Hardware Competition
Congratulations to PhD students Jiahao Zhang and Zifan He for winning the Adaptive Computing category of the 2025 AMD Open Hardware competition. Supervised by Professor Jason Cong, the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at UCLA, the team won the award for their...