At 90, CS Professor Judea Pearl is Still Asking the Big Questions
UCLA celebrated the birthday of one of its most enduring luminaires, Computer Science Professor Judea Pearl, with the event Pearl@90: Honoring Judea Pearl. The day-long session featured a tour of Pearl's academic and personal life, including remarks by UCLA Chancellor...
UCLA Named America’s Number 1 Public University
The prestigious U.S. News and World Report annual college rankings have been released, and UCLA has once again earned the lauded top spot, tying with UC Berkeley for the No. 1 position. U.S. News and World Report also ranks selected programs from the colleges, and...
CS Professor Saadia Gabriel Receives Amazon Research Award to Advance AI for African Languages
Saadia Gabriel, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received an Amazon Research Award to develop artificial intelligence and natural language processing models that better support African languages.Gabriel received...
From Backyard Ziplines to Self-Driving Cars: CS Student Alexandra Markova Works to Safely Network Autonomous Vehicles
One of the fondest childhood memories of Alexandra Markova was a weekend spent running around Home Depot with her father and three siblings. They gathered parts to string a makeshift zipline across the backyard of their home in a small Illinois town before the family...
CS Professors Jason Cong and Jens Palsberg to Co-Lead 2 NSF Quantum Computing Institutes
Two computer scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been selected as co-principal investigators on separate quantum computing institutes funded by the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI). The five-year grants of...
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....