Professor Jason Cong appointed as the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence in the Samueli School of Engineering
Professor Jason Cong has been appointed as the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence in the Samueli School of Engineering. Prof. Cong joined the UCLA faculty in 1990. He is the Director of Center for Domain-Specific Computing (funded by an NSF Expeditions in...
UCLA Cryptographers Solve Two-Decade-Old Problem
A joint project sponsored by NTT Research with cryptographers from UCLA and University of Washington has solved a 20-year-old problem involving indistinguishability obfuscation — the notion of making a computer program “unintelligible” while preserving its...
CS Alum Spearheads Contactless Information Exchange with New App
Jason Alvarez-Cohen is the co-founder and CEO of Popl, a new company behind a smartphone accessory and app, which allows users to share their information with other phones wirelessly while maintaining social distancing. The technology is meant to act as a replacement...
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky Appointed to Future of Encryption Committee by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky was appointed to the Future of Encryption Committee by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The ad hoc committee's role is to identify potential scenarios over the next 10 to 20 years for the balance between...
Professor Judea Pearl wins Classic AI Paper Award from the AI Journal
Professor Judea Pearl has won his second Classic AI Paper Award given by the AI Journal for his paper "Temporal Constraint Networks" with coauthors (then UCLA students) Rina Dechter and Itay...
UC to lead group awarded $25M by NSF to launch quantum computing institute
The National Science Foundation today announced a five-year, $25 million award to UC Berkeley, UCLA and other universities to create the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Present and Future Quantum Computation. The institute will work to overcome scientific...
Professor Jens Palsberg Elected to Executive Committee of Global Scientific Computing Society
Jens Palsberg, a professor of computer science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been elected to the Association for Computing Machinery’s Executive Committee and will serve as chair of the Special Interest Group Governing Board for a two-year term. As chair,...
Professor Judea Pearl named to Carnegie Corporation’s annual great immigrants list
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has named Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, as a 2020 honoree of its annual Great Immigrants program. The list, released by the philanthropic foundation every July...
Professor George Varghese delivered a keynote speech in IFIP Networking 2020
Professor George Varghese delivered a keynote speech in IFIP Networking 2020 titled "Network Verification: When Clarke Meets Cerf." The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2020 Conference (NETWORKING 2020) is a leading conference...