UCLA Engineering Outstanding Bachelor Awardee Champions Equity for LGBTQ+ Community
Computer science major Arjun Subramonian graduated summa cum laude in March 2021, amassing not only multiple top awards, but also raising awareness of LGBTQ+ and other underserved communities around Los Angeles. Subramonian (they/them/theirs) is the recipient of...
ACM at UCLA Receives 2020 Chapter Excellence Award From World’s Largest Scientific Computing Society
The international Association of Computing Machinery has honored the UCLA student chapter of ACM at UCLA with the 2020-2021 Outstanding Recruitment Student Chapter Excellence Award. This is one of five annual awards given to one student chapter out of almost 700...
Professor Jens Palsberg Received ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award
Professor Jens Palsberg and co-author Nengkun Yu from the University of Technology Sydney have received an ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award for their PLDI'21 paper on "Quantum Abstract Interpretation". This paper proposes an abstraction-interpretation technique...
Ph.D. Student Zhe Zeng won the NEC Student Research Fellowship
Third-year Ph.D. student Zhe Zeng was awarded the NEC Student Research Fellowship grant. The NEC Student Research Fellowship Program provides grants for Ph.D. and postdoctoral research in information and communication technology. Each awardee is assigned a senior...
Professor Yizhou Sun awarded the 2020 Amazon Research Award
Professor Yizhou Sun has been awarded the 2020 Amazon Research Award for her research on Accelerating Graph Neural Network Training. The Amazon Research Awards helps fund outstanding, innovative research proposals across machine learning, robotics, operations...
Professor Hsieh and His Students Won the ICLR 2021 Outstanding Paper Award
Computer Science students Ruochen Wang, Minhao Cheng, Xiangning Chen, and faculty Cho-Jui Hsieh, in collaboration with Xiaocheng Tang at DiDi Research, have received the Outstanding Paper Award from the International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR 2021)...
Professor Miryung Kim Gives Distinguished Lectures at UIUC and University of Minnesota on Software Engineering for Data Analytics
Professor Kim has taken a leadership role in defining the emerging area of Software Engineering for Data Analytics (SE4DA) and was invited to give a Distinguished Lecture at both UIUC Computer Science and University Minnesota's Cray Distinguished Speaker Series....
Professor Kai-Wei Chang and Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh Receive Google Research Scholar Award
Professor Kai-Wei Chang and Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh have been awarded the 2021 Google Research Scholar Award. The Google Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google. The grant program provides...
Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh Receives NSF CAREER Award to Make Machine Learning Smarter and Safer
Cho-Jui Hsieh, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early stages of their teaching and research careers. The...