Professor Jason Cong Delivers Keynote at KDD 2025
Professor Jason Cong, Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at UCLA, delivered a keynote address at the 31st ACM KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2025) in Toronto, Canada. Cong’s talk, “Deep Learning Meets Chip Design: Driving Next-Gen...
Professor Raghu Meka to be an Invited Speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2026
In recognition of his groundbreaking work in combinatorics and theoretical computer science, UCLA Computer Science Professor Raghu Meka has been invited to deliver a talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2026. Meka, together with co-author Zander...
Professor Jason Cong Presents Keynote on “Democratize Chip Design” at the 2025 Design Automation Conference
On June 25, 2025, Professor Jason Cong delivered a keynote address titled “Democratize Chip Design” at the 62nd Association for Computing Machinery and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Design Automation Conference, the premier international event in...
Congratulations to Zijian Ding on Receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
We are excited to congratulate Zijian Ding, a second-year PhD student supervised by Prof. Jason Cong, on being selected for the competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based degrees in...
Sophomore CS Student Earns 2025 Goldwater Scholarship
Second-year computer science student Edward Sun from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has earned the Goldwater Scholarship, a nationally competitive award that honors undergraduate students who show exceptional promise as researchers in science, technology,...
UCLA and Partner Institutions Win Top Honors for Shell Benchmark Research at Final USENIX ATC
A recent paper co-authored by researchers from UCLA, Brown, and Stevens received the Best Paper Award at the 50th and final USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), held in Boston in July 2025. The paper, available here, introduces Koala, a benchmark suite designed...
CS Professor Aditya Grover Receives Top Early Career AI Award
Aditya Grover, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the Computers and Thought Award, which recognizes early career researchers for notable contributions to artificial intelligence. Grover is recognized for...
Professor Todd Millstein and Collaborators Win 2025 ACM SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award for Batfish
Professor Todd Millstein and his collaborators have received the prestigious 2025 ACM SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award for their work on Batfish, an open-source software system that has transformed network operations. In today’s digital world, the availability and...
CS Professor Judea Pearl Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been elected to the United Kingdom’s Royal Society, widely recognized as one of the most prestigious scholarly societies in the world. The society announced today...