Professor Sriram Sankararaman Leads Research Team to Develop New Algorithms to Study Genomic Data
UCLA computer scientists and genetics specialists in collaboration with their colleagues from several other institutions have developed a new genomic data computational method. Their improved algorithms can analyze genomic data up to 1,800 times faster than previous...
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky Appointed Norman E. Friedmann Chair in the Knowledge Sciences
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has appointed Rafail Ostrovsky, a distinguished professor of computer science and mathematics, as the new holder of the Norman E. Friedmann Chair in the Knowledge Sciences, effective July 1. Ostrovsky was selected for his...
Professor Nanyun Peng wins Paper Award at 2022 Annual NAACL Conference
Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng won a paper award at the 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). This is the top natural language processing (NLP) conference. The conference will be held in Seattle,...
UCLA CS Students Receive 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Three UCLA Samueli undergraduate and graduate students have received the prestigious 2022 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The three-year fellowship program recognizes and supports outstanding students in science, technology,...
ACM at UCLA receives Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Chapter Website from ACM
ACM at UCLA is one of 700 chapters of ACM in the world. Every year ACM honors 5 chapters for 5 different awards, one being the Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Chapter Website given to the chapter of ACM with an exceptionally outstanding website. ACM...
UCLA CS and Amazon Announce Inaugural Recipients of Research Gifts and Amazon Fellowships
The UCLA Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, a collaboration with Amazon, announced today its first cohort of 12 Amazon fellowships and six gift-funded research projects.Funded by Amazon and housed at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, the UCLA...
2022 Computer Science Graduate Student Awards
Eight graduate students from the UCLA Computer Science department were awarded the 2022 Graduate Student Awards. Congratulations to all awardees! Outstanding Graduating PhD Student: Aayush Jain Outstanding Graduating Masters Student: Ruochen Wang Outstanding Graduate...
Professor George Varghese Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
George Varghese, who holds the Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, was elected Thursday to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Varghese joined 10 other UCLA...
UCLA hosts AI program with Break Through Tech | Professor Reinman to serve as faculty director of LA hub
UCLA will be the first public university to host a Break Through Tech AI hub — part of a national program designed to teach artificial intelligence to a greater diversity of students — bringing AI education to college students from underserved groups across Southern...