From London to LA, CS Undergrad Seeks Connections Between AI and Neurotechnology
A first-year computer science student from the United Kingdom, Neha Adapala is embracing the transition to UCLA, navigating differences between American and British English to trading London’s gray skies for Los Angeles sunshine. She has also kept busy applying...
CS Teaching Assistant Alexis Korb Awarded at UCLA Night to Honor Teaching
At UCLA’s 2025 Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching, three Samueli engineering awardees were among the 17 members across campus recognized for their commitment to education, including graduate student teaching assistant Alexis Korb from Computer Science. Korb, along...
Congratulations to Jiahao Zhang and Zifan He for Winning the Adaptive Computing Category of the 2025 AMD Open Hardware Competition
Congratulations to PhD students Jiahao Zhang and Zifan He for winning the Adaptive Computing category of the 2025 AMD Open Hardware competition. Supervised by Professor Jason Cong, the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at UCLA, the team won the award for their...
UCLA CS Postdoc Dr. Wayne Wu Receives 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research
Dr. Wayne Wu, a postdoctoral scholar in the UCLA Computer Science Department, has been selected as one of eight recipients of the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research. This award is the highest recognition for postdoctoral scholarship at UCLA, and honors...
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky Delivers Strachey Lecture at University of Oxford
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky, the Norman E. Friedman Chair in Knowledge Sciences at UCLA, delivered the prestigious Strachey Lecture at the University of Oxford on October 21. This lecture is the Department of Computer Science’s flagship of this public lecture series....
Professor Jason Cong Wins 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award at ICCAD 2025
Professor Jason Cong, the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at UCLA, has been honored with the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). The award recognizes the lasting...
Six UCLA CS Doctoral Students Named Amazon AI Fellows
Six doctoral students from the Computer Science Department are among the fifteen students from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering who have been selected as Amazon AI Ph.D. fellows through the company’s new $68 million program supporting more than 100...
First Generation UCLA CS Student Secures NVIDIA Internship
Growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Wanda Barahona rarely had access to computers. But those early glimpses of technology sparked a curiosity that would eventually lead her to internships at Lockheed Martin and Nvidia, two of the world’s top tech companies....
AI For Math Fund Awards Raghu Meka
Computer Science Professor Raghu Meka, along with his collaborator, Princeton Professor Pravesh Kothari, have been awarded support from the AI for Math Fund, which is managed by Renaissance Philanthropy in partnership with founding donor XTX Markets. Their project...