Professors Kai-Wei Chang and Ravi Netravali Awarded the 2021 Sloan Fellowship
Professors Kai-Wei Chang and Ravi Netravali have been awarded the 2021 Sloan Fellowship. Professor Chang’s work on “quantifying and mitigating societal bias in natural language processing (NLP) and developing efficient algorithms for structured output prediction...
Professor Judea Pearl and UCLA join Toyota Research Institute’s AI program
Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been selected to join the Toyota Research Institute’s program on artificial intelligence. With more than $750,000 in funding over the next two years, his research...
Professor Glenn Reinman wins MICRO Test of Time Award
Professor Glenn Reinman won the Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture MICRO Test of Time Award for his seminal paper "Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching." The Test of Time Award is the highest honor an academic paper receives for its...
Professor Wei Wang elected as Association for Computing Machinery fellow
Wei Wang, Leonard Kleinrock Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been elected as a 2020 fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest scientific and educational society for computing professionals. The...
Four UCLA faculty named to National Academy of Inventors
Four professors from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been chosen as 2020 fellows by the National Academy of Inventors. Election to an academy fellowship is the highest professional distinction exclusive for inventors and innovators from academic...
Time Magazine Names UCLA-Developed Hospital Scanner One of 2020 Top Inventions
An advanced wireless scanner developed at UCLA that can help detect bedsores in advance has been named one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2020. The magazine’s annual list highlights game-changing innovations in several categories, including design,...
Professor Todd Millstein Wins Three Best Paper Awards in 3 Top 2020 Programming Language/System Conferences
Professor Todd Millstein won Best Paper Awards in three conferences: OOPSLA (Programming Language), PLDI (Programming Language), and SIGCOMM (Networks/Systems). These top conferences in their respective areas have low acceptance rates. To receive the Best Paper Award...
Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh receives Samsung AI Researcher of the Year
Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh has been presented the Samsung AI Researcher of the Year award. This award “recognizes individuals who have made outstanding research or contributions to the field of AI.” An assistant professor in the UCLA Computer Science Department, Cho-Jui...
Ph.D. student Steven Holtzen wins OOPSLA 2020 Distinguished Paper Awards
Ph.D. student Steven Holtzen and his advisors Profs. Guy Van den Broeck and Todd Millstein won an ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award for their OOPSLA 2020 paper “Scaling Exact Inference for Discrete Probabilistic...