UCLA Ph.D. Tanmay Parekh Awarded the Bloomberg Data Science Fellowship
Tanmay Parekh, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at UCLA, has been awarded the prestigious Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship for the academic year 2025-2026. This fellowship recognizes and supports up to ten outstanding doctoral...
UCLA Contributes to NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins with Advanced Machine Learning Research
UCLA’s Assistant Professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman is leading the university’s efforts in the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (NSF-Simons CosmicAI). This $20 million, five-year collaboration, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Simons...
UCLA Computer Science Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award for Research on Generative AI to Aid Scientific Discovery
Aditya Grover, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support his research designing artificial intelligence models that can expedite the pace of scientific...
UCLA Professor Jason Cong Wins the 2024 Phil Kaufman Award—A Feature on SemiWiki’s Podcast
Dr. Jason Cong, a distinguished professor at UCLA, has been awarded the 2024 Phil Kaufman Award, widely regarded as the "Nobel Prize of EDA" (Electronic Design Automation). This recognition, presented by the Electronic System Design Alliance and IEEE’s Council on...
Baharan Mirzasoleiman Wins Okawa Research Foundation Grant
Dr. Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCLA, has been awarded the prestigious Okawa Research Foundation Grant for her groundbreaking work in sustainable training of foundation machine learning models. This competitive...
Professor Aditya Grover Receives NSF Career Award
Aditya Grover, an assistant professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been given the prestigious NSF CAREER award, the National Science Foundation's highest honor for early-career faculty. While the award involves both an application...
UCLA Computer Science Welcomes Six Faculty Members
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has recently added six new faculty members to its Computer Science Department. Their collective expertise spans critical areas such as machine learning, robotics, quantum computing, and scalable software systems, enriching the...
Professor Judea Pearl Honored with the 2024 Kampé de Fériet Award
The Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty (IPMU) has awarded the esteemed 2024 Kampé de Fériet Award to Professor Judea. A prominent figure in the fields of computer science and statistics at UCLA, Pearl also directs the Cognitive Systems...
UCLA Professor Demetri Terzopoulos Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Demetri Terzopoulos, UCLA Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science, was honored as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) in April 2024. This prestigious recognition highlights his exceptional contributions to the field of...