Professor Cong receives UIUC Grainger CoE Alumni Award for Distinguished Service
UCLA Computer Science Professor Jason Cong received the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Grainger College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service. This prestigious award recognizes alumni who have made exceptional contributions to...
Carlo Zaniolo Wins 2025 Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
UCLA emeritus professor Carlo Zaniolo has received the 2025 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, which recognizes major, lasting contributions to database systems. The award is named after Edgar Codd, who revolutionized data management by introducing the...
Kai-Wei Chang Recognized Among IEEE’s Top 10 Rising Stars in AI
Dr. Kai-Wei Chang, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at UCLA, has been named one of AI’s 10 to Watch by the IEEE Computer Society. This biennial recognition highlights ten rising stars in artificial intelligence from around the world, selected for...
UCLA Professor Jens Palsberg Delivers Keynote at Premier Programming Languages Symposium
On January 24, 2025, at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) in Denver, UCLA Computer Science Professor Jens Palsberg delivered a keynote address titled “Welcome to Quantum 3.0!” POPL is a leading international forum for researchers,...
UCLA Professor Jason Cong Receives ACM Computing Breakthrough Award
Jason Cong, a distinguished professor of computer science and holder of the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the 2024 Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award from the Association for...
UCLA Professor Raghu Meka Receives Prestigious IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award
Raghu Meka, a professor in UCLA’s Computer Science Department, has been named the recipient of the 2025 W. Wallace McDowell Award by the IEEE Computer Society. This honor recognizes Professor Meka for his contributions to complexity theory, pseudorandomness,...
UCLA ACM Chapter Holds Hybrid Cybersecurity Competition
ACM Cyber, a student-organized community within the UCLA chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, recently held its third annual Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition at Covel Commons and online. The annual event, which has drawn approximately 100...
Professor Jason Cong and Co-Authors Inducted into the Class of 2025 FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Professor Jason Cong and his co-authors on the induction of their paper, "Optimizing Field-Programmable Gate Array-Based Accelerator Design for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks," into the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame (Class of...
Distinguished Professor Lixia Zhang Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Lixia Zhang, a distinguished professor and current Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Networks in the UCLA Computer Science Department, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors granted to American engineers....