Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng Received the Google Research Scholar Award
UCLA Professor Nanyun Violet Peng recently received the 2023 Google Research Scholar Award. The Research Scholar Program supports research at institutions around the world, awarding grants up to $60,000 USD, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by...
UCLA-Led Team Finds Lingering Effects of Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans
Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of modern non-Africans, but the question remained open on how much those genes are still actively influencing human traits — until now. A multi-institution research...
UCLA Tortellini Advances to ICPC World Finals
At the 2023 North America Championship (NAC) of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), held in Orlando, Florida, on May 29, three Samueli School of Engineering computer science students Niklil Roashan Selvam, Rishi Sankar, and Jason Liu represented...
UCLA Computer Science Alumni Receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
Aayush Jain, a UCLA Alumni, received the prestigious 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his thesis titled "Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Studied Assumptions." This groundbreaking research demonstrated the viability of rigorous software obfuscation...
Jason Cong received the “Global Industry Leader” Award from ChipEx 2023
UCLA Professor Jason Cong, received the "Global Industry Leader" Award from ChipEx'2023 on May 8, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel, for his groundbreaking research and development that has revolutionized electronic design automation and FPGA design methods. Additionally, his...
Award-Winning AI Scientist Yizhou Sun: Pioneering Graph Mining and Advancing the Boundaries of Artificial Intelligence
Yizhou Sun, an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at UCLA, has been recognized by IEEE Intelligent Systems as one of the "AI 10 to Watch," a prestigious acknowledgment of young and aspiring AI scientists. Sun's groundbreaking work in...
Computer Science Student Aims to Break Bamboo Ceiling for Asian Americans
Just like the Chinese laundry stereotype persists so are many Filipinos who continue to be typeset as nurses or physician assistants. Often grouped as part of the model minority, Filipinos and other Asian Americans are not as well represented in engineering and...
UCLA ACM Student Chapter wins the 2022-2023 ACM Outstanding Chapter Activities Award
The International Association of Computing and Machinery (ACM) has awarded the UCLA student chapter of ACM the 2022-2023 Outstanding Chapter Activities Student Chapter Excellence Award. This marks the sixth time that ACM at UCLA has received this award in the past...
Professor Carey Nachenberg wins 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award
UCLA professor Carey Nachenberg has been selected by the Distinguished Teaching Award Selection Committee to receive the Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty. He is one of the three awardees selected from a large pool of extraordinary nominees. This...