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...
Professor Miryung Kim Gave Distinguished Lecture at CMU
Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Software and Societal Systems Department invited computer science professor Miryung Kim to give a Distinguished Lecture regarding her work on "Software Engineering for AI" as part of their S3D Distinguished...
Professor Amit Sahai wins 2023 IACR Test of Time Award
Amit Sahai, a professor of Computer Science and Mathematics and the holder of UCLA’s Symantec Endowed Chair in Computer Science, has been selected as the 2023 Test of Time Award recipient for his paper titled "Efficient Non-interactive Proof Systems for Bilinear...
George Varghese Releases Second Edition of his Book Network Algorithmics
George Varghese, Jonathan B. Postel Networking Chair at UCLA, has released the second edition of his book, “Network Algorithmics”. Varghese is deeply passionate about the interdisciplinary approach to designing fast networked devices and his book addresses the...
Jens Palsberg to Receive UCLA Samueli 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award
Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields. Professor Jens Palsberg is a recipient of the Eon Instrumentation Inc....
Triple Bruin Alumna Shares Lessons Learnt from Academia to Industry
From the time she first took apart a computer at age 13 so she could install a CD-ROM to play more video games, to now leading a business development team at X — formerly Google X, Diana Skaar ’00, M.S. ’08, MBA ’08 has come a long way in breaking the bamboo ceiling....
Lixia Zhang Awarded Grant from Omidyar Network
Lixia Zhang, professor of Computer Systems at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Omidyar Network. The grant, presented earlier this month at South by Southwest, is part of the inaugural Future of Data Challenge, which...
UCLA CS Faculty Leads Efforts to Democratize AI Research on Autonomous Driving
Bolei Zhou, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a three-year, $960,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to lead the development of MetaDriverse – a new open-source simulation platform aiming to...
Break Through Tech AI at UCLA, Builds Diversified Tech Talent Pipelines
Break Through Tech AI is a free program that launched (the summer of 2022) at UCLA. This program aims to connect underrepresented students across Southern California to the skills necessary for careers in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence....