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....
UCLA CS Faculty Named Among Top Most Influential Scholars
In 2023, several faculty in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles were named among the top one hundred AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars worldwide in fields of computer science. The AI 2000 ranking highlights the contributions of...
UCLA Professor Raghu Meka and Zander Kelley achieve a breakthrough in mathematics
In an exciting new development in mathematics, Zander Kelley (a student at UIUC) and UCLA CS faculty Raghu Meka have obtained a new result for a 70-year-old number theory problem. The question is whether a set S of integers in [1, N] containing at least N/C elements...
UCLA CS Faculty Join New Effort in Next-Generation Electronic Technologies
Two faculty members in the UCLA Computer Science department have been named part of a major public-private consortium that is aiming for big gains in the performance, efficiency and capabilities of broad classes of information and communication technologies. The...
Professor Amit Sahai to Serve as FOCS 2023 PC Chair
Professor Amit Sahai has been selected to serve as the Program Committee Chair for the 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) symposium. The IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) is the...
UCLA Leonard Kleinrock Chair Professor Wei Wang Elected IEEE Fellow
Wei Wang, a professor of computer science and the holder of the Leonard Kleinrock Term Chair at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been selected as a fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her contributions to data mining. The...
UCLA Researchers Receive ASP-DAC’2023 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award
Professor Jason Cong and his former Ph.D. students Guojie Luo and Bingjun Xiao and former postdoc Kalliopi Tsota received the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award this week from the 28th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC’2023 )...