This year, computer science professor and faculty-in-residence Miryung Kim has been awarded with the Faculty/Staff of the Year Award, given by the UCLA chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary. This award recognizes outstanding faculty-in-residence mentors for...
Professor Sriram Sankararaman has been named a 2017 Okawa Foundation Research Grant recipient for his research in “methods for inferring human population structure and its role in evolution and disease”. The $10,000 grant is awarded annually to researchers...
UCLA computer science professors Sriram Sankararaman and Ameet Talwalkar have received a $718,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to apply machine learning tools to analyze massively large sets of human genomic data. Ultimately, this research could lead to...
This year, out of over 680 student chapters worldwide, UCLA ACM has been awarded with the 2016-2017 ACM Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Activities. The UCLA Association for Computing Machinery is a branch of ACM, an international organization which...
This year, computer science professor Eli Gafni and one of his former Ph.D. students, Elizabeth Borowsky, have been awarded the 2017 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their 1993 publication, “Generalized FLP impossibility result for t-resilient...
ACM Cloud's weekly research seminars, where students discuss the latest research papers involving distributed systems and work in small teams to replicate, implement, and extend [...]
ABSTRACT: The security and architecture communities will remember the past five years as the era of side channels. Starting from Spectre and Meltdown, time and [...]
ACM AI's weekly research seminars, where students discuss the latest research papers involving machine learning and work in small teams to replicate, implement, and extend [...]
ACM Studio's weekly workshops for their flagship series, Student-Run-Studios (SRS). Teams of students work under the guidance of ACM officers as they build their own [...]