Four CS Professors Ranked in Top 100 Computer Scientists in U.S.
Earlier this year, UCLA was ranked No. 1 among U.S. public universities in the 2017-18 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and No. 12 worldwide overall in the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University....
Assistant Professor Kai-Wei Chang Receives 2018 Okawa Research Grant
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kai-Wei Chang! We are pleased to announce that he is a recipient of the 2018 Okawa Research Grant for his work on Reducing Implicit Societal Bias in Artificial Intelligence Systems. This year there were six...
UCLA ACM & UPE Receive Chapter Excellence Awards
This year, both UCLA ACM, the largest computer science community at UCLA, and UCLA UPE, a chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines, were recognized for their outstanding achievements as...
Computer Science Students Awarded with HSSEAS Awards and Honors
Every year, UCLA faculty and staff are invited to nominate engineering students for awards and honors recognized in the annual HSSEAS Commencement printed program and school-wide notices. Many of the awards are specific to graduating students. This year,...
Judea Pearl Receives Honorary Doctorate from Yale University
The Computer Science Department is immensely pleased to announce that faculty member Judea Pearl has received an honorary degree—Doctor of Engineering & Technology—from Yale University. Judea received this honor on May 21st at Yale’s 2018 commencement...
Professor Tony Nowatzki Receives NSF CAREER Award to Merge Hardware and Software Design
Tony Nowatzki, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members at the start of their research and teaching...
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky Awarded 2018 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in Mathematics
The RSA Conference Awards, established in 1998, were created to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of individuals and organizations in the field of cryptography, public policy, information security, and security humanitarianism. This year, computer...
CS Ph.D. Student Saikrishna Badrinarayanan Receives 2018 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
Congratulations to CS Ph.D. student Saikrishna Badrinarayanan for being awarded the prestigious 2018 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship! IBM created the PhD Fellowship program in the 1950's to recognize and support outstanding graduate students. The IBM PhD Fellowship...
CS Ph.D. Student Qi Zhao Wins Best Poster Award at IEEE WCNC
Congratulations to computer science Ph.D. student Qi Zhao for being awarded the Best Poster Award for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2018 at Barcelona, Spain. His poster, titled “A Multi-path TCP Solution for Software-Defined Naval...