Prof. Rafail Ostrovsky Develops Technologies for New Legislation to Empower Students
Recently, computer science professor Rafail Ostrovsky has been involved in developing technologies which play an integral role in a new piece of legislation aiming to help students make more informed decisions on where they go to college. The new...
Professor Miryung Kim Leads $4.9M ONR Project on Synergistic Software Customization
UCLA computer science professors Miryung Kim and Jens Palsberg, along with UC Irvine computer science professor Harry Xu, were recently awarded a $4.9 million grant from the Office of Naval Research for their project on Synergistic Software Customization....
Professor Stanley Osher Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Election to the academy is among the highest distinctions for an engineer. Three faculty members in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science – Ann Karagozian, Stanley Osher, and Ali Sayed – have been elected to the National Academy...
Best Paper Award at ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games 2017
The Computer Science Department congratuates graduate students Tomer Weiss, Alan Litteneker, Chenfanfu Jiang and their advisor Demetri Terzopoulos on a Best Paper Award for “Position-Based Multi-Agent Dynamics for Real-Time Crowd Simulation” from the ACM...
CS Ph.D. Students Win Yelp Dataset Challenge
Congratulations to computer science Ph.D. students Ruirui Li, Chelsea J-T. Ju, Jyun-Yu Jiang, and their advisor, Professor Wei Wang. These three graduate students recently participated in Round 9 of the Yelp Dataset Challenge. Their paper—“CORALS: Who are...
George Varghese: Lecturer at IIT Mumbai Techfest
Congratulations to Professsor George Varghese! We are pleased to announce that Dr. Varghese was formally invited to give a talk at IIT Bombay’s Techfest this past December. Techfest is Asia’s largest science and technology festival, featuring informative...
UCLA and Cornell Win Award from Intel and the National Science Foundation For Heterogeneous Computing Research Effort
December 18, 2017 - A team comprised of UCLA and Cornell researchers were recently awarded a $1.7 million award from Intel and the National Science Foundation for their project, “A Multi-Paradigm Programming Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Architectures”....
CS Professor Judea Pearl Receives Prize From American Mathematical Society
Judea Pearl, emeritus professor of computer science and statistics, will receive the American Mathematical Society’s 2018 Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling for the invention of a model-based approach to probabilistic and causal...
UCLA Researchers Enable Premier Internet Conference
Every year, ACM’s Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) holds its flagship conference to report recent advances in Internet design. This year, the SIGCOMM conference was held at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center, with UCLA computer science...