Prof. Jason Cong & UCLA Miniscope Team Receive $8.3 Million Grant From NSF
Computer Science Professor Jason Cong, in collaboration with five other UCLA researchers, has recently been awarded an $8.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to further fund the team’s research on their open-source mini microscope project....
Professor Miryung Kim: Mommy Computer Science Camp
In addition to her demanding responsibility as a computer science professor and researcher, Miryung Kim is also a mother of her 4 year old daughter, Sophia. As a female professor in a male dominant field, Kim knew that she wanted to teach her daughter...
MEMSYS Best Paper Awards: Professor Jason Cong, Glenn Reinman, & Collaborative Teams
Congratulations to Computer Science Department authors Jason Cong, Zhenman Fang, Michael Gill, Farnoosh Javadi, and Glenn Reinman have received a Best Paper Award at MEMSYS 2017, held on October 2-5 in Washington DC, for their recent paper AIM:...
UCLA CS Students Win UPE Scholarship Awards
Congratulations to computer science undergraduate students Cristen Anderson and Jayendra Ashutosh Jog for receiving the UPE Executive Council Award and the UPE Scholarship Award respectively from the Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Honor Society for the...
Augmented Reality: Making it secure, fast, efficient and resilient
Collaborative wireless networking AR project gets $2 million funding boost from NSF and Intel. Will use Named Data Networking as foundation A team of researchers from UCLA and New Mexico State University have received $2 million in funding from the...
EMNLP Best Paper Awards: Professor Kai-Wei Chang and Collaborative Teams
Congratulations to Professor Kai-Wei Chang and his collaborative teams on their best paper awards. Kai-Wei Chang, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Department of Computer Science, will be joining the UCLA Computer Science Department as an...
Jason Cong and Yuzheng Ding: TCFPGA Hall of Fame Paper
This year, computer science professor Jason Cong and former UCLA student Yuzheng Ding were recognized by the TCFPGA Hall of Fame for their 1994 paper, FlowMap: An Optimal Technology Mapping Algorithm for Delay Optimization in Lookup-Table Based FPGA Designs. The...
Professor Miryung Kim Receives Faculty in Residence Faculty of the Year Award
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...
Prof. Sriram Sankararaman Receives 2017 Okawa Foundation Research Grant
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 who show...