Prof. Sriram Sankararaman & Ameet Talwalkar Receive NSF Grant
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...
UCLA ACM Receives Student Chapter Excellence Award
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...
Prof. Eli Gafni and Elizabeth Borowsky Receive 2017 Dijkstra Prize
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...
2016-2017 CS Graduate Student Research and Commencement Award Recipients
Top row, left to right: Steven Holtzen, Arman Yousefi, Matthew Brown. Bottom row, left to right: Dakshita Khurana, Tianyi Zhang, Peng Wei. We are happy to announce the recipients of the 2016-2017 CS Graduate Student Research and Commencement Awards!Outstanding...
Discover UCLA Engineering: HSSEAS Open House Recap
Every year, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science invites prospective engineering students to visit the campus and learn more about the engineering program here at UCLA. This year, the Engineering Open House was held on April 9, and with over...
ThousandEyes: A Look Inside Two UCLA Alumni’s $273 Million Startup
Seven years ago, UCLA alumni Mohit Lad and Ricardo Oliveira moved to the Bay Area to start a company built on cast-off computers picked up from a recycled computer store. Now their startup has a valuation of over $273 million, multiple investors including Salesforce,...
UCLA CS Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Iris Cong, a fourth year undergraduate computer science major, and Jennifer Zou, a second-year computer science graduate student, have been named recipients of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship. Ruth Johnson, a fourth year...
CS Ph.D. Student Receives 2017 Google Fellowship
This year, Muhammad Gulzar, a third year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, has been announced as one of 33 scholars across North America, Europe, and the Middle East to become a Google Ph.D. fellow. The Google Ph.D. fellowship was created in 2009 in an...
UCLA UPE Receives Outstanding Chapter Award
Every year, Upsilon Pi Epsilon - an International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines - holds a national convention, during which chapters have the opportunity to be recognized by the national board. This year, out of the 200 chapters of UPE,...