Professor Judea Pearl: Solving Big Data’s ‘Fusion’ Problem
An article published in July’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences features the research of Distinguished Professor Judea Pearl and his former graduate student, Elias Bareinboim (now an assistant professor of computer science at Purdue). Barenboim and...
Former CS Grad Student – Divya Gupta: Dimitris N. Chorafas Award
Former CSD graduate student, Divya Gupta (Ph.D. 2016; advisor Amit Sahai), has received the 2016 Dimitris N. Chorafas Award for innovative research based on her thesis work. That work addressed the problem of hosting services on untrusted clouds by leveraging recent...
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: Honorary Doctorate of Science Award – New Jersey Institute Of Technology
Professor Leonard Kleinrock is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (May 2016). His award reads: “In recognition of his pioneering contributions to our understanding of the mathematical theory of packet...
Professor Adnan Darwiche: Artificial Intelligence “Product Configurator”
An innovation in AI first described in a 2001 paper by Adnan Darwiche is helping Toyota and Lexus offer car buyers the opportunity to customize their vehicles online. Using websites, car shoppers can tailor their vehicle from among a range of models, colors and...
Professor Majid Sarrafzadeh: Keynote Speaker at UCLA Research Conference on Aging
Professor Majid Sarrafzadeh served as the keynote speaker (Independent Living with a Technology Companion) at UCLA’s Annual Research Conference on Aging held May 10th. The goal of these conferences is to demonstrate UCLA’s diverse research efforts aimed at enhancing...
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: Test of Time Award
A paper authored by Leonard Kleinrock and Fouad Tobagi—Packet switching in radio channels: Part I—Carrier sense multiple-access modes and their throughput-delay characteristics (1975 IEEE Transactions on Communications 23.12—has been awarded the inaugural SIGMOBILE...
Best Student Paper Award at KR 2016
Open-World Probabilistic Databases, authored by Ismail Ilkan Ceylon (a visiting student at UCLA in fall 2015) and coauthored by professors Adnan Darwiche and Guy Van den Broeck has received the 2016 Marco Cadoli Student Paper Prize for best paper at the 15th...
Center for SMART Health
The UCLA Center for Systematic, Measurable, Actionable, Resilient and Technology-driven Health (aka Center for SMART Health) has been formed to foster collaboration among engineers, computer scientists, clinicians, biomedical researchers, and information...
Computer Science Undergraduate Named Goldwater Scholar
Iris Cong, a junior-year computer science student in HSSEAS, was recently named a 2016 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation (Goldwater was a former five-term U. S. Senator from Arizona). This award is presented to...