2014-2015 CS Department Graduate Student Research and Commencement Awards
Outstanding Graduating Ph.D. Student: Nabil Alshurafa (advisor Majid Sarrafzadeh) Outstanding Graduating Master’s Student: Zhinan Xu (advisor Demetri Terzopoulos) Cisco Outstanding Graduate Research Award: Muhuan Huang (advisor Jason Con). Google Outstanding Graduate...
Prof. Sriram Sankararaman’s Work Featured in Science Magazine
The July 2015 issue of Science features an article titled “Journeying back in time with ancient DNA” which discusses different types of DNA research being carried out by today’s scientists. One of the featured researchers is Prof. Sriram Sankararaman, who joined the...
Professor Eliezer Gafni: Israel-USA Binational Science Foundation Grant
The Computer Science Department’s Prof. Eli Gafni and Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Yehuda Afek are the joint recipients of an Israel-USA Binational Science Foundation (BSF) grant titled A computer is a Turing-Machine (TM) and it computes functions. What is a...
Professor Guy Van den Broeck wins Micosoft Best Paper Award
Guy Van den Broeck (UCLA Computer Science Department) and coauthors Vaishak Belle (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Andrea Passerini (Unversity of Trento, Italy) have received a Microsoft Best Paper Award for their paper submitted to the Association for Uncertainty in...
UCLA Programming Team Places 6th at 2015 ACM’s ICPC
UCLA computer science students Hao Chen, Xin Gao, and Chaoshuai Lu participated in the 39th Annual World Finals for the ACM’s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).