Prof. Yizhou Sun given 2018 Amazon Research Award
Associate CS Professor Yizhou Sun has been awarded the 2018 Amazon Research Award for her research on knowledge quality enhancement via path-guided logic-based uncertain knowledge graph embedding. The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) program funds academic research and...
Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to give keynote lecture at USC
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has invited Distinguished CS Professor Leonard Kleinrock to give a keynote lecture on Wednesday, April 3rd. His talk, entitled " On Some of My Simple Results", touches on...
Prof. Judea Pearl’s article on the future of machine learning featured on cover of CACM
Judea Pearl, UCLA Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science, has authored a think piece on the future of machine learning in Communications of the ACM. In the article, titled, “The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning,” Pearl argued...
Prof. Jason Cong and Group wins Best Paper Award at FPGA’19
Computer Science Professor Jason Cong and coauthors Yi-Hsiang Lai, Yuze Chi, Yuwei Hu, Jie Wang, Cody Hao Yu, Yuan Zhou, and Prof. Zhiru Zhang has received the Best Paper Award at the 27th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) held...
Prof. Eleazar Eskin named 2019 ISCB Fellow
The Computer Science department would like to congratulate professor Elezar Eskin on the prestigious honor of being named one of four 2019 ISCB Fellows. The ISCB Fellows program was created to honor members who have distinguished themselves through outstanding...
Prof. Rafail Ostrovsky invited to give distinguished guest lecture at CMU
CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s security and privacy research institute, invited computer science and mathematics professor Rafail Ostrovsky to give a Distinguished Seminar on his work on cryptographic techniques, as part of their CyLab Distinguished Seminar...
Prof. Leonard Kleinrock Discusses 50th Anniversary of Internet on KTLA Morning News
Professor Leonard Kleinrock, Internet pioneer and distinguished CS professor, appeared on KTLA Morning News on January 29 to discuss the birth of the Internet at UCLA and its 50 year anniversary. Kleinrock also discussed the original purpose of the Internet and gave...
3 CS Professors Honored by Association for Computing Machinery
Three computer science professors in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering — Adnan Darwiche, Mario Gerla and Amit Sahai — have been elected as fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. The...
UCLA Takes Second in ICPC Southern California Regional
A team of three UCLA computer science students placed second at the 2018 Southern California Regional of the International Collegiate Programming Contest. The contest was held at Riverside Community College on November 10. Each competing team of three students,...