CS Ph.D. Pan Lu Awarded Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship
Pan Lu, a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at UCLA, has been awarded the prestigious Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024. This fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding doctoral students in their research and...
UCLA ACM Student Chapter Wins the 2023-2024 ACM Outstanding Chapter Website Award
The International Association of Computing and Machinery (ACM) has awarded the UCLA student chapter of ACM the 2023-2024 Outstanding Chapter Website Student Chapter Excellence Award. The ACM at UCLA has received a Chapter Excellence award seven times in the past eight...
Professor Jason Cong Delivered a Keynote Speech at FCCM 2024
The UCLA Computer Science Department extends warm congratulations to Professor Cong on giving the opening keynote speech entitled “Can Deep Learning Broaden the Participation of FPGA Designs?” at the 2024 IEEE 32nd Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable...
Internet Pioneer Leonard Kleinrock Elected to National Academy of Science
Distinguished professor emeritus Leonard Kleinrock of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The academy announced its 2024 class of 120 new members and 24 international members at its annual...
Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng Receives NSF CAREER Award
Congratulations to Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng on receiving the NSF CAREER Award. Language models (LMs) are fundamental to most natural language processing (NLP) applications today. However, prevalent auto-regressive models, which predict the next word based on...
5 UCLA faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Five UCLA faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Ann Carlson, Jason Cong, Tyrone Howard, Thomas Smith and Paul Taylor are among 250 artists, scholars, scientists and...
PhD Student Yihao Xue Awarded OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grant
UCLA Computer Science Department is proud to announce that Yihao Xue, a third-year PhD student, has been awarded the prestigious OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grant. This grant recognizes Yihao's cutting-edge research in the robustness of representation learning, with a...
Professor Mirzasoleiman Received UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award
A warm congratulations to assistant professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman in receiving the UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award. Each year, a select number of fellows are chosen from faculty in various disciplines across the campus. This years, there are 22. The UCLA...
UCLA Samueli Announces 2024 Edward K. Rice Outstanding Student Awards
Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields. Below are profiles of the four recipients of the 2024 Edward K. Rice...