Professor Miryung Kim Delivers Keynote Address at ISSTA 2022
Computer Science Department Professor Miryung Kim delivered a keynote address, "Software Developer Tools for Democratizing Heterogeneous Computing Applications," on July 20th at the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA). ISSTA is...
Overcoming Hearing Deficit, UCLA Computer Science Student Uses Her Own Experiences to Empower Others
Natalia Luzuriaga knows firsthand the power of technology to make people’s lives better having overcome her own experiences with partial hearing loss. “I was always taught to help others out,” said the fourth-year computer science student at the UCLA Samueli School of...
Todd Millstein Named Chair of UCLA Engineering Computer Science Department
Professor Todd Millstein has been selected to be the chair of the Computer Science Department at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, effective July 1. He succeeded Professor Eli Gafni, who had served in the position since 2020. Millstein joined UCLA in 2003 and...
UCLA Systems Group Won Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI
SOLAR Lab's OSDI paper titled "MemLiner: Lining up Tracing and Application for a Far-Memory-Friendly Runtime" was selected for a Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI 2022 Far-memory techniques that enable cloud applications to...
Ten UCLA CS Ph.D. students and Postdocs To Become Professors
At the end of the 2021-2022 school year, the UCLA Computer Science Department celebrates another year of research excellence and achievements by featuring ten Ph.D. graduates and Postdoctoral Researchers who are about to begin a new journey of their lives as...
Professor Sriram Sankararaman Leads Research Team to Develop New Algorithms to Study Genomic Data
UCLA computer scientists and genetics specialists in collaboration with their colleagues from several other institutions have developed a new genomic data computational method. Their improved algorithms can analyze genomic data up to 1,800 times faster than previous...
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky Appointed Norman E. Friedmann Chair in the Knowledge Sciences
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has appointed Rafail Ostrovsky, a distinguished professor of computer science and mathematics, as the new holder of the Norman E. Friedmann Chair in the Knowledge Sciences, effective July 1. Ostrovsky was selected for his...
Professor Nanyun Peng wins Paper Award at 2022 Annual NAACL Conference
Professor Nanyun (Violet) Peng won a paper award at the 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). This is the top natural language processing (NLP) conference. The conference will be held in Seattle,...
UCLA CS Students Receive 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Three UCLA Samueli undergraduate and graduate students have received the prestigious 2022 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The three-year fellowship program recognizes and supports outstanding students in science, technology,...