ACM at UCLA receives Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Chapter Website from ACM
ACM at UCLA is one of 700 chapters of ACM in the world. Every year ACM honors 5 chapters for 5 different awards, one being the Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Chapter Website given to the chapter of ACM with an exceptionally outstanding website. ACM...
UCLA CS and Amazon Announce Inaugural Recipients of Research Gifts and Amazon Fellowships
The UCLA Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, a collaboration with Amazon, announced today its first cohort of 12 Amazon fellowships and six gift-funded research projects.Funded by Amazon and housed at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, the UCLA...
2022 Computer Science Graduate Student Awards
Eight graduate students from the UCLA Computer Science department were awarded the 2022 Graduate Student Awards. Congratulations to all awardees! Outstanding Graduating PhD Student: Aayush Jain Outstanding Graduating Masters Student: Ruochen Wang Outstanding Graduate...
Professor George Varghese Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
George Varghese, who holds the Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, was elected Thursday to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Varghese joined 10 other UCLA...
UCLA hosts AI program with Break Through Tech | Professor Reinman to serve as faculty director of LA hub
UCLA will be the first public university to host a Break Through Tech AI hub — part of a national program designed to teach artificial intelligence to a greater diversity of students — bringing AI education to college students from underserved groups across Southern...
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky Wins the Best Paper Award at EUROCRYPT 2022 Conference
CRYPTO and EUROCRYPT are the two flagship Cryptography conferences in the world. Professor Ostrovsky, jointly with two colleagues from Georgia Tech--David Heath and Vlad Kolesnikov--has been awarded the best paper award for Eurocrypt 2022. Their paper, titled...
Professor Leonard Kleinrock Elected 2022 Computer History Museum Fellow
Professor Leonard Kleinrock was elected as a 2022 Fellow of the Computer History Museum (CHM). The CHM Fellows program is intended to “recognize annually a select number of individuals of outstanding merit who have significantly contributed to the field of computing....
Professor Miryung Kim wins the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
Miryung Kim is this year's recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award. This award is the highest educational achievement award given by ACM's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering. It is presented annually to an individual who has made...
Professor Paul Eggert Awarded FSF Free Software Awards
Professor Paul Eggert was awarded the 2021 Advancement of Free Software Award from LibrePlanet's Free Software Foundation Free Software Awards. The awards are presented annually by the Free Software Foundation. They recognize "an individual who has made a great...