“Time Zone King”: How One UCLA Computer Scientist Keeps Digital Clocks Ticking
Paul Eggert may not be the most famous person from Russell, Kansas. That distinction, he says, goes to former U.S. senators Bob Dole or Arlen Specter. But this Midwestern native sure has his finger on the pulse of the most valuable commodity in the world: time. If...
UCLA Researchers Recognized at International Symposium on FPGA 2022
Several UCLA Computer Science researchers were recognized at the ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays 2022. Two papers were inducted into the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame: "An Efficient and Versatile Scheduling...
Professor Sriram Sankararaman Invited to NAE’s 2022 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Professor Sriram Sankararaman has been invited to the National Academy of Engineering's 2022 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. "NAE convenes an annual US Frontiers of Engineering symposium that brings together 100 highly accomplished early-career...
Professor Guy Van den Broeck receives Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researcher Awards
Professor Guy Van den Broeck was among 17 researchers to receive Intel's 2021 Outstanding Researcher Awards (ORAs). The annual award program recognizes the exceptional contributions made through Intel university-sponsored research. Professor Van den Broeck was...
Professor Quanquan Gu receives the 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship
Professor Quanquan Gu is among 118 scientists and scholars selected today to receive the 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships. The fellowships, among the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career researchers, are often seen as evidence of the...
Ph. D. Student Arjun Reddy Akula and Professor Song-Chun Zhu Use Theory of Mind to Improve Human Trust in Artificial Intelligence
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) models aim to make the underlying inference mechanism of AI systems transparent and interpretable to human users. Humans can easily be overwhelmed with too many or too-detailed explanations; an interactive communication...
Professor Judea Pearl Receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the 2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the information and communication technologies category “for laying the foundations of modern...
UCLA Ph.D. Jonathan Katz elected to ACM Fellow “For contributions to cryptographic protocol design and cryptography education”
UCLA Ph.D. Jonathan Katz was elected as an ACM Fellow "For contributions to cryptographic protocol design and cryptography education." ACM Fellowship is ACM's most prestigious member grade. These fellowships recognize the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding...
Professor Rafail Ostrovsky wins 2022 IEEE Computer Society Award
Rafail Ostrovsky, a distinguished professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the 2022 W. Wallace McDowell Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society for outstanding recent...