Professor Majid Sarrafzadeh named to National Academy of Inventors
Professor Majid Sarrafzadeh has been chosen as 2021 fellows by the National Academy of Inventors. Election to an academy fellowship is the highest professional distinction for inventors and innovators from academic institutions. The academy recognizes researchers who...
Professors George Varghese and Lixia Zhang were inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
On Dec. 14, UCLA computer science professors George Varghese and Lixia Zhang were inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame's 2021 Class. The honor "recognizes individuals worldwide who have played an extraordinary role in the conceptualization, building, and...
Professor Aditya Grover received the Outstanding Paper Award at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)
Professor Aditya Grover and co-authors Noam Rozen, Maximilian Nickel, and Yaron Lipman from Weizmann Institute of Science and Meta AI, have received the Outstanding Paper Award at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS 202 for their...
UCLA Engineering Professor Jason Cong Receives 2022 IEEE Noyce Medal
Jason (Jingsheng) Cong, UCLA’s Volgenau Professor for Engineering Excellence and a distinguished professor of computer science and of electrical and computer engineering, has received the 2022 Robert N. Noyce Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics...
UCLA and Amazon join forces to create Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence
Amazon and UCLA have collaborated to establish the Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, marking the technology company’s first such alliance with a public university. Based at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, the research hub will aim to...
UCLA CS Joins Leap Alliance to Promote Diversity
The UCLA Computer Science Department has joined the Diversifying LEAdership in the Professoriate (LEAP) Alliance, whose goal is to increase the diversity of faculty in computing at research universities. Led by the (Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities...
UCLA Samueli Welcomes Bolei Zhou as Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Bolei Zhou will join the Computer Science Department at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering in early January as an assistant professor, bringing with him his expertise in computer vision and machine autonomy. Zhou plans to explore human-centric artificial...
Student Aishwarya Sivaraman Received the 2021 Google Ph.D. Fellowship.
Ph.D. student Aishwarya Sivaraman received a 2021 Google Ph.D. Fellowship. The Google Ph.D. Fellowship program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields....
Computer Science faculty Cho-Jui Hsieh and students Zhouxing Shi and Yihan Wang won VNN-Comp’21
Neural network verification aims to provide provable safety and robustness guarantees for models used in safety-critical applications such as aircraft control and self-driving cars. While earlier approaches before 2017 only scaled to networks with hundreds of neurons,...