Ph.D. Student Zhe Zeng won the NEC Student Research Fellowship
Third-year Ph.D. student Zhe Zeng was awarded the NEC Student Research Fellowship grant. The NEC Student Research Fellowship Program provides grants for Ph.D. and postdoctoral research in information and communication technology. Each awardee is assigned a senior...
Professor Yizhou Sun awarded the 2020 Amazon Research Award
Professor Yizhou Sun has been awarded the 2020 Amazon Research Award for her research on Accelerating Graph Neural Network Training. The Amazon Research Awards helps fund outstanding, innovative research proposals across machine learning, robotics, operations...
Professor Hsieh and His Students Won the ICLR 2021 Outstanding Paper Award
Computer Science students Ruochen Wang, Minhao Cheng, Xiangning Chen, and faculty Cho-Jui Hsieh, in collaboration with Xiaocheng Tang at DiDi Research, have received the Outstanding Paper Award from the International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR 2021)...
Professor Miryung Kim Gives Distinguished Lectures at UIUC and University of Minnesota on Software Engineering for Data Analytics
Professor Kim has taken a leadership role in defining the emerging area of Software Engineering for Data Analytics (SE4DA) and was invited to give a Distinguished Lecture at both UIUC Computer Science and University Minnesota's Cray Distinguished Speaker Series....
Professor Kai-Wei Chang and Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh Receive Google Research Scholar Award
Professor Kai-Wei Chang and Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh have been awarded the 2021 Google Research Scholar Award. The Google Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google. The grant program provides...
Professor Cho-Jui Hsieh Receives NSF CAREER Award to Make Machine Learning Smarter and Safer
Cho-Jui Hsieh, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early stages of their teaching and research careers. The...
Professor Alexander Sherstov awarded UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor Alexander Sherstov was awarded UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award. The goal of the UCLA Academic Senate Teaching Award is to increase awareness of UCLA’s leadership in teaching and public service by honoring individuals who exemplify...
Professor Eran Halperin elected a 2021 ISCB Fellow
Professor Eran Halperin was elected as 2021 International Society for Computational Biology Fellows. The 2021 ISCB Fellows program was created to honor members who have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology...
Professor Cong and His Students Receive Best Paper Award from the 29th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
Computer Science Professor Jason Cong and his students Licheng Guo, Yuze Chi, Jie Wang, Jason Lau, and Weikang Qiao, in collaboration with Professor Zhiru Zhang and his student Ecenur Ustun at Cornell University, have received the Best Paper Award from the 29th...