UCLA Samueli Launches New Computer Science Summer Institute for High School Students
This summer, UCLA computer science professor Yizhou Sun will introduce UCLA’s first-ever Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) aimed at engaging high school students who have a passion for computer science. The new program will offer two tracks — an introductory...
Graduate Student Linghao Song Receives the EDAA Outstanding Dissertations Award 2020
Linghao was selected as one of the four winners of EDAA Outstanding Dissertations Award 2020. In his dissertation, he focused on the architecture for deep learning and graph processing. Linghao is a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Jason Cong....
Graduate Student Atefeh Sohrabizadeh Wins the Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship
Atefeh Sohrabizadeh is one of 15 winners of the Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship. Atefeh joined the Ph.D. program in UCLA Computer Science Program in Fall 2018. Her research interests lie in parallel architecture and programming. Not only was she the lead...
Professors Kai-Wei Chang and Ravi Netravali Awarded the 2021 Sloan Fellowship
Professors Kai-Wei Chang and Ravi Netravali have been awarded the 2021 Sloan Fellowship. Professor Chang’s work on “quantifying and mitigating societal bias in natural language processing (NLP) and developing efficient algorithms for structured output prediction...
Professor Judea Pearl and UCLA join Toyota Research Institute’s AI program
Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been selected to join the Toyota Research Institute’s program on artificial intelligence. With more than $750,000 in funding over the next two years, his research...
Professor Glenn Reinman wins MICRO Test of Time Award
Professor Glenn Reinman won the Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture MICRO Test of Time Award for his seminal paper "Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching." The Test of Time Award is the highest honor an academic paper receives for its...
Professor Wei Wang elected as Association for Computing Machinery fellow
Wei Wang, Leonard Kleinrock Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been elected as a 2020 fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest scientific and educational society for computing professionals. The...
Four UCLA faculty named to National Academy of Inventors
Four professors from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been chosen as 2020 fellows by the National Academy of Inventors. Election to an academy fellowship is the highest professional distinction exclusive for inventors and innovators from academic...
Time Magazine Names UCLA-Developed Hospital Scanner One of 2020 Top Inventions
An advanced wireless scanner developed at UCLA that can help detect bedsores in advance has been named one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2020. The magazine’s annual list highlights game-changing innovations in several categories, including design,...