Professor Lixia Zhang wins the 2020 SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Lixia Zhang, jointly with Amin Vahdat of Google, won the 2020 SIGCOMM Lifetime Award for Networking, the top ACM networking award. Past winners include Internet pioneers such as Baran, Cerf, and Kahn. Zhang's fingerprints are all over...
Professor Majid Sarrafzadeh and Ph.D. students Shayan Fazeli and Babak Moatamed create statistical modeling tool to collect COVID-19 data
A UCLA professor and students created an artificial intelligence-based tool to collect and correlate data related to the COVID-19 pandemic easily. Majid Sarrafzadeh, a computer science professor who specializes in health analytics, created the tool Olivia to reduce...
Professor Wei Wang receives grant to develop model to predict COVID-19 spread
Wei Wang, the Leonard Kleinrock Professor of Computer Science in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a one-year, $90,000 rapid-response research grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a prediction model for the spread of COVID-19. With...
ACM at UCLA awarded the “Outstanding School Service” student chapter award by the international ACM
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded the UCLA student chapter, ACM at UCLA, with the Outstanding School Service award for the 2019-2020 academic year. The recognition is given to student chapters whose events "have made significant contributions to...
Professor Todd Millstein and Ph.D. Student Saswat Padhi Wins SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI’20
Ph.D. student Saswat Padhi, Professor Todd Millstein, and their Princeton collaborators recently won a SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI'20 for their paper "Data-Driven Inference of Representation Invariants". PLDI is the top conference on the design and...
UCLA selected as one of the four world-class universities by Xilinx to establish Adaptive Computer Research Clusters
Xilinx Teams and leading universities around the world established Adaptive Compute Research Clusters to spearhead novel research into all areas of adaptive compute acceleration. The cluster at UCLA will focus on energy-efficient computing, customized computing for...
UCLA Statistical Machine Learning Lab Has Built a Predictive Model for COVID-19 Forecasts
Professor Quanquan Gu’s statistical machine learning lab has recently launched a project using machine learning to combat COVID-19 (https://covid19.uclaml.org). The lab has built a predictive model for COVID-19 confirmed cases as well as a death and peak date forecast...
Professor Eleazar Eskin Leads Survey Effort Against COVID-19
Professor Eleazar Eskin is leading a survey effort in California, and beyond, to better understand the scope of people's interactions during the COVID-19 crisis. The survey asks if the participant has experienced any symptoms, if yes, what those symptoms are,...
Professor Sriram Sankararaman Receives NSF CAREER Award
Sriram Sankararaman, an assistant professor of computer science in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members at the start of their research and teaching careers. The...