Prof. Jason Cong & UCLA Miniscope Team Receive $8.3 Million Grant From NSF
Computer Science Professor Jason Cong, in collaboration with five other UCLA researchers, has recently been awarded an $8.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to further fund the team’s research on their open-source mini microscope project....
Augmented Reality: Making it secure, fast, efficient and resilient
Collaborative wireless networking AR project gets $2 million funding boost from NSF and Intel. Will use Named Data Networking as foundation A team of researchers from UCLA and New Mexico State University have received $2 million in funding from the...
Prof. Sriram Sankararaman Receives 2017 Okawa Foundation Research Grant
Professor Sriram Sankararaman has been named a 2017 Okawa Foundation Research Grant recipient for his research in "methods for inferring human population structure and its role in evolution and disease". The $10,000 grant is awarded annually to researchers who show...
2016-2017 CS Graduate Student Research and Commencement Award Recipients
Top row, left to right: Steven Holtzen, Arman Yousefi, Matthew Brown. Bottom row, left to right: Dakshita Khurana, Tianyi Zhang, Peng Wei. We are happy to announce the recipients of the 2016-2017 CS Graduate Student Research and Commencement Awards!Outstanding...
UCLA CS Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Iris Cong, a fourth year undergraduate computer science major, and Jennifer Zou, a second-year computer science graduate student, have been named recipients of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship. Ruth Johnson, a fourth year...
Professor Sriram Sankararaman: Recipient of 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship
Sriram Sankararaman, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Human Genetics, has been named one of four UCLA professors to receive the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship. The fellowships, which include a $60,000 grant for...
CS PhD Student: Saswat Padhi – 2017 Microsoft Research PhD Fellow
Every year, Microsoft’s research division awards two-year PhD fellowships to promising graduate students studying computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and related fields. To scope out these researchers, Microsoft undertakes an exhaustive process:...
Professor Judea Pearl: Receives The 2017 Sells Award For Distinguished Multivariate Research
Professor Judea Pearl has received the 2017 Sells Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research. This award from the Society of Multivariate Behavioral Research recognizes individuals who have made distinguished lifetime achievements to multivariate analysis in...
Professor Majid Sarrafzadeh: Keynote Speaker at UCLA Research Conference on Aging
Professor Majid Sarrafzadeh served as the keynote speaker (Independent Living with a Technology Companion) at UCLA’s Annual Research Conference on Aging held May 10th. The goal of these conferences is to demonstrate UCLA’s diverse research efforts aimed at enhancing...