The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has appointed Majid Sarrafzadeh, a distinguished professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, as the Levi James Knight, Jr. Term Chair for Innovation, effective retroactively July 1. Sarrafzadeh was...

Two former UCLA VAST Lab researchers have been elected as IEEE Fellows. Professor Sung Kyu Lim of the Georgia Institute of Technology has been elected for contributions to electronic design automation and the tradeoff for 3-dimensional integrated circuits. Professor...

Achuta Kadambi, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the Outstanding Young Professional Award from the honor society Eta Kappa Nu of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics...

Thirty-sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems New Orleans, LA Main Conference Papers Controllable Text Generation with Neurally-Decomposed Oracle Tao Meng, Sidi Lu, Nanyun Peng, and Kai-Wei Chang, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information...

Two UCLA graduate students, Arjun Subramonian and Matthew Wang, are chairs for NeurIPS 2022, a prestigious machine learning conference in late November. Arjun is the Affinity Workshop co-chair for NeurIPS 2022. In their words, "At NeurIPS, affinity groups promote and...

Professor Aditya Grover was honored with the AI Researcher of The Year award at the Samsung AI Forum in South Korea. Started in 2020, this award is given to the most promising researchers worldwide in artificial intelligence under the age of 35. The Award Committee...

Douglass Stott Parker Jr., a professor emeritus of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering who joined the faculty in 1979, died Oct. 4, in Eugene, Oregon. He was 69. Parker taught undergraduate classes on mathematical modeling and methods as well as...

Professor Jason Cong delivered a keynote speech "Democratizing IC Designs and Customized Computing” at the 2022 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, in San Diego, CA.  His talk covered his group’s decade-long effort to...

A team from UCLA was selected for ACM SIGSOFT Research Highlights for their work: “QDiff: Differential Testing of Quantum Software Stacks.” This project was a collaborative effort between Professor Miryung Kim’s group and Professor Harry Xu, and it was done when Qian...