Professor Sahai Wins STOC Test of Time Award

Professor Sahai's paper with his former Ph.D. student Brent Watershas been selected as one of the 10-year Test of Time Awards and will be presented at this year's STOC in Vancouver. The citation for...
UCLA Computer Scientist Breaks Through Writer’s Block with AI

UCLA Computer Scientist Breaks Through Writer’s Block with AI

Imagine asking a group of people in a room to each write a poem titled “A Computer Scientist’s Meeting.” The possibilities for different combinations of verses, words and imagery are endless, and the poem could even end up looking like this: A Computer Scientist’s...

Professor Jason Cong Delivered a Keynote Speech at MICRO’2022

Professor Jason Cong Delivered a Keynote Speech at MICRO’2022

Professor Jason Cong delivered a keynote speech "Democratizing Customized Computing” at MICRO’22 on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, in Chicago.  His talk covered the latest research on automated accelerator synthesis and customized computing on FPGAs. As FPGAs have been the...

UCLA wins Best Paper Runner-Up at MICRO 2022

UCLA wins Best Paper Runner-Up at MICRO 2022

A team from UCLA won the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at MICRO 2022 for their work: “OverGen: Improving FPGA Usability through Domain-specific Overlay Generation”. This project was a collaborative effort between Tony Nowatzki’s PolyArch lab and Jason Cong’s Vast lab....

Professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman Receives NSF CAREER Award

Professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman Receives NSF CAREER Award

Professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman 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. This award includes a five-year grant to support her research on Coresets for...

Professor Yizhou Sun Wins VLDB Test of Time Award

Professor Yizhou Sun Wins VLDB Test of Time Award

Professor Yizhou Sun's paper "PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks" has won this year’s VLDB Test of Time Award. Other authors include Jiawei Han, Xifeng Yan, Philip S. Yu, and Tianyi Wu. The paper is a significant...

Professor Wei Wang Joins NSF-Funded Data Chemistry Research Center

Professor Wei Wang Joins NSF-Funded Data Chemistry Research Center

Professor Wei Wang, the Leonard Kleinrock Term Chair in Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, will bring her expertise in data science and machine learning to a major chemistry research center funded by the National Science Foundation....

UCLA Part of New $10M NSF Data Science Research Center, EnCORE

UCLA Part of New $10M NSF Data Science Research Center, EnCORE

UCLA will be part of a multi-institutional research center funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Institute for Emerging CORE Methods in Data Science, or EnCORE, will be a collaboration among UC San Diego (lead organization), UCLA, University of...