News Archive

In Memory of Professor Alan Konheim

July 5, 2019

With a heavy heart, the Computer Science Department announces the passing of one of our Professor Emeriti, Alan Konheim.

Dr. Xia Zhou, UCSB CS Ph.D. Alumna, Recipient of Two Significant Awards

July 5, 2019

Dr. Xia Zhou, UCSB Ph.D. Alumna and Associate Professor at Dartmouth College, was recently the recipient of two significant awards: the ACM SIGMOBILE's RockStar award and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

 

Computer Science End-of-Year Award Ceremony

July 2, 2019

The Department of Computer Science End-of-Year Awards Ceremony 2018-19 was held on Friday, June 14. 

CS Undergraduate Research Poster Session 2018-19

July 1, 2019

The UCSB Department of Computer Science was proud to host an Undergraduate Research  Poster Session on June 13, 2019.

Dr. Phill Conrad Receives an Award from NSF

June 24, 2019

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently funded a project titled, “Collaborative Research: Exploring Brownfield Programming Assignments in Undergraduate Computing Education,” which is being conducted by Dr. Phill Conrad in collaboration with colleagues from Washington State University and Humboldt State University.

Andries van Dam Receives SIGGRAPH’s 2019 Distinguished Educator Award

June 7, 2019

Andries van Dam, UCSB CS Advisory Board member and Professor at Brown University, has recently been awarded the 2019 Distinguished Educator Award by SIGGRAPH.

Undergraduate Student, Prince Wang, Awarded Chancellor’s Award at Commencement

June 7, 2019

Second-year undergraduate student, Zizhuang Wang, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Award at the College of Creative Studies Commencement ceremony this past weekend.

Ph.D. Student William Eiers Receives College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

June 1, 2019

UCSB Computer Science Ph.D. student, William Eiers, recently received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant (TA) Award from the College of Engineering. Eiers is currently the Lead TA of the Computer Science department and was chosen for this role by Professor Elizabeth Belding.

Ph.D. Student, Chad Spensky, Presents First Place Pitch for the 2019 TMP New Venture Competition

June 1, 2019

Chad Spensky, Grad Slam alum and UCSB Computer Science Department Ph.D. Student, presented the first place pitch on behalf of his team Allthenticate at the 2019 TMP New Venture Competition (NVC).

UCSB Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group to Collaborate with Google on Language and Vision Research

June 1, 2019

The UCSB Natural Language Processing (NLP) group, directed by Computer Science Professors William Wang, are the new recipients of a Google Gift award to be used towards “Vision-Language Navigation with Self-Supervised Learning.”

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