News Archive

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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).

Prof. Lingqi Yan Receives 2019 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

May 24, 2019

Professor Lingqi Yan of the Computer Science department has recently received the 2019 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from ACM SIGGRAPH.

Dr. Mariya Zheleva, UCSB CS Ph.D. Alumna, Awarded an NSF CAREER Award

May 21, 2019

Dr. Mariya Zheleva, UCSB Ph.D. Alumna and Assistant Professor at the University of Albany, was recently awarded an NSF CAREER award and the University at Albany Presidential Award for Exemplary Community Engagement.

Staff Spotlight: Greta Halle Wins 2018-19 Kevin McCauley Outstanding Staff Award

May 21, 2019


 

Greta Halle, our Business Officer, is one of the new recipients of the 2018-2019 Council of UC Staff Assemblies (CUCSA) Kevin McCauley Outstanding Staff Award!

 

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