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NSF invests in Cyberinfrastructure Institute to Harness Cosmic Data

October 24, 2019

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) partnering with UCSB and eight collaborating organizations $2.8 million to further develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (SCIMMA).

AI Trained to Combat Hate Speech

September 26, 2019

Professor Elizabeth Belding and Professor William Wang's research featured on two popular tech media outlets for their work on A Benchmark Dataset for Learning to Intervene in Online Hate Speech. 

Tackling the Qubit Mapping Problem for NISQ-Era Quantum Devices

September 23, 2019
This paper was published on the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, (ASPLOS 2019).
 

NSF Awards Grant for Developing Undergraduate Curriculum in Data Science

September 23, 2019

This grant will be instrumental in supporting a new data science undergraduate major and developing core courses for data literacy.

Fourth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC)

September 20, 2019

The Fourth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) accepted a paper by Professor Rich Wolski & Chandra Krintz.

Professor Xifeng Yan & William Wang - Making AI More Energy Efficient

September 19, 2019

Professor William Wang featured by IEE on Making AI More Energy Efficient. 

Prof. Wolski Gives Keynote at ARM U.S Research Meeting

September 16, 2019

The Arm Research Summit offers a unique forum where academics, researchers and industry experts come together to discuss their own projects, discover the latest developments across a wide range of different fields, and make new connections for future collaborative opportunities.

Collaborating to Protect the Citrus Industry

September 13, 2019
Professor Krintz and Professor Wolski collaborating on the project "Sensing and Lighting for Citrus Under Protective Screens."

Graduate Student Spotlight: Tegan Brennan

August 30, 2019
Tegan Brennan, a fifth-year PhD student in UC Santa Barbara’s Computer Science Department, recently discovered a new class of vulnerabilities that can lead to information leaks by noting the changes in program behavior that depend on secret information.

Professor William Wang receives 2019 IBM Faculty Award

August 21, 2019
Professor William Wang receives the 2019 IBM Faculty award for his research on Information Extraction and Natural Language Processing.

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