News Archive

Researchers from University of California and LANL awarded $3.6M to secure smart campuses

April 20, 2018

A consortium consisting of UC Riverside, UCLA, UCSD and UCSB along with Los Alamos National Laboratory, was awarded $3.6M for the three-year project "Securing smart campuses: a holistic multi-layer approach" through the 2018 UC Laboratory Fees Research Program. The vision for this project is to build security and privacy for “smart campuses”, that present a microcosm of smart cities and more generally of human cyber-physical systems.
 

Prof. Tevfik Bultan's new book: String Analysis for Software Verification and Security

April 19, 2018

A Conversation with Regent Scholars

April 15, 2018

As one of the country’s finest institutions of higher learning, UC Santa Barbara affords Regents Scholars many academic and pre-professional experiences, to ensure they reach their full intellectual and career potential.

On Saturday 04/14, Computer Science Faculty members Diba Mirza, Phill Conrad, Jianwen Su, John Gilbert, Yufei Ding, Giovanni Vigna, and Linda Petzold sat together with this year's Regent Scholars for a special lunch event and discussed courses and educational opportunities in Computer Science. 

A big thank you from the Computer Science Department

April 13, 2018

On April 12th, UCSB held the second Give Day event. In this year's event, the Computer Science Department has received a total donation of $376,595, which ranked at the top in the College of Engineering. Private gifts are a very important part of the university ecosystem. With this generous support from you, we are able to keep attracting the very brightest new faculty members, curious undergraduate and graduate students by offering state-of-the-art facilities and outstanding research opportunities.

McMahan, Christensen, Nichols, Roesch, Guo, Hardekopf and Sherwood won the 2018 IEEE Micro "Top Pick" Award

April 11, 2018

UCSB NLP Lab co-organizes the first SoCal Natural Language Processing Symposium

April 9, 2018

Since 2016, computer science departments and universities in the Southern California region have heavily invested in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research, and several junior faculty members related to this area were hired across campuses. This includes Prof. William Wang (UCSB), Prof. Sameer Singh (UCI), Prof. Kai-Wei Chang (UCLA), Prof. Xiang Ren (USC), Prof. Vagelis Papalexakis (UCR), and Prof. Ndapa Nakashole (UCSD). 

Professor Emeritus Teofilo Gonzalez appointed as a member of the ABET Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC)

April 7, 2018

Professor Emeritus Teofilo Gonzalez has been appointed as a member of the ABET Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) for the term starting July 2018 and ending July 2023. CAC overviews the ABET accreditation of about 100 computing programs (computer science, information systems and information technology) per year all over the world with the goal of improving undergraduate education. Professor Gonzalez has been an active participant as a Program Evaluator, Team Chair or Commissioner of the CAC accreditation process since 2004.

Prof. Tim Sherwood gave a Distinguished Seminar at George Mason University

April 3, 2018

Prof. Tim Sherwood was recently named a Distinguished Lecturer at George Mason University's ECE Department, where he delivered a distinguished seminar on "Computer Architectures as an Instrument for Understanding the Nature of Practical Computation".

Ph.D. students Victor Zakhary, Cetin Sahin and Profs. Amr El Abbadi, Rachel Lin, and Stefano Tessaro won the EDBT 2018 Best Demonstration Award

March 29, 2018

A team of UCSB Computer Science researchers just won the EDBT 2018 Best Demonstration Award at Vienna, Austria. The EDBT (Extending Data Base Technology)  (http://edbticdt2018.at/) conference is a well-known conference in the area of databases and information systems. 

Prof. William Wang receives an Adobe Research Award for language and vision research

March 20, 2018

UCSB Computer Science Assistant Professor William Wang receives an Adobe Faculty Research Award for his research on language and vision. Every year, Adobe funds a university faculty research program to promote the understanding and use of data science in the area of marketing. The goal is to encourage both theoretical and empirical development of solutions to problems in marketing.

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