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Prof. Xifeng Yan named program co-chair of the 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM19)

September 18, 2018

Prof.  Xifeng Yan is serving as program co-chair of the 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM19), which will be held in Calgary, Canada between May 2 and 4, 2019.  The conference is sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Data Mining and Analytics and held in cooperation with the American Statistical Association.

Prof. Elizabeth Belding awarded $2 Million NSF grant to develop Internet access solutions for improved connectivity to rural Native American Indian Nations

September 18, 2018

CS Professor Elizabeth Belding is the Principal Investigator of a recent $2 Million, three year NSF grant titled "PuebloConnect: Expanding Internet Access and Content Relevance in Tribal Communities".  The project is a collaboration with Marisa Duarte (Arizona State), Morgan Vigil-Hayes (Northern Arizona University), Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech) and Jennifer Nevarez (Community Learning Network).  Prof. Vigil-Hayes is a 2017 Ph.D. graduate of UCSB, who worked in Prof. Belding’s research group.

Staff Edition: UCPath Go-Live!

September 10, 2018

UCPath go-live activities are underway at UCSB.

Academic Employee Edition: UCPath Go-Live!

September 10, 2018

 UCPath Comes to UCSB September 27th, 2018. Go-live activities are underway!

The Current: Rising Research Stars

August 31, 2018

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Two of UC Santa Barbara’s junior engineering faculty members have received the prestigious Young Faculty Award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). William Wang, in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, and Jonathan Klamkin, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, join 34 other up-and-coming researchers for 2018.

Prof. William Wang receives 2018 IBM Faculty Award

August 27, 2018

Prof. William Wang receives 2018 IBM Faculty Award. This builds on their existing collaboration with IBM for a prior award in 2017. In a prior collaboration, they have pushed the boundaries of reinforcement learning optimization and knowledge graph reasoning. The results were published at IJCAI 2018 and EMNLP 2018.

Prof. William Wang received prestigious 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award

August 23, 2018

Professor William Wang has received a prestigious 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award! William was presented the award in Washington, D.C. In the past two years, William has successfully grown the Natural Language Processing Lab into one of the most prolific NLP groups in the world. CSRankings.org ranks UCSB #3 in NLP in 2018.

Prof. Chandra Krintz Keynote Speaker at IoT 2018

August 1, 2018

Keynote by Professor Chandra Krintz, UCSB on `SmartFarm: IoT Systems That Simplify and Automate Agriculture Analytics’

Computer Science ranked as the top college major

July 19, 2018

The Princeton Review lists Computer Science as the #1 college major in their recent list of Top Ten College Majors. The list is based on research covering job prospects, alumni salaries, and popularity. Here's what they say about CS:

James Schaffer, John O'Donovan, & Tobias Höllerer receive Best Paper Award at ACM UMAP 2018

July 15, 2018

ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and 
practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to 
groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information.

The title of their paper is "Easy to Please: Separating User Experience from Choice Satisfaction."

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