News Archive

Prof. Yu-Xiang Wang receives Paper Award from AISTATS 2019

April 16, 2019

UCSB Computer Science Professor Yu-Xiang Wang and his co-authors, Borja Balle and Shiva Kasiviswanathan, were awarded a Paper Award from AISTATS 2019. Their paper, “Subsampled Renyi Differential Privacy and Analytical Moments Accountant,” studied the problem of subsampling in differential privacy.

Prof. Arpit Gupta receives Honorable Mention at ACM SIGCOMM

April 15, 2019

UCSB Assistant Professor, Arpit Gupta, received an Honorable Mention at the ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Awards

 

ArchLab Paper Receives Best Paper Award at the 24th ACM International Conference on ASPLOS

April 15, 2019

UCSB’s ArchLab, under the direction of Dr. Timothy Sherwood of UCSB’s Computer Science Department, recently received the Best Paper Award at the 24th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS).

CS Summit 2019: Computing Together to Share Ideas & Make Connections

April 3, 2019

Hosted by UCSB’s Department of Computer Science, the 2019 CS Summit event was held on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at Corwin Pavilion and the Lagoon Plaza.

CS UTA Program collaboration with Brown University

March 27, 2019

Prof. Diba Mirza piloted UCSB's Computer Science Undergraduate Tutor program in 2017 which has now doubled in size since its debut. She took to the opportunity to visit Brown University to discuss best practices with Prof. Andy van Dam who had started the UTA program at Brown CS in the 1960s and is still part of it. 

Alumni Spotlight: Xia Zhou received SIGMOBILE RockStar Award

March 24, 2019

The RockStar Award is SIGMOBILE's early career award. The Award recognizes an individual who has made recent outstanding research or product contributions to the field of mobile computing during the early part of his or her career.

U.S. News reports on What to Know About U.S. CS Degrees

March 19, 2019

UCSB Computer Science Ph.D student, Sujaya Maiyya was recently quoted in a U.S. News and World Report article about U.S. Computer Science degrees. Professor and Department Chair, Matthew Turk, is also featured in this article.  

Google Faculty Research Awards 2018

March 15, 2019

Google received 910 proposals covering 40 countries and over 320 universities. After expert reviews and committee discussions, they decided to fund 158 projects. Of those projects, Computer Science professors William Wang and Tao Yang received this prestigious award!  

Sloan Fellowship awarded to CS Alumni Christo Wilson

February 21, 2019

Computer Science Alumni, Christo Wilson, currently an assistant professor at Northeastern University, has been awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship this year. 

In Memory of JoAnne Holliday

February 20, 2019

With a heavy heart, the Computer Science department announces the passing of one of our alumni, JoAnne Holliday. 

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