News Archive

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. 

Prof William Wang interviewed by Scientific American

February 1, 2019

Professor William Wang was interviewed by Scientific American about an algorithm that can spot when people lie to the police! 

 

"Kernelization" by Prof. Daniel Lokshtanov has been published!

January 29, 2019

A new textbook titled "Kernelization, Theory of Parameterized Preprocessing" co-authored by our very own Daniel Lokshtanov, together with Fedor V. Fomin, Saket Saurabh and Meirav Zehavi has now been published by Cambridge University Press. 

Prof. Tevfik Bultan presents ISR Distinguished Talk at UC Irvine

January 18, 2019

Professor Tevfik Bultan will give a distinguished talk at UC Irvine on January 18th as part of the Institute for Software Research Distinguished Speaker Series.

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