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.

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). 

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".

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.