Professor Tao Yang and William Wang selected for Google Faculty Research Awards.

The Google Faculty Research Award is to identify and strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology. It is highly competitive - this round Google AI received 910 proposals covering 40 countries and over 320 universities. After expert reviews and committee discussions, Google AI decided to fund 158 projects. Our CS Department has two recipients of Google Faculty Research Awards this year: Prof. Tao Yang and Prof. William Wang.  Congratulations to them!

For more information about the Google Faculty Research Award, go here. 

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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.

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.

Subhash Suri recognized as IIT Distinguished Alumnus

October 28, 2019

Professor Subhash received the Indian Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2019 in the category of Academic Excellence!

NSF invests in Cyberinfrastructure Institute to Harness Cosmic Data

October 24, 2019

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) partnering with UCSB and eight collaborating organizations $2.8 million to further develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (SCIMMA).

AI Trained to Combat Hate Speech

September 26, 2019

Professor Elizabeth Belding and Professor William Wang's research featured on two popular tech media outlets for their work on A Benchmark Dataset for Learning to Intervene in Online Hate Speech. 

Tackling the Qubit Mapping Problem for NISQ-Era Quantum Devices

September 23, 2019
This paper was published on the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, (ASPLOS 2019).
 
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