Diba Mirza from the Department of Computer Science has been named as a co-recipient of the Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award. 

Two National Science Foundation grants awarded to Prof. Belding provide support for her research. 

ACM is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society

Having wrapped up his duties as principal architect of this year's summit.cs, Prof. Giovanni Vigna offers his take on the well-attended event. 

On Friday June 12, the Department of Computer Science held its first End-of-Year Award Ceremony, honoring our outstanding undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, alumni, and faculty members. 

Stephanie's office is located at 5102 Harold Frank Hall.

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.

Congratulations to Professor William Wang for receiving 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.

This year, the CS Summit at UCSB's Department of Computer Science was held on Friday 03/16 at the Corwin Pavilion. 

This year event includes breakfast with industry and networking, undergraduate capstone presentations, lunch with poster session and networking, graduate student distinguished lectures, a distinguished lecture, and a fireside chat with Dr. David Culler. 

The Computer Science Department is delighted to announce that Prof. Yu-Xiang Wang, an expert in machine learning, will be joining the faculty in Fall 2018. Here's our first interview with Yu-Xiang.

UCSB Department of Computer Science Professor Christopher Kruegel will give an ISSTA keynote talk, and Professor Tevfik Bultan is this year's ISSTA General Chair.

With Goleta Beach as the backdrop for our 2017 Spring BBQ celebration, four graduate students and three teaching assistants were honored with awards for their outstanding academic performance. We applaud their achievements! 
[Photo Credit: William Wang]

Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) partners with the brightest entrepreneurs to turn disruptive ideas into world-changing businesses. KPCB has helped build and accelerate growth at pioneering companies like Amazon, Google, Lending Club, Nest, Twitter, Uber, and Mandiant.

Memory systems are often the largest dollar cost as well as the largest consumer of energy in the datacenter. Moreover, many of the problems we see in the memory system are cross-disciplinary in nature and their solution would likely require work at all levels, from applications to circuits.  In their recent award winning paper in MEMSYS, recent UCSB Computer Science graduates Heba Saadeldeen and Zhaoxia (Summer) Deng, along with Professor Tim Sherwood and Univ.

Prof. Jiawei Han is widely known as the pioneer in the field of Data Mining. To date, he has published over 900 papers, and he is certainly a legend in creating impacts in Data Mining: His papers have attracted more than 150,000 citations according to Google Scholar, making him one of the most cited Computer Scientists.

Graduating PhD student Kevin Deweese and advisor John Gilbert received the Best Paper Award from the 2018 SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing for their paper "Evolving Difficult Graphs for Laplacian Solvers," which Kevin presented at the workshop in Bergen, Norway on June 6.

Kevin has accepted a postdoctoral position at the University of Washington. Congratulations, Kevin!

UCSB MOMENT Lab Ph.D. student Esther Showalter has received the prestigious 2018 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Esther is currently advised by Prof. Elizabeth Belding.

Technology for augmented reality (AR) remote collaboration initially developed by CS Professor Matthew Turk and former PhD student Steffen Gauglitz was unveiled this year with much fanfare and under its new identity, Project Chalk, at the world's largest AR and VR annual event.

Anneclaire joins the Computer Science Department after four years at UCSB's Department of Physics. 

PhD student Stratos Dimopoulos, and his research advisors Profs. Chandra Krintz, and Rich Wolski recently received the Best Paper Award for their paper "Justice: A Deadline-aware, Fair-share Resource Allocator for Implementing Multi-analytics" at the IEEE Cluster Conference to be held September 5th - 8th in Hawaii.

IBM created the Ph.D. Fellowship program in the 1950's to recognize and support outstanding graduate students. The IBM PhD Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study.

Featuring keynote speaker Jeffrey Dean, the second annual summit.cs offered a full day of sharing ideas and making connections among students, faculty, alumni, and industry partners. Attendees converged on Corwin Pavilion for Dean's standing room only presentation. 

UCPath Online, our new self-service portal, will be open to all employees Thursday, September 27th!

UCPath Online will be available for viewing, accessing, and updating your personal information, 24/7.

Professor Tevfik Bultan received an Amazon Research Award for his research on "Automatically Detecting Bugs in Identity and Access Management Policies." 

Thirteen of our women students attended the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing conference that was held from Oct 4 - Oct 6 in Orlando, Florida. The conference had more than 18,000 attendees from industry and academia and there were numerous keynote talks by inspiring speakers such as Melinda Gates and Dr. Fei-Fei Li. 
 

Tim's office is located at 2118 Harold Frank Hall.

Randy Modos and Giovanni Vigna share their insights about entrepreneurship in CS in this conversation about "How to start a startup?"

Nicole McCoy joins Department of Computer Science

We couldn't have asked for a better turn out this Halloween! The Staff came together and pulled off pretty awesome decorations and amazing costumes! And... the efforts paid off! We are proud to announce we won 2nd place for the Staff Assembly's Spooky Halloween Competition! 

It is our honor to spread the announcement! Professor Elizabeth Belding named 2018 ACM Fellow for her for contributions to communication in mobile networks and their deployment in developing regions.

Prof. Tevfik Bultan is serving as the Program Committee Co-Chair for the 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).

During the Winter 2017 quarter, Dr. Mirza will be teaching CMPSC 16 (Problem Solving with Computers-I), and conducting a pilot tutor-training program. Prior to UCSB, Dr. Mirza was an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego, where she received her PhD and MS in Computer Engineering. 

Viral Shah, Ph.D. UCSB (CS) 2007 and CEO of Julia Computing, who subsequent to his UCSB degree created the very popular Julia language (with co-founders Stefan Karpinski of UCSB, Alan Edelman of MIT, and Jeff Bezanson of MIT) has announced after 9 years Julia 1.0 has been released and taken the internet by storm! 

The Computer Science Department is pleased to welcome Prof. Yufei Ding, who has accepted our tenure-track faculty job offer in Spring 2017. She joined the department faculty in November 2017.