Augmented reality (AR) is one of today's most fascinating and future-oriented areas of computer science and technology. By overlaying computer-generated information on views of the real world, AR amplifies human perception and cognition in remarkable new ways. Do you like the virtual first-down line in football games on TV? That's AR. And AR apps are rapidly coming to billions of smartphones, too. Working in AR requires knowledge from diverse disciplines, including computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction (HCI).

To celebrate National Cyber Security Awareness Month Dr. Vigna will discuss how AI is used in security and the (little understood) pitfalls of adversarial machine learning.

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.

The Department of Computer Science congratulates Prof. Rachel Lin for winning the Best Paper Award at EUROCRYPT 2018, one of the top conferences in the area of Cryptography. This joint work, entitled "k-Round MPC from k-Round OT via Garbled Interactive Circuits," is a collaboration between Prof. Lin and IBM Researcher Fabrice Benhamouda at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights.

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

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.

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

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. 

Drop off your donation today to HFH 2104 and/or Trailer 698! We will be running our Holiday Food Drive, November 14th to December 14, 2018. 

The Institute for Energy Efficiency announced this year’s Peter J. Frenkel Foundation fellows. This award is made possible through the generous support of The Peter J. Frenkel Foundation and is granted to two advanced doctoral candidates in recognition of their outstanding research contributions to the field of energy efficiency.

UCSB Department of Computer Science Prof. William Wang and Ph.D. student Jiawei Wu are the recipients of a 2018 Facebook Research Award to work on Low-Resource Machine Translation. 

UCSB Computer Science alumnus, Gianluca Stringhini, currently Assistant Professor at Boston University, received Best Paper award at IMC 2018! 

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.

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

Cyber security is the topic for this Facebook Live audience Q&A

Computer scientist Rich Wolski named to the Duval Family Presidential Chair in Energy Efficiency, made possible by a gift from Glenn ’80 and Bettina Duval.

December 12, 2018 - Professor Rich Wolski was featured on Hill.TV's "Boundless" series where he explained how smart farming will increase access to food. 

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.

Prof. William Wang receives gift fund from Bytedance Inc. to explore the area of image and knowledge guided language generation problems. 

The SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time awards recognize papers that have had a sustained and significant impact in the SIGMOBILE community over at least a decade. The award recognizes that a paper's influence is often not fully apparent at the time of publication, and it can be best judged with the perspective of time.

Congratulations to Prof. Linda Petzold for being selected to receive the 2018 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award!

The Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara is continuing a period of strategic growth, with plans for new faculty positions that will add to core strengths, explore new and emerging areas of the field, and leverage opportunities across disciplinary boundaries. Towards this goal, the department invites applications for tenure-track or tenured appointments at the Assistant/Associate/Full Professor levels, for the 2019-2020 academic year. For primary consideration apply by November 16, 2018; however, positions will remain open until filled.

Professor and Department Vice Chair Ömer Eğecioğlu has been a Computer Science Department faculty member at UC Santa Barbara since 1985. He also holds a joint-appointment in UCSB's College of Creative Studies (CCS).  

The University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Department of Computer Science for 2019-2020 academic year with the potential for a joint appointment in another department, in areas encompassing Computer Science and Neuroscience that include, but are not limited to: network science, neuro-computer architecture, computational vision, biologically-inspired machine learning, and computational neuroscience. For primary consideration apply by November 30, 2018; however, the position will remain open until filled.

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! 

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.

The Department of Computer Science welcomes Dr. Trinabh Gupta, who will join the faculty in Spring 2018.

We would like to recognize our faculty who are currently Fellows with organizations such as IEEE, ACM, AAAS, NAE, ASME, SIAM, and IAPR. Each of these organizations and their members' mission is to inspire, innovate, and contribute to having a positive impact in the global community for a better tomorrow.

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.

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.

ALBANY, N.Y. (Oct. 4, 2018) –When the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami struck Dec. 26 of that year it took the lives of more than 227,000 people. Despite being well into the Internet Era, warning systems on a broad international scale were nonexistent, as remote areas of Indonesia, Thailand and India suffered unfathomable loss. But 14 years later, gaps still remain in rural communities – even in the United States.

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. 

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.