Assistant Professor and cryptographer Stefano Tessaro receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award for "The Theoretical Foundations of Symmetric Cryptography." 

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Winner of the 2016 SIGKDD Ph.D. Dissertation Runner Up Award 

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.

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. 

Computer Science is pleased to welcome Lecturer Richert Wang to UC Santa Barbara. Check out our first interview with Richert.

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

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.

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.

Nicole McCoy joins Department of Computer Science

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.

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.

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).

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.

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. 

Social networks have not only created new ways of interaction between people, but they have also become a source of information for research on human behavior and for the development of tools for collective action. This is the field of research that motivates Saiph Savage, who earned her PhD at UC Santa Barbara in the Four Eyes Lab. Prof. Savage has been recognized by the MIT Technology Review as a 2018 Innovator under 35 Latin America.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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. 

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

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]

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. 

“Richert has encouraged my passions and has given me opportunities to grow as an artist, student leader, and person. He has always been so understanding and has helped me feel grounded.”

We couldn't have said it better ourselves! Find out more about Prof. Richert Wang's involvement with UCSB College of Creative Studies and the Game Development Club in this article!

UCSB's College of Engineering and Computer Science students bestowed the honor during June 2017 Graduation