“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!

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

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.

We are pleased to congratulate Daniel Spokoyny on his outstanding achievement of being selected to receive the Chancellor's Award for Excellent in Undergraduate Research.

Prof. Tobias Hollerer received an Early Innovator Award at the IEEE ISWC/Ubicomp joint conference, the main conference venue for research in wearable and ubiquitous computing. The award recognizes the paper from the first ISCW conference that has had the most impact in the subsequent 20 years.

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. 

On Monday, November 5, 2018 9:00am - 10:00am, Professor Chandra Krintz will be giving a keynote at the 2018 International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD). 

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.

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.

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.

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! 

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!

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

Prof.  Xifeng Yan is serving as program co-chair of the 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM19), which will be held in Calgary, Canada between May 2 and 4, 2019.  The conference is sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Data Mining and Analytics and held in cooperation with the American Statistical Association.

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

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]

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. 

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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