PhD Candidate May ElSherif (center) wins Graduate Mentoring Award

Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, November 20th: Giovanni Vigna, Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for contributions to Internet security and cybercrime prevention.

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. 

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.

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.

Nicole McCoy joins Department of Computer Science

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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).  

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

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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. 

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. 

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

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.

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.

“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!

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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