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.

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! 

In a competition considered the Olympics of hacking, UC Santa Barbara’s resident hackers took home the bronze this year.

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

Professor Linda Petzold was named the inaugural Mehrabian Endowed Chair in College of Engineering. 

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

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

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.

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). 

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

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

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 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.

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).

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

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.

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. 

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. 
 

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.

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

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

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

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! 

Congratulations to Prof. Agrawal for this distinguished recognition from one of the world's foremost scientific societies!

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.

Nicole McCoy joins Department of Computer Science

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.