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.

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.

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. 

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. 
 

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 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.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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

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! 

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

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

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

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.

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. 

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

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]

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

Having wrapped up his duties as principal architect of this year's summit.cs, Prof. Giovanni Vigna offers his take on the well-attended event. 

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

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.

“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!

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.

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).

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