Research Spotlight

Best Paper Award at CogSIMA 2014

UCSB Four Eyes Lab PhD student James Schaffer, researcher John O’Donovan, professor Tobias Höllerer, and colleagues at SA Technologies, the US Army Research Lab, and Carnegie Mellon University have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Inter-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2014), which took place in San Antonio, TX on [...]

Kedlaya and Hardekopf receive best paper award at VEE 2014

PhD student Madhukar Kedlaya and Professor Ben Hardekopf received a Best Paper Award at the recent Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE 2014), which took place on March 1-2, 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The award was given for the paper “Deoptimization for Dynamic Language JITs on Typed, Stack-based Virtual Machines,” co-authored with Behnam Robatmili and Calin [...]

Prof. Giovanni Vigna on NPR’s All Tech Considered

Professor Giovanni Vigna discusses cybercrime on NPR’s All Tech Considered. Here’s the link.

UCSB CS alum Aydin Buluç receives DOE Early Career Award

Dr. Aydin Buluç, who received his PhD in 2010 with advisor John Gilbert, has received a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award. This article describes Dr. Buluç’s research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that aims to develop new data-mining algorithms to discover new biofuels.

MIT Tech Review writes about CS DBL research

Research by PhD student Petko Bogdanov and his colleagues in the Bioinformatics and Database Lab, directed by Professor Ambuj Singh, is reported on by the MIT Technology Review in an article entitled What’s Your Social-Media Genotype?

Department of Computer Science

University of California, Santa Barbara