Congrats to Teaching Prof. Diba Mirza on being selected for CRA’s 2026 Emerging Leaders Cohort! 🎉 This national cohort recognizes rising leaders in computing research and connects them with senior leaders. We're proud to share this recognition! 💙💛 #UCSB #ComputerScience #WomenInComputing #CRA

The 2026 UCSB Computer Science Awards Ceremony celebrated outstanding achievements in research, teaching, mentorship, leadership, entrepreneurship, and service. Here's the full list of awards and recipients: www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #STEM #Research #StudentSuccess

Congrats to CS student Sammy Lesner, recipient of the UCSB College of Engineering's 2026 Tirrell Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research! 🎉 Her work has yielded publications at #SIGIR & #SIGCSE 2026 on search-engine design and computer science eduction! #UCSB #CompSci #UndergradResearch

Big news! 🎉 CS Asst. Prof. Murphy Niu has been awarded a $2 million DARPA grant as part of a multi-institutional team through the HARQ Program. UCSB is helping develop cross-platform error correction protocols to create scalable quantum computing and communication. #UCSB #QuantumComputing #DARPA

A 100x speedup in encrypted LLM token sampling: UCSB grad students and faculty will present Hyperion at ACL 2026 in San Diego. Full article: eprint.iacr.org/2025/2318 #UCSB #ComputerScience #NLP #MachineLearning #Privacy #ACL2026

UCSB's first fully online master's degree launches in Fall 2027.🎓 The Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL) covers semiconductors, quantum computing, AI/ML, and tech management with CS faculty Wenbo Guo, B.S. Manjunath, Murphy Yuezhen Niu, and Ambuj Singh.

UCSB's Dahlia Malkhi elected Fellow of the CBER Forum, joining blockchain scholars from Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Duke as one of the few computer scientists in the cohort. She'll present "Byzantine Consensus in the Lens of Blockchains" at their annual conference on June 4.

Big congratulations to our 2026 Academic Senate award recipients! 🎉 We’re proud to celebrate their impact on teaching, mentorship, and student success at UCSB CS 💙💛 Read more: www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #AcademicExcellence

Hundreds of qubits but quantum advantage remains elusive. @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social conference brings together researchers from Harvard, MIT, Google, and more to explore what's possible before fault tolerance. More info: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/n... #UCSB #ComputerScience #KITP #QuantumAdvantage

To minimize the 50% of students across the country who switch out from their engineering major before graduating, UCSB's Integrated Networking, Scholarship and Peer Interaction for First-Year Engineers (INSPIRE) program provides support, seminars, guidance and mentorship💡 https://ow.ly/wmIb50YS5Hj

The next installment of our AI Foundations & Frontiers Series challenges us to rethink how humans and AI collaborate in Spatial Human–AI Interaction💡 Join April 29 3:30–4:30 PM in HFH 1132 or Zoom. More info: www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #SpatialAI #XR @ucsb.bsky.social

Exciting things happening next week! Six undergraduate researchers from the Embedded Ethics Lab are presenting three talks and one panel at UCSB's campus-wide AI CoP Symposium on April 28-29. Read more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #UCSB #ComputerScience #UndergradResearch #EmbeddedEthics #AI

UCSB CS students just wrapped Capstone Day: presenting AI-powered healthcare tools, a stroke rehab smartwatch app, and a hospital safety system built alongside eight industry sponsors. Read more: www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #Capstone #HealthTech #AI #ComputerEngineering

6.9 million Bitcoin sit in wallets most exposed to a future quantum attack, per the Coinbase Quantum Advisory Board's first position paper, out today. UCSB's @Dahlia Malkhi is a board member: tinyurl.com/35nuzvn2 #UCSB #ComputerScience #QuantumComputing #Blockchain #Cryptography #Coinbase #Crypto

UCSB CS is shining at #ICLR2026! Multiple faculty papers were accepted (including one oral) spanning AI alignment, LLM safety, software benchmarking, and more. Congrats to all involved! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #UCSB #ComputerScience #AIResearch #LLM #VideoGeneration #AIBenchmarks

Team UCSB-WA is heading to the #ICPC World Finals in Dubai as the sole UC representative, after placing 16th at the North American Championship! One of the toughest programming competitions out there. Marking a big moment for #UCSB! @ucsb.bsky.social www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a...

Two Gauchos just earned NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: Naomi Rehman in computer architecture and AI, and Rohil Shah in time-aware search systems. Congrats to each student! www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #NSFGRFP #ComputerArchitecture #InformationRetrieval #WomenInSTEM

Congrats to Professor Yuheng Bu on receiving an NSF CAREER Award for foundational research on LLM watermarking that develops multi-bit methods with provable guarantees, moving well beyond binary AI detection. www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #NSFCareer #AIWatermarking #LLM

New this spring: AI Foundations and Frontiers, a weekly CS seminar series at UCSB. Six speakers, topics from adaptive LLM inference to spatial human-AI interaction. First talk TODAY with Prof. Xifeng Yan. www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #ArtificialIntelligence

🚀 UCSB's new B.S. in Artificial Intelligence has its own home. First cohort starts Fall 2026! 🔗 Explore the program at ai.cs.ucsb.edu. #UCSB #ComputerScience #AI #AIEducation #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #ResponsibleAI #ComputerVision #NLP #STEM

🎉 UCSB Give Day 2026 is here! Support the next generation of innovators at UCSB Computer Science. Every gift—big or small—makes a difference. 💙💛 🔗 Donate today: giveday.ucsb.edu/giving-day/1... #UCSB #UCSBGiveDay #GiveDay2026 #GoGauchos @ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social

Did you know we have a nationally ranked game design program at UCSB? According to The Princeton Review, UCSB's undergrad program in game design studies is one of the top 50 in the U.S., coming in at #28 overall & #4 on the undergraduate West list: https://ow.ly/3hmX50YF7jH

After year 2, @ucsb.bsky.social's NSF-funded INSPIRE program saw 0 attrition among its first-year engineering cohort—compared to a previous 10% loss —led in part by CS faculty Elizabeth Belding and Diba Mirza. www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #StudentRetention #STEM #FirstGen

@ucsb-cs.bsky.social at #CHI2026: 6 papers, 1 Best Paper 🏆 From #AR that works on real bodies, to systems that shape bodily action, to programmable fabrication (DeltaXY Best Paper)—the common thread: computing is getting physical. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/peo... Come find us in Barcelona!

Our own Eric Wang (@ericxw.bsky.social) is speaking at the Library’s #AI in Action series. “Building AI Agents that Reason, Act, and Evolve” → not just chatbots, but systems that actually do things. 🗓 Apr 9, 4–5 PM 📍 #UCSB Library Register to attend here: www.library.ucsb.edu/events-exhib...

Last month, UCSB library launched the "AI in Action" series 🔬 The next event takes place April 9. "It aims to foster an open, interdisciplinary community exploring how AI can deepen understanding, expand access to knowledge and inspire new forms of scholarship." https://ow.ly/u33P50Yt3iF

At #IEEEVR2026, Prof. Tobias Höllerer argued for a simple idea: #AI should empower people, not make them dependent. #XR may be one of the best ways to get this right. #UCSB #HumanCenteredAI

@ucsb.bsky.social CS Chair & Distinguished Professor Divy Agrawal receives the 2026 ACM @sigmod2025.bsky.social Contributions Award—the field’s top honor for service & leadership. Transformative impact on both the conference and the community. Congrats Divy! Read more: cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a...

University of California has topped the National Academy of Inventors list for the most U.S. utility patents 👉 #UCSB holds 389 active US patents, according to UCSB Office of Technology & Industry Alliances, which builds relationships between UCSB & industry collaborators: https://ow.ly/IjZZ50YxBz0

🎉 Congrats to @ucsb.bsky.social CS Associate Professor Arpit Gupta on being named a UC Presidential Faculty Fellow! As a fellow, he'll be working with government agencies to help inform implementation of the $42B BEAD Program. Read more: www.benton.org/blog/what-we... #PublicPolicy #BroadBand

Congratulations to 4 UCSB @ucsb.bsky.social students—Javin Zipkin, Gabriel Pizarro, Ziv Weissman, and Eirini Schoinas—for earning Honorable Mention in the 2026 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! Read more: cra.org/crn/2026/01/... #UCSB #ComputerScience

Will AI subsume computer science? “I think [the question] gets the relationship backwards,” says Prof. Arpit Gupta. Full read: sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~arpitgupta/... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #STEM #AcademicSky #ResearchSky

3 UCSB @ucsb.bsky.social students are heading to the #ICPC North America Championship on March 19–22, 2026, after placing 4th out of 75 teams at regionals. Congrats to Ezra Furtado-Tiwari, Om Mahesh, and David Qiao! Read more: ccs.ucsb.edu/news/2026/cc... #UCSB #GoGauchos #ComputerScience

🚨Fuzzing the brain - automated stress testing for ML-driven neurostimulation🚨 As #MachineLearning begins to control electrical stimulation in neural interfaces, how do we know these models are safe? Paper in Journal of Neural Engineering: bionicvisionlab.org/publications... #BCI #neuroskyence

UCSB CS Capstone 2026 is almost here! Students present full-stack systems spanning security, geospatial computing, & more. 🌎 📍 UCSB Henley Hall | March 11, 2–6 PM (Presentations + Poster Session) #Capstone2026 #DigitalIntelligence #StudentInnovation

🏆UCSB ranked #1 public university in the US for scientific impact, and 3rd in universities overall!🎓 Congratulations to all of our researchers who are leading the global conversation.🌐🧵 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

And my desk has an ocean view 💅

UCSB is launching an undergraduate major in artificial intelligence. Courses in the new major, based in the Computer Science (CS) Department, will be offered starting in the 2026-2027 academic year 💻 Full story: https://ow.ly/yjVq50Yj6Fj

UCSB computer scientist Murphy Yuezhen Niu has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to support her pioneering work in quantum computing ⚛️ Professor Niu is advancing a hybrid approach to scalable, error-resilient quantum machines. Full story: ow.ly/NL5A50VY0LR

Graduating seniors in each undergraduate degree program in The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering select one Outstanding Faculty Award recipient every spring. The Outstanding Faculty for the Class of 2025 are Michael Gordon, Yoga Isukapalli, Ziad Matni, Andrew Teel, and Matthew Begley.👏

Congratulations to Tianle Yu, a computer science major, for receiving the College of Engineering’s 2025 Tirrell Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research!👏 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/recogni...

The CoE is excited to welcome back Xin (Eric) Wang to the Computer Science Department as an assistant professor this July! 💻 💡 Click here to read more about Wang: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/q-new-c... #UCSB #UCSBEngineering #CS

Congratulations to Arpit Gupta, assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at UCSB for receiving a five-year, $700,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) early #CAREER award! 👏

Last but not least is Lily Turkstra, whose poster is assessing the efficacy of visual augmentations for high-stress navigation: Tue, 2:45 - 6:45pm, Pavilion: Poster #56.472 www.visionsciences.org/presentation... 👁️🧪 #XR #VirtualReality #Unity3D #VSS2025

Coming up: Jacob Granley on whether V1 maintains working memory via spiking activity. Prior evidence from fMRI and LFPs - now, rare intracortical recordings in a blind human offer a chance to test it directly. 👁️ #VSS2025 🕥 Sun 10:45pm · Talk Room 1 🧠 www.visionsciences.org/presentation...

The CoE is excited to welcome Yuheng Bu, currently an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida, to the UCSB Computer Science Department as an assistant professor this July!🖥️ 💡 #UCSB #UCSBEngineering #ComputerScience

Our @bionicvisionlab.org is at #VSS2025 with 2 talks and a poster! First up is PhD Candidate Byron A. Johnson: Fri, 4:30pm, Talk Room 1: Differential Effects of Peripheral and Central Vision Loss on Scene Perception and Eye Movement Patterns www.visionsciences.org/presentation...