Are we in an #AI bubble? @cs.ubc.ca professor Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown discusses buff.ly/SG2kUk7

📣Applications for the 2026 Data Science for Social Good Program now open! If you are passionate about leveraging data to create meaningful social impact and meet the eligibility criteria, we encourage you to apply✨ dsi.ubc.ca/data-science... @stat.ubc.ca @science.ubc.ca @arts.ubc.ca

This week, UBC Computer Science researchers will be at #NeurIPS2025! A total of 18 papers from the department were accepted at the conference, including 4 Spotlight Papers, which represent the top 3.3% of submissions. Read more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/12...

In a new study from UBC Computer Science, researchers developed a deep generative model to disentangle biological processes in cells. CellUntangler extracts key representations of data points in single-cell RNA sequencing data to capture cell signals. Read more: www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Applications for UBC’s BCS program is now open! This unique 20-month, full-time, second-degree program is designed for university graduates with a bachelor’s degree outside of computer science. Deadline for applications is January 15, 2026. Apply now! www.cs.ubc.ca/bcs/

In the #BlackFriday madness, which deals are legit? @cs.ubc.ca prof Robert Xiao advises online shoppers to check the URL of any website they use to shop and watch out for deals that are too good to be true. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. Learn more: www.cs.ubc.ca/our-departme...

"The premise of people using LLMs to do fact-checking is flawed," said Dr. Vered Shwartz of @cs.ubc.ca & CIFAR AI chair at @vectorinstitute.ai. "They don't have any notion of the truth … it just generates the statistically most likely next word." www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-new...

I just published "AI Language Technologies are Powerful—But Not Without Limits" cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/ai-l... via @universitypress.cambridge.org

Curious about graduate programs at UBC Computer Science? Join our virtual Q&A sessions about admissions to our MSc, PhD-track and PhD program on Wed Dec 3! Register here: www.cs.ubc.ca/graduate-pro...

UBC computer scientist Dr. Vered Shwartz—a member of CIFAR’s newly launched AI network on safeguarding courts from synthetic content—discusses manipulation and the need for guardrails as we adopt AI. @cs.ubc.ca science.ubc.ca/news/2025-10...

Joanna McGrenere has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her research on interactive computer technologies that can be personalized to the needs of individual users. Dr. McGrenere is Co-head of @cs.ubc.ca. @src-rsc.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4aF...

Meet Enas Kosa! Enas has been a mentor in the Tri-Mentoring Program for the past 12 years. In this interview, she shares her journey from mentee to mentor and how mentorship has shaped her career trajectory. www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/11...

This week is Climate Emergency Week at UBC. The Sustainability Hub has organized events, workshops and activities for the UBC community to show support for climate action work and highlight climate justice issues. Learn more: climateemergency.ubc.ca/climate-emer...

UBC computer scientist Dr. Tamara Munzner has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her visualization research which involves designing systems to solve specific needs for a target group of real-world users. @cs.ubc.ca @src-rsc.bsky.social youtu.be/ZGAUcXfcV8Y?...

Less than a month left to apply to the UBC Computer Science graduate program! I am looking for (fully funded) graduate students. - Admissions info: www.cs.ubc.ca/students/gr... - More details for those interested in working with me: tfjmp.org/#phd

UBC Computer Science welcomes new Assistant Professor Hila Gonen, Ph.D. Dr. Gonen will lead a research group on reliability and multilinguality of language models. Read more about Dr. Gonen’s journey into computer science and her research program at UBC: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/11...

“It’s the same as losing your keys for your business front door — you definitely have multiple copies of that key available and you make sure the right people have it." @cs.ubc.ca prof Dr. Robert Xiao discusses cyber security for organizations buff.ly/y29PEPC

Join us on November 11 at UBC's War Memorial Gymnasium for a ceremony to commemorate Remembrance Day. All UBC students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to attend—to honour and remember all those who served in times of war, military conflict and peace. events.ubc.ca/ubc-remembers/

Curious about graduate programs at UBC Computer Science? Join our virtual Q&A sessions about admissions to our MSc, PhD-track and PhD program on Wed Dec 3! Register here: www.cs.ubc.ca/graduate-pro...

From a personalized AI agent to help you communicate with your long-distance family members to a tool that gives subtle feedback on your body language during video calls, UBC’s eDAPT group presented their studies at CSCW2025 last month. Read more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/11...

Congratulations to Dr. Xin Tang, an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Michael Smith Laboratories and the Department of Computer Science, on recently being appointed a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Computational Cell Biology! Read more: www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/dr-xin-...

UBC Computer Science welcomes new Assistant Professor Peter West! Dr. West will lead a research program studying large language models. Learn more about Dr. West’s journey into computer science and his research program at UBC! www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/11...

One day left to apply!

Whether it’s through a graph or chart, conveying information visually helps people understand data quickly and in an unbiased way. To discuss the latest in data visualization, UBC’s InfoVis Group will be in Vienna next week for the 2025 IEEE VIS conference. Learn more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...

It was such a pleasure talking to Jekaterina and Malikeh about cultural biases in AI. Thank you for hosting me!

Do you have thoughts or questions on the impact or potential of AI for climate? Come to our AI Climate Conversation next Nov. 21st to hear from faculty experts online and meet with colleagues. Register here: climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

🎙️ New episode of Women in AI Research (WiAIR) out now! We sit down with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Asst prof and CIFAR AI Chair) to talk about the important challenge in AI — cultural bias. 🌍 #nlproc #wiair #wiairpodcast /1

From a new tool that analyzes bias in text-to-image models to a new method for summarizing multiple documents, UBC researchers are presenting their papers at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference. Read more about their work: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...

Protect yourself from the flu — Get your flu shot. #UBC is once again offering free flu immunization clinics to students, faculty and staff on Nov. 5 and 12. To learn more, visit srs.ubc.ca/flu

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In a new paper, UBC Computer Science researchers present a deep learning model to help scientists integrate and generate new multiomics data. Read more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...

Come join us in a great department in a great city! I'm not on the search committee, but feel free to be in touch if you have any questions or anything.

We’re excited to feature @veredshwartz.bsky.social , Asst Prof at @cs.ubc.ca, CIFAR AI Chair @vectorinstitute.ai, and author of lostinautomatictranslation.com, in the next @wiair.bsky.social episode.

Dr. Caroline Lemieux and Dr. Xin Tang from UBC’s Department of Computer Science have been appointed as new Canada Research Chairs. Congratulations! Learn more about their research: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...

UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. Learn more: www.cs.ubc.ca/our-departme...

Congratulations to the five UBC Science researchers announced as new Canada Research Chairs, Drs. Caroline Lemieux, Eva Nichols, Julie Prytulak, Chiara Saffirio and Xin Tang. @cs.ubc.ca @chem.ubc.ca @ubcmath.bsky.social science.ubc.ca/news/2025-10...

UBC’s department of Computer Science invites applications for up to 2 full-time tenure-track positions. The department is particularly interested in researchers in: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. @cs.ubc.ca science.ubc.ca/about/careers

@ubcmds.bsky.social is hosting a virtual info session on Tues, Oct 21 from 10 - 11 AM PT. Register now to: ✔️ Learn about the Master of Data Science & Computational Linguistics programs at UBC ✔️ Understand admission requirements ✔️ Ask your questions! Register 👉 tinyurl.com/nev8hv6d

The Software Practices Lab is representing UBC Computer Science in Singapore next week at a joint conference on functional programming, programming languages and software engineering! Learn more about their papers, talks and leadership roles in our new article: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...

Three undergraduate computer science students represented UBC in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals last month. Congratulations to Joel Gunawan, Phu Binh Nguyen, and Rain Zimin Yang! Read more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...

Practice how to DROP, COVER and HOLD ON at 10:16 am on Oct 16 during @shakeoutbc.bsky.social! UBC Vancouver will be testing its emergency notification system, UBC Alert. Students, faculty and staff will receive a test notification by text and voice message. Learn more: srs.ubc.ca/shakeout

From healthcare information to social networks, databases are everywhere. To understand how best to organize, analyze and query large sets of data, researchers gathered at the VLDB conference. Read more about the papers that UBC Computer Science published: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...

UBC research shows AI chatbots can be more persuasive than humans—raising concerns about manipulation, mental health risks and the need for safeguards. buff.ly/vUxucTg

Dr. Vered Shwartz, UBC professor of computer science and author of "Lost in Automatic Translation", on the potential for #AI chatbots to cause harm to users as well as potential safeguards for the future. @cs.ubc.ca science.ubc.ca/news/2025-10...

September 30 marks Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It's a day to honour and uphold Survivors and Intergenerational Survivors of the Indian Residential School system and to commemorate those who didn’t return home. Learn more: irshdc.ubc.ca/learn/orange...

UBC Computer Science researchers debuted a new technology that allows us to swipe or tap to enter a PIN or pick a tip amount. Read more about the study, led by PhD student Bu Li and Associate Professor Dr. Robert Xiao: news.ubc.ca/2025/09/forg...

New research from UBC CS PhD student Bu Li and professor Dr. Robert Xiao!

The Department of Computer Science will be closed on Tues Sept 30 in recognition of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Join the Intergenerational March to commemorate Orange Shirt Day on Sept 30 at UBC. More information here: forestry.ubc.ca/events/2025-...

Join #UBCForestry and @landfood.ubc.ca on September 30 at 1956 Main Mall as we unite for an Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day. Learn more: bit.ly/osd-2025 #UBC #OrangeShirtDay