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!
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#UCSB #ComputerScience #AIResearch #LLM #VideoGeneration #AIBenchmarks
Team photo of Coach Wesley Hung ’24 (CoE Computer Science), Ezra Furtado-Tiwari ’28 (CCS Computing, Mathematics), Om Mahesh ’28 (CCS Mathematics; CoE Computer Science), and David Qiao ’26 (CoE Computer Science; L&S Mathematics).
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
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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!
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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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!
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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
Group photo of the team member Ezra, Om, and David, with this faculty sponser. They are wearing navy blue team shirts.
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:
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#BCI #neuroskyence
Capstone flyer reading Digital Intelligence in the Wild: from algorithms to impact. Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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
She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.
5 headshots of faculty members, clockwise from top left, Michael Gordon, Yoga Isukapalli, Ziad Matni, Andrew Tell, and Matthew Begley
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.👏
headshot of Tianle Yu
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
Arpit Gupta headshot
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! 👏