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Big congratulations to our 2026 Academic Senate award recipients! 🎉🏆 Rich Wolski – Outstanding Graduate Mentor🏆 Frederic...
05/11/2026

Big congratulations to our 2026 Academic Senate award recipients! 🎉

🏆 Rich Wolski – Outstanding Graduate Mentor
🏆 Frederic Gibou – Distinguished Teaching
🏆 Ziad Matni – Distinguished Teaching
🏆 Junrui Liu – Outstanding Teaching Assistant

We’re proud to celebrate their impact on teaching, mentorship, and student success at UCSB CS 💙💛

Proud to have students who build things that actually matter.💡This past March, 40 UCSB CS students presented real soluti...
04/23/2026

Proud to have students who build things that actually matter.💡

This past March, 40 UCSB CS students presented real solutions to real problems at our annual Capstone Day—from an AI system cutting medical referral wait times from days to under an hour, a smartwatch app helping stroke survivors rehab at home, a hospital tool that intercepts dangerous recalls before they reach patients, and more.

Judges from Google, Salesforce, and Amazon called it the best day of their year! We’re inclined to agree!

Congrats to this year’s Capstone cohort on your incredible work! 💙💛

Quantum computing is still years away from threatening blockchain security. The work to prepare for it has to start now....
04/22/2026

Quantum computing is still years away from threatening blockchain security. The work to prepare for it has to start now.
That’s the headline from the Coinbase Independent Advisory Board on Quantum Computing and Blockchain, which released its first position paper today. Professor Malkhi, who heads our Foundations of Financial Technology lab (https://fiftech.cs.ucsb.edu), represents UCSB on the board alongside researchers from Stanford, UT Austin, Bar-Ilan, the Ethereum Foundation, and Eigen Labs. 🔐
Proud to have this work coming out of UCSB CS.
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PostQuantum Fintech Research GradSchool STEM TechResearch Crypto

Proud to share that Yuheng Bu has received an NSF CAREER Award for foundational research on LLM watermarking. 🏆What if A...
04/16/2026

Proud to share that Yuheng Bu has received an NSF CAREER Award for foundational research on LLM watermarking. 🏆

What if AI-generated text could carry a reliable, traceable signal? Not just a yes/no flag, but a full attribution pointing to a specific model, system, or authorized use?

That’s the problem Yuheng is solving. Rigorous guarantees. Robust spoofing. Text quality preserved. 💡

The NSF CAREER Award is the most prestigious early-career recognition in the foundation’s portfolio, and we could not be more proud. 💙💛

Full article: https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/announcement/yuheng-bu-receives-nsf-career-award-research-llm-watermarking

04/06/2026

CS@UCSB is taking Barcelona! 🇪🇸 🎉

Our faculty is heading to ACM CHI Conference 2026 with 6 accepted papers—by Distinguished Professor Tobias Höllerer, Associate Professor Misha Sra, and Assistant Professor and Associated Faculty Jennifer Jacobs—and including a Best Paper Award.

From AR skill training to embodied computing ethics to next-gen digital fabrication tools (check out the video for a live demonstration by Professor Jacobs), our faculty are tackling some of the most exciting and important questions in Human-Computer Interaction today. 💡

The common thread? Computing is becoming more physical, more embodied, and more entangled with the real world — and we’re here for it. 🌍

Read more: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/people/affiliations/university-of-california-santa-barbara

CS research making real-world impact 💻🌍Congrats to Associate Professor Arpit Gupta on being named a UC Presidential Facu...
03/26/2026

CS research making real-world impact 💻🌍

Congrats to Associate Professor Arpit Gupta on being named a UC Presidential Faculty Fellow! 🎉

As part of his 2026 fellowship, he’ll be heading to Washington, D.C. to help shape how the $42B federal broadband program reaches underserved communities. His team’s research on broadband access has already influenced state legislation, regulatory discussions, and even a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief.

We congratulate Professor Gupta on this fellowship and can’t wait to see the impact his work will bring! 💙💛

Read more: https://cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/announcement/arpit-gupta-selected-uc-presidential-faculty-fellows-program

3 UCSB students are heading to the ICPC North America Championship this month after placing 4th out of 75 teams at the S...
03/06/2026

3 UCSB students are heading to the ICPC North America Championship this month after placing 4th out of 75 teams at the Southern California Regional of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) — congrats to the team! 👏

• Ezra Furtado-Tiwari ’28 (CCS Computing; Mathematics)
• Om Mahesh ’28 (CCS Mathematics; CoE Computer Science)
• David Qiao ’26 (CoE Computer Science; L&S Mathematics)

The North America Championship takes place March 19-22, 2026. We wish Ezra, Om, and David best of luck as they represent on the national stage! 💻

Special thanks to for supporting these students.

Full story: https://ccs.ucsb.edu/news/2026/ccs-students-help-lead-ucsb-team-icpc-nationals

CS Capstone 2026 is here—where digital intelligence meets the real world!Come see the full-stack intelligent systems our...
03/04/2026

CS Capstone 2026 is here—where digital intelligence meets the real world!

Come see the full-stack intelligent systems our student teams have engineered for real-world deployment beyond the lab—spanning cyber security, storytelling, visual systems, and more. 🌎

📍 UCSB Henley Hall
📅 Wednesday, March 11
⏰ 2:00–6:00 PM (Presentations + Posters w/ Snacks)

Come celebrate our students’ work. We’d love to see you there! ✨

What if AI agents could improve themselves without increasing deployment cost?CS faculty Xin Eric Wang and researcher Zh...
03/03/2026

What if AI agents could improve themselves without increasing deployment cost?

CS faculty Xin Eric Wang and researcher Zhaotian Weng were recently featured in for their work on Group-Evolving Agents (GEA)—a new framework that helps AI systems adapt and improve collectively, without requiring constant human intervention.

In rigorous benchmarks, GEA substantially outperformed prior self-evolving approaches and matched leading human-designed frameworks, all while maintaining standard inference costs at deployment.

We are proud to see this work recognized and progress toward a more resilient, self-improving AI systems.

Read more:
https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/new-agent-framework-matches-human-engineered-ai-systems-and-adds-zero

Test your cybersecurity skills on a global stage—iCTF is back March 9-13!International Capture The Flag (iCTF), sponsore...
03/02/2026

Test your cybersecurity skills on a global stage—iCTF is back March 9-13!

International Capture The Flag (iCTF), sponsored by the ACTION AI Institute, is a global cybersecurity competition that tests your security skills while incorporating themes around artificial intelligence and agents.

There’s still time to participate—register your team of up to ten players before the competition kicks off on March 9 at 10 AM. All teams require an associated faculty or lecturer when registering.

For more competition details, visit the link in our bio.

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