Congrats to @pconrad.bsky.social and co-authors Aileen Tang, Christopher Hundhausen, Kevin Buffardi, and Summit Haque! 🏆 Their paper, “What Makes a Good Commit? A Delphi Study,” received a Best Paper Award at #CSEET2026. Learn more: cseet26.techconf.org/track/award #UCSB #ComputerScience

The overlap was caught at UCSB. Yao-Ting Lin, a doctoral student advised by Ananth, got a draft from MIT's Seyoon Ragavan the same afternoon he heard about the second proof in a meeting. He connected them before either paper was public. #Cryptography #QuantumComputing

Three hours and eighteen minutes apart, two teams posted proofs of the same open quantum encryption problem—both credit the same AI model with the core idea. UCSB's Prabhanjan Ananth co-authored the first! 🔐 www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #QuantumCryptography

A split second separates reacting from colliding! UCSB postdoc @mariusschneider.bsky.social earns $94K from Zaleski Discovery Award to build neuromorphic wearables that warn blind travelers in time⚡ Link: www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #AssistiveTech #NeuromorphicComputing

Congrats to our ACTION AI Institute for wrapping up its 3rd annual Review & Knowledge Expo on June 25–26! Representatives from all 12 ACTION campuses and partners from NSF, DHS, and IBM celebrated a year of breakthroughs in AI cybersecurity and trustworthy systems💡 #UCSB #ActionAI #AIResearch

What a showcase! 🎉 On June 5th, @ucsb_cs held our annual Undergrad Research Showcase, recognizing students' incredible work in quantum networks, watermarking, server workload architectures, and more. Congrats to all our presenters! 👏 #UCSB #ComputerScience #UndergradResearch

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

NSF-funded program supports and retains first-year engineers

The Integrated Networking, Scholarship and Peer Interaction for First-Year Engineers (INSPIRE) program, which recently wrapped its second year, combines seminars that introduce students to the college, to potential careers and to each other with supportive mentoring along the way.

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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!