UCSB Computer Science Department

Official account of UC Santa Barbara's Computer Science Department.

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A 100x speedup in encrypted LLM token sampling: UCSB grad students and faculty will present Hyperion at ACL 2026 in San Diego.

Full article: https://t.co/76UvBuEmc9

#UCSB #ComputerScience #NLP #MachineLearning #Privacy #ACL2026

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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 @WenboGuo4, B.S. Manjunath, Murphy Yuezhen Niu, and Ambuj Singh.

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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.

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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: https://t.co/vd92rBWBoO

#UCSB #ComputerScience #AcademicExcellence

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Hundreds of qubits but quantum advantage remains elusive! @KITP_UCSB brings researchers from Harvard, MIT, Google, & more to explore what's possible before fault tolerance. This week from May 4-7!

More Info: https://t.co/DSCvZfPpcJ

#UCSB #ComputerScience #KITP #QuantumAdvantage

[Xin Eric Wang ✈️ CVPR 2026 @xwang_lk]

Our paper “Learning Situated Awareness in the Real World” has been accepted to #ICML2026 as a Spotlight (top 2.2%)! Congrats to @_Chuhan_Li and the team!

We introduce SAW-Bench, a real-world egocentric benchmark for evaluating situated (first-person) spatial reasoning in multimodal models, uncovering a large gap between humans and current systems. All videos recorded via Meta Ray-Ban 2 glasses!

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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 on Zoom.

More info: https://t.co/p5sgnGIoJt

#UCSB #ComputerScience #SpatialAI #XR

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Thank you to everyone who attended our Long Now Talk at The Interval with mathematician and machine learning researcher @ninamiolane and science historian @claire_i_webb. They explored the question of consciousness from an unexpected direction: geometry.

Geometry is the most ancient branch of physics, Miolane said. It’s the language we use to describe the curvature of spacetime and the general relativity of the universe. Might it also map the universe inside us?

Stay tuned, the full Talk will be released on YouTube next week. Huge thanks to our partners @berggruenInst @NoemaMag for a magical evening.

Photos by Anthony Thornton.

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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.

https://t.co/3Mwcqf74Ul

#UCSB #ComputerScience #UndergradResearch #EmbeddedEthics #AI

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UCSB CS students on Capstone Day 2026: presenting AI-powered healthcare tools, interactive web portals, and more—built alongside @Google, @salesforce, @amazon, and eight industry sponsors.

https://t.co/pXJNgUGmCP

#UCSB #ComputerScience #HealthTech #AI #ComputerEngineering

[UCSB NLP & AI @ucsbNLP]

A cool related work from our lab: Group-Evolving Agents: Open-Ended Self-Improvement via Experience Sharing (https://t.co/PN08eKxZuU) solves the exact problems of how to make agents self learn. Good read.

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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 among the board's members:
https://t.co/7oKmU1HNyD
#UCSB #ComputerScience #Blockchain #Coinbase

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UCSB CS shines at #ICLR2026!

Multiple faculty papers were accepted (including one oral) spanning AI alignment, LLM safety, software benchmarking, and more. Congrats to all involved!

https://t.co/357Ddm5VcB

#UCSB #ComputerScience #AIResearch #LLM #VideoGeneration #AIBenchmarks

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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! @ucsantabarbara

https://t.co/U7q6Wr5Ns8

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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.

https://t.co/DFMLqa6yky

@ucsantabarbara #ComputerScience #NSFGRFP #ComputerArchitecture #InformationRetrieval #WomenInSTEM

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Congrats to @YuhengBu on receiving an NSF CAREER Award for foundational research on LLM watermarking, developing multi-bit methods that moving well beyond binary AI detection.

https://t.co/rszTMcqAID

#UCSB #ComputerScience #NSFCareer #AIWatermarking #ResponsibleAI #GenerativeAI

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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.

https://t.co/p5sgnGIoJt

#UCSB #ComputerScience #ArtificialIntelligence

[Dahlia Malkhi @dahlia_malkhi]

Read our 🗞️ : https://t.co/AeNdKkG4UC

with Rithwik Kerur, @PasinduTennage , @Daeinar , @alberto_sonnino , @zablotchi

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🚀 @UCSB's new B.S. in Artificial Intelligence has its own home. First cohort starts Fall 2026!

🔗 Explore the program at https://t.co/ZJlIVE5LiW.

#UCSB #ComputerScience #AI #AIEducation #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #ResponsibleAI #ComputerVision #NLP #STEM