UCSB Computer Science Department

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

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

What’s a day in the life of a @UCSBengineering Computer Science student like? High schoolers from SBHS CS Academy found out firsthand during last week's campus visit! 💻✨

Learn more: https://t.co/EUDoEXne9u

#UCSB #ComputerScience #CSEducation #FutureTechLeaders #GauchoPride

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

CS@UCSB showed up at #ISMAR2026! 🎉

🏆 Prof. Michael Beyeler & team: Best Paper Award (top 1.1% of submissions)
🥈 Prof. Tobias Höllerer & team: Best Paper Honorable Mention
🧠 Prof. Beyeler co-organized the NeuroXR workshop

https://t.co/4hyRE9BTyJ

#UCSB #XR #ComputerScience

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

More photo highlights from our CS Fall Walk & BBQ! 🍂 📸

Thanks again to all our students, faculty, and staff who joined us to kick off the new quarter with great food & sunshine! 🌭 ☀️

Drop you favorite memory in the comments below 👇

#UCSB #ComputerScience #GauchoPride

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

Good food, great code, better company! 🍔🔥 Here’s a look back at our recent CS Fall BBQ.

Thanks to everyone who came out to eat, connect, and celebrate the start of the Fall quarter with us! 💙💛

#UCSB #UCSBCS #ComputerScience #GauchoPride #FallBBQ

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

Congrats to CS Prof. @xwang_lk on his 3 new awards ($180K+) to advance practical, efficient & proactive AI agents! 🏆 ✨

🔹 3rd consecutive @Cisco Research Award
🔹 UCSB IEE Software Impact Grant
🔹 UCSB Academic Senate Grant

#UCSB #AI #MachineLearning #CiscoResearch #AgenticAI

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

Love programming? 💻 The UCSB ICPC Local Contest is this Sunday, Oct. 25 in Phelps 3526. Registration closes Oct. 22 at midnight!

Top teams advance to the SoCal Regionals on Nov. 7! 🏆

Register now: https://t.co/NsNfUGH98s

#UCSB #ComputerScience #ICPC #CompetitiveProgramming

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

CS Gauchos take Seattle!🌲 Dept. Chair Divyakant Agrawal recently reconnected with 15 alumni (spanning 25 years of CS history) for an impromptu dinner!

Seattle Alumni — Join the new CS Seattle Alumni LinkedIn group: https://t.co/2wYohol4tT 💙💛

#UCSB #ComputerScience #Alumni

[Nina Miolane 🦋 @ninamiolane.bsky.social @ninamiolane]

Thanks @NSF for granting us a $1M award to advance the mathematical foundations of AI!

W/ @HaewonJeong00 @YaoQin_UCSB Sanjukta K, we will study how AI learns higher-order interactions in physical systems: from 🌠 stars in galaxies to 🧠 neurons in the brain.

@ucsbece @ucsbcs

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

Calling all CS and CE students! Join ACM at UCSB tomorrow for an info session with Arista! Meet their team, explore internships and full-time roles, and enjoy free pizza! 🍕

Oct. 14 | 12–1 PM | Henley Hall 1010

No registration required!

#UCSB #ComputerScience #ACM #TechCareers

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

Big news! 🎉 CS faculty receive a $1M NSF award to develop AI that uncovers the scientific laws governing complex systems.

This also marks the first federal grant for UCSB's Real AI initiative! 🏆

Read more: https://t.co/YzCCPMDEFv

#UCSB #ComputerScience #AI #NSF #WomenInSTEM

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

Big news! 🎉 UCSB's new undergraduate BS degree in AI is officially here — and the inaugural cohort just kicked off their freshman seminar with renowned AI researcher Professor Xifeng Yan! 🤖

Read more: https://t.co/mfin940A3y

#UCSB #ComputerScience #AI #AIEducation #FutureOfAI

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

Is AI reshaping the internet and human mind simultaneously? 🤔

Join Profs. Arpit Gupta & Miguel Eckstein at the UCSB Library's next AI in Action Lecture on 9/29 at 4 PM to learn more! 🌐 🧠

Read more 🔗 https://t.co/dfr2O0ZqjW

#UCSB #ComputerScience #AI #AgenticAI #AIinAction

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

TODAY at 3:30 is our next CS Colloquium with Dr. Tandy Warnow! 🚨

Dr. Warnow will introduce CAMUS, a breakthrough ISMB 2026 method for fast, scalable phylogenetic network estimation. 🧬✨

Read more: https://t.co/efFAkY9DrS

#ComputerScience #Bioinformatics #Phylogenetics #STEM

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

Every CGI film you've watched was shaped by research done at UCSB! 🎬 CS Affiliate Prof. Pradeep Sen and researchers received ACM SIGGRAPH's Test of Time Award for their pioneering 2015 paper.

Read more: https://t.co/bnwLtUPkPl

#UCSB #ComputerScience #ComputerGraphics #SIGGRAPH

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

A new study in Neuron, co-first authored by
@jacob_granley from the Bionic Vision Lab, with
@ETH_en and UMH, is using AI to design smarter, more accurate stimulation for blind patients.

https://t.co/Ov004VeFOs

@ucsantabarbara #Neurotech #BionicVision #DeepLearning

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

Congrats to @pconrad 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: https://t.co/DYm3PGunE5

#UCSB #ComputerScience

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

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

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

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! 🔐

https://t.co/6gXL95asHC

#UCSB #ComputerScience #QuantumCryptography

[UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsbcs]

A split second separates reacting from colliding! UCSB postdoc @Mars_Schneider earns $94K from Zaleski Discovery Award to build neuromorphic wearables that warn blind travelers in time⚡

Link: https://t.co/IkXR4eGfy6

#UCSB #ComputerScience #AssistiveTech #NeuromorphicComputing

[Wenbo Guo @WenboGuo4]

🚨🚨 Off-peak PR!

6 papers at #ICML2026! Here's the lineup 👇

🤖 OpenSage: Self-Programming Agent Generation Engine: The FIRST ADK that allows agents to build agents by themselves without human-defined workflows or topologies. Given a task, OpenSage allows agents to program, assemble, and evolve by themselves. Agents built by OpenSage have appeared at the top of multiple benchmarks at the time of release, including CyberGym, TerminalBench, and SWE-Bench-Pro. Recently, we constructed SageCTF with OpenSage, which outperformed more than 90% of the teams in DECCON CTF Qualification 2026, the most difficult CTF competition in the world.
🔗https://t.co/fVeFDXTRNa

🧠 rePIRL: Learn PRM with Inverse RL for LLM Reasoning: A new exploration of intermediate rewards: learning process reward models with inverse RL — a principled route to dense, step-level signal that makes LLM reasoning stronger and trains more stable and more efficient.
🔗 https://t.co/WYI0V5qmWv

🛡️ BlueCodeAgentA: a blue-teaming agent powered by automated red teaming — turning attack knowledge into defense for safer CodeGen AI.
🔗 https://t.co/YSfi87MMVd

🌐 CyberCycle: Scalable Real-World Benchmark for AI Agents' End-to-End Cybersecurity Capabilities.
🔗 https://t.co/hY2SEFzCuT

⚔️ Position: To Defend Against Cyber Attacks, We Must Teach AI Agents to Hack.
🔗 https://t.co/doGPR5xNCz

🔁 Position: AgentBeats: Agentifying Agent Assessment for Openness, Standardization, and Reproducibility: let agents evaluate agents.
🔗 https://t.co/IkwC3BkaIB

#ICML2026 #AIAgents #LLMReasoning #AgentSecurity