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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is AI reshaping the internet and human mind simultaneously? 🤔 Join CS Professor Arpit Gupta & CS Affiliate Miguel Eckstein at the UCSB Library's next AI in Action Lecture on 9/29 at 4 PM to learn more! 🌐 🧠 Read more 🔗 news.ucsb.edu/2026/022806/... #UCSB #ComputerScience #AI #AgenticAI #AIinAction
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UCSB researchers discuss AI role in computing and cognition
Computer scientist Arpit Gupta and vision scientist Miguel Eckstein will discuss AI as a research tool during UCSB Library's "AI in Action" public speaker event on Sept. 29.
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today at 3:30 p.m. is our colloquium on phylogenetic networks with Dr. Tandy Warnow! 🧬 She will introduce CAMUS, a breakthrough method that estimates networks with unprecedented speed and scalability! Read more: www.cs.ucsb.edu/index.php/ha... #ComputerScience #Bioinformatics #Phylogenetics #STEM
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Progress on Estimating Phylogenetic Networks | UCSB Computer Science
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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: www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... #UCSB #ComputerScience #ML #ComputerGraphics #SIGGRAPH
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A new study in Neuron, co-first authored by @jacobgranley.bsky.social from @bionicvisionlab.org, with @ethz.ch and @umh.es, is using AI to design smarter, more accurate stimulation for blind patients. www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social #ComputerScience #Neurotech
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Researchers from three institutions, including #UCSB, have demonstrated that artificial intelligence has the potential to make future visual prostheses, like a bionic eye, more precise, predictable and responsive to an individual user 👁️ Full story: ow.ly/XYKX50ZxM6V
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Deep learning refines how bionic eyes communicate with the brain
UCSB associate professor of computer science Michael Beyeler and his colleagues used a deep-learning model to design patterns of electrical stimulation for electrodes temporarily implanted in the visual cortex — the region at the back of the brain that processes visual information — of a blind participant.
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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
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An Open Quantum Encryption Problem, Solved Twice in One Day | UCSB Computer Science
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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
Headshot photo of UCSB CS Teaching Professor, Diba Mirza.
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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.
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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💡 ow.ly/wmIb50YS5Hj
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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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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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...
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).
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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
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Yuheng Bu Receives NSF CAREER Award for Research on LLM Watermarking | UCSB Computer Science
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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
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AI Foundations and Frontiers: A CS Seminar Series | UCSB Computer Science
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚀 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
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Home | Artificial Intelligence - Computer Science
The Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence at UC Santa Barbara prepares you to design, build, and evaluate AI systems that learn from data, interpret the world, and support decision-making acr...
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🎉 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
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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: ow.ly/3hmX50YF7jH
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
@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!
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Conference Programs
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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...
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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." ow.ly/u33P50Yt3iF
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UCSB Library launches ‘AI in Action’ speaker series
UCSB Library has launched its "AI in Action" speaker series to explore how the rapidly advancing technology can deepen understanding, expand access to knowledge and inspire new forms of scholarship.
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
@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! Read more: cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a...
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Divyakant Agrawal Receives 2026 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award | UCSB Computer Science
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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: ow.ly/IjZZ50YxBz0
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UC is No. 1 in patents in new U.S. ranking
UC is No. 1 in a National Academy of Inventors ranking of U.S. schools granted the most U.S. utility patents released today, March 19. Patents are a key driver of economic success and quality of life.
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🎉 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
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What We Can’t See, We Can’t Fix: The Journey to Build Independent and Accessible Broadband Data
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara built the Broadband-Plan Querying Tool to independently measures broadband availability and affordability by mimicking what any consumer can ...
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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
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2025-26 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Recipients Announced
By Sheila Khan, Program Associate, CRA-E The Computing Research Association (CRA) congratulates the recipients of the 2025-26 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Faculty from institutio…
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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
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Computing Is a Generative Discipline
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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
Group photo of the team member Ezra, Om, and David, with this faculty sponser. They are wearing navy blue team shirts.
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 05/03/2026
🚨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: bionicvisionlab.org/publications... #BCI #neuroskyence
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Fuzzing the brain: Automated stress testing for the safety of ML-driven neurostimulation | Bionic Vision Lab
We propose a systematic, quantitative approach to detect and characterize unsafe stimulation patterns in ML-driven neurostimulation systems.
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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
Capstone flyer reading Digital Intelligence in the Wild: from algorithms to impact. Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🏆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
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Adele Myers @adelemyers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
And my desk has an ocean view 💅
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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: ow.ly/yjVq50Yj6Fj
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UCSB computer science department to offer undergraduate major in AI
Courses in the new major, based in the Computer Science Department and part of the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering, will be offered starting in the 2026-2027 academic year.
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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
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Murphy Niu receives NSF CAREER award for quantum computing innovation
UC Santa Barbara computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu, who is also a physicist, has been awarded a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to support her work ...
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