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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · Feb 6
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UC Santa Barbara Computer Science news magazine, Summer 2024. Cover image shows an AI being at the beach. Highlighted stories include the ACTION Institute; Smart Bionic Eye; Human-AI Integration; and Awards & Honors.
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Graduating seniors in each undergraduate degree program in The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering select one Outstanding Faculty Award recipient every spring. The Outstanding Faculty for the Class of 2025 are Michael Gordon, Yoga Isukapalli, Ziad Matni, Andrew Teel, and Matthew Begley.👏
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June 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Congratulations to Tianle Yu, a computer science major, for receiving the College of Engineering’s 2025 Tirrell Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research!👏

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June 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The CoE is excited to welcome back Xin (Eric) Wang to the Computer Science Department as an assistant professor this July! 💻 💡

Click here to read more about Wang: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/q-new-c...
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May 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Congratulations to Arpit Gupta, assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at UCSB for receiving a five-year, $700,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) early #CAREER award! 👏
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May 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Conscience Computer Science: UCSB Launches First Embedded Ethics Lab | The Daily Nexus
Maryam Majedi, an assistant teaching professor in the Computer Science Department at UCSB, is launching the university’s first Embedded Ethics Lab, a project designed to integrate ethical reflection d...
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May 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Please join us for UC Santa Barbara’s New Venture Competition (NVC) Finals on Thursday, May 22nd at 3:30PM, in Corwin Pavilion on the UCSB campus. The NVC Finals will highlight the business ideas of.....
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May 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Last but not least is Lily Turkstra, whose poster is assessing the efficacy of visual augmentations for high-stress navigation:

Tue, 2:45 - 6:45pm, Pavilion: Poster #56.472
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👁️🧪 #XR #VirtualReality #Unity3D #VSS2025
VSS PresentationPresentation – Vision Sciences Society
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May 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Coming up: Jacob Granley on whether V1 maintains working memory via spiking activity. Prior evidence from fMRI and LFPs - now, rare intracortical recordings in a blind human offer a chance to test it directly. 👁️ #VSS2025

🕥 Sun 10:45pm · Talk Room 1
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Schematic illustrating the phosphenes elicited by an intracortical prosthesis. A 96-channel Utah array is shown, stimulated with biphasic pulse trains. An arrow points to drawings of visual percepts elicited by electrical stimulation Jacob Granley headshot
May 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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The CoE is excited to welcome Yuheng Bu, currently an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida, to the UCSB Computer Science Department as an assistant professor this July!🖥️ 💡

#UCSB #UCSBEngineering #ComputerScience
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May 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Our @bionicvisionlab.org is at #VSS2025 with 2 talks and a poster!

First up is PhD Candidate Byron A. Johnson:

Fri, 4:30pm, Talk Room 1: Differential Effects of Peripheral and Central Vision Loss on Scene Perception and Eye Movement Patterns

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Example stimulus from Byron's image dataset: an unobscured version (left) depicting a man on a bike approaching a woman trying to cross the bike lane; a simulation of peripheral vision loss (center), where the woman is clearly visible but the man on the bike is obscured; and a simulation of central vision loss (right), where the man on the bike is apparent but the woman is obscured Byron Johnson headshot
May 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Team Shellphish Dives Deep into Cybersecurity
The hacking team competes for a $4 million prize, but their real mission is pushing the limits of AI and autonomous cybersecurity.
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May 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Congratulations to computer science professor Christopher Kruegel and electrical and computer engineering professor B.S. Manjunath for receiving Outstanding Graduate Mentor Awards for the 2024-’25 academic year! 👏

Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/two-thr...
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May 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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We were interviewed for IEEE spectrum about reasoning models!

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Is AI's Race for Bigger Models Over? Explore the Shift Towards Human-Like Reasoning in AI Development
Since OpenAI's ChatGPT launch, AI firms raced to build massive models, but scaling may have hit a wall with GPT-4.5's lackluster performance. Now, focus shifts to human-like reasoning, using technique...
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May 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Congratulations to computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu for receiving a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to pioneer a paradigm shift in quantum computer engineering.👏
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April 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A (Very) Large Slice of Pi
The world’s biggest assembly of Raspberry Pi computers comes to UCSB.
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April 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Did you know that UCSB is home to the largest Raspberry Pi?🥧
Last year, software giant Oracle donated a cluster of 1,050 Raspberry Pi 3iPB+ computers, the largest such assemblage ever built, to computer science professors Chandra Krintz and Rich Wolski.
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April 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Congrats to UCSB Computer Science Professor Chris Kruegel!
Chris Kruegel Receives Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award | UCSB Computer Science
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April 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Not usually one to post personal pics, but let’s take a break from doomscrolling, yeah?

Some joyful moments from the Plous Award Ceremony: Honored to give the lecture, receive the framed award & celebrate with the people who made it all possible!

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Michael Beyeler smiles while receiving the framed Plous Award at UC Santa Barbara. College of Letters & Science's Dean Shelly Gable presents the award in front of a slide thanking collaborators and funders, with photos of colleagues and logos from NIH and the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies. The audience watches the moment from their seats. The lecture hall of Mosher Alumni House is packed as Prof. Beyeler gets started with his lecture titled "Learning to See Again: Building a Smarter Bionic Eye" Michael Beyeler stands with members of the Bionic Vision Lab in front of a congratulatory banner celebrating his 2024–25 UCSB Plous Award. Everyone is smiling, with some holding drinks, and Michael is holding his young son. The group is gathered outdoors under string lights, with tall eucalyptus trees in the background.
April 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Check out his talk, "Learning to See Again: Building a Smarter Bionic Eye," on Monday, April 14th, 4pm-6pm at Mosher Alumni House.💡

For more info click here: www.campuscalendar.ucsb.edu/event/beyele...
Michael Beyeler | 2024-2025 Plous Award Lecture
"Learning to See Again: Building a Smarter Bionic Eye" What does it mean to see with a bionic eye? While modern visual prosthetics can generate flashes of light, they don’t yet restore natural…
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April 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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UC Santa Barbara Computer Science news magazine, Summer 2024. Cover image shows an AI being at the beach. Highlighted stories include the ACTION Institute; Smart Bionic Eye; Human-AI Integration; and Awards & Honors.
February 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Life update: Excited to announce that I’ll be joining UCSB CS (@ucsb-cs.bsky.social) as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025—where my research dream began!

If you’re interested in PhD research (3+ openings) on multimodal, GenAI, or agents (embodied/digital), apply to UCSB CS by Dec 15!
December 5, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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How do visual prosthetics stack up in everyday life? 👁️🧠🧪

Our latest study reveals a significant gap between researcher expectations and the actual usage of bionic eyes by recipients:
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#BionicVision #NeuroTech #Blindness #Accessibility
Aligning Visual Prosthetic Development With Implantee Needs | TVST | ARVO Journals
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November 21, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Hi Bluesky! I’m an Assist Prof at UCSB’s Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social, decoding the geometric signatures of intelligence 🧠✨

We bridge physics, neuro, math & AI to uncover how intelligence emerges + build intelligent models to advance the brain sciences!

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The Geometric Intelligence Lab @ UC Santa Barbara
The mission of the Geometric Intelligence Lab is to reveal the geometric signatures of natural and artificial intelligence.
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December 2, 2024 at 8:17 PM