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
Group photo of the team member Ezra, Om, and David, with this faculty sponser. They are wearing navy blue team shirts.
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
🚨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
Capstone flyer reading Digital Intelligence in the Wild: from algorithms to impact. Wednesday, March 11, 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
🏆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
And my desk has an ocean view 💅
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: https://ow.ly/yjVq50Yj6Fj
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
She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.
5 headshots of faculty members, clockwise from top left, Michael Gordon, Yoga Isukapalli, Ziad Matni, Andrew Tell, and Matthew Begley
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.👏
headshot of Tianle Yu
Congratulations to Tianle Yu, a computer science major, for receiving the College of Engineering’s 2025 Tirrell Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research!👏
Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/recogni...
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...
#UCSB #UCSBEngineering #CS
Arpit Gupta headshot
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! 👏
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
www.visionsciences.org/presentation...
👁️🧪 #XR #VirtualReality #Unity3D #VSS2025
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
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
🧠 www.visionsciences.org/presentation...
Yuheng Bu Headshot
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
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
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
www.visionsciences.org/presentation...
Side by side headshots of Christopher Kruegel and B. S. Manjunath
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...
We were interviewed for IEEE spectrum about reasoning models!
spectrum.ieee.org/chain-of-tho...
Murphy Niu headshot
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.👏
Click here to learn more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/very-la...
#UCSB #UCSBEngineering #RaspberryPi
2 faculty and 5 researchers standing in front of raspberry pi computer cluster
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.
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.
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!
@bionicvisionlab.org @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
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...
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.
cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/c...
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!
