Core Faculty

Rafail Ostrovsky

Rafail Ostrovsky

Feb 21, 2018

Rafail Ostrovsky holds the Norman E. Friedman Chair in Knowledge Sciences at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. He is a distinguished professor of computer science and mathematics at UCLA. He is a Fellow of multiple organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR); and a foreign member of Academia Europaea, with over 350 refereed publications and 15 issued USPTO patents. He served as chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing from 2015 to 2018 and served as a Chair of the IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 2011 Program Committee (PC). He also served on over 40 other international conference PCs and is currently serving on the editorial boards of the Journal of ACM, Algorithmica Journal, and Journal of Cryptology. He is the recipient of multiple awards and honors, including the 1993 Henry Taub Prize; the 2017 IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award; the 2018 RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics (also known as RSA Prize); and the 2022 W. Wallace McDowell Award, the highest award given by the IEEE Computer Society.

Songwu Lu

Songwu Lu

Feb 20, 2018

I am a Professor in Computer Science Department at University of California, Los Angeles. I am leading Wireless Networking Group (WiNG) at UCLA. My research interests include wireless networking, mobile systems, cloud computing and wireless and Internet security. Prior to UCLA, I graduated with a Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999.

Jason (Jingsheng) Cong

Jason (Jingsheng) Cong

Feb 15, 2018

Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence
Director, Center for Customizable Domain-Specific Computing
Director, VLSI Architecture, Synthesis, and Technology (VAST) Laboratory (former VLSI CAD Laboratory)

JASON CONG received his B.S. degree in computer science from Peking University in 1985, his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence in the UCLA Computer Science Department (with joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), the Director of Center for Domain-Specific Computing (funded by NSF Expeditions in Computing Award), and the director of VLSI Architecture, Synthesis, and Technology (VAST) Laboratory. He served as the chair of the UCLA Computer Science Department from 2005 to 2008. He was elected to an IEEE Fellow in 2000, an ACM Fellow in 2008, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020.

Kai-Wei Chang

Kai-Wei Chang

Feb 15, 2018

I am an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. My research goal is to build intelligence systems that solve real-world problems by automatically acquiring knowledge. This challenging goal involves two fundamental components: A machine learning component that can efficiently make coherent decisions for problems with complex structures, and a natural language understanding component that enables the system to extract knowledge from unstructured text. I have been published broadly in machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and data mining.