Computer Science

Xiang Anthony Chen

Xiang Anthony Chen

Oct 8, 2018

Anthony’s research mission is to expand the interaction bandwidth between human and AI, specifically, enabling domain-specific users to comprehend and control AI with an eventual vision of human-AI collaboration. He received his Ph.D. in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2017 and was a recipient of the Hellman Fellowship, NSF CISE CRII Award and the Adobe Ph.D. Fellowship. Anthony’s work has won two best paper awards and two honorable mentioned in top-tier HCI conferences.

Achuta Kadambi

Achuta Kadambi

Aug 15, 2018

Achuta Kadambi (PhD, MIT ‘18) is a tenured Associate Professor at UCLA in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He leads an AI research group that focuses on computer vision and spatial intelligence. He has co-founded two California companies: Akasha Imaging (acquired in 2022, now with Alphabet) and Vayu Robotics (acquired in 2025, now with Nasdaq: SERV).

He is the recipient of early career awards including from NSF (CAREER), DARPA (YFA), ARO (YIP), IEEE (HKN under 35 award), and Forbes (30 under 30). He is an inventor on 40+ issued US patents and has recently co-authored a textbook on computational imaging, published by the MIT Press.

Carlo Zaniolo

Carlo Zaniolo

Feb 26, 2018

Carlo Zaniolo was born in Vicenza, Italy. He received an E.E. Engineer degree at Padua University in 1968, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at UCLA in 1970 and 1976, respectively. After working at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and MCC in Austin Texas, Dr. Zaniolo joined the UCLA CS Department in 1991, and was awarded the N.E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Science. Dr. Zaniolo’s interests include big data and knowledge based systems, non-monotonic and temporal reasoning, internet information systems, answering questions, queries and searches in knowledge bases.