Is AI reshaping the internet and human mind simultaneously? 🤔 Join Profs. Arpit Gupta & 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/uc… #UCSB #ComputerScience #AI #AgenticAI #AIinAction

TODAY at 3:30 is our next CS Colloquium with Dr. Tandy Warnow! 🚨 Dr. Warnow will introduce CAMUS, a breakthrough ISMB 2026 method for fast, scalable phylogenetic network estimation. 🧬✨ Read more: cs.ucsb.edu/index.php/happen… #ComputerScience #Bioinformatics #Phylogenetics #STEM

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: cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/annou… #UCSB #ComputerScience #ComputerGraphics #SIGGRAPH

A new study in Neuron, co-first authored by @jacob_granley from the Bionic Vision Lab, with @ETH_en and UMH, is using AI to design smarter, more accurate stimulation for blind patients. cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/annou… @ucsantabarbara #Neurotech #BionicVision #DeepLearning

Congrats to @pconrad 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/a… #UCSB #ComputerScience

A split second separates reacting from colliding! UCSB postdoc @Mars_Schneider earns $94K from Zaleski Discovery Award to build neuromorphic wearables that warn blind travelers in time⚡ Link: cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/award… #UCSB #ComputerScience #AssistiveTech #NeuromorphicComputing

🚨🚨 Off-peak PR! 6 papers at #ICML2026! Here's the lineup 👇 🤖 OpenSage: Self-Programming Agent Generation Engine: The FIRST ADK that allows agents to build agents by themselves without human-defined workflows or topologies. Given a task, OpenSage allows agents to program, assemble, and evolve by themselves. Agents built by OpenSage have appeared at the top of multiple benchmarks at the time of release, including CyberGym, TerminalBench, and SWE-Bench-Pro. Recently, we constructed SageCTF with OpenSage, which outperformed more than 90% of the teams in DECCON CTF Qualification 2026, the most difficult CTF competition in the world. 🔗opensage-agent.ai/ 🧠 rePIRL: Learn PRM with Inverse RL for LLM Reasoning: A new exploration of intermediate rewards: learning process reward models with inverse RL — a principled route to dense, step-level signal that makes LLM reasoning stronger and trains more stable and more efficient. 🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07832 🛡️ BlueCodeAgentA: a blue-teaming agent powered by automated red teaming — turning attack knowledge into defense for safer CodeGen AI. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.18131 🌐 CyberCycle: Scalable Real-World Benchmark for AI Agents' End-to-End Cybersecurity Capabilities. 🔗 icml.cc/virtual/2026/poster/… ⚔️ Position: To Defend Against Cyber Attacks, We Must Teach AI Agents to Hack. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2602.02595 🔁 Position: AgentBeats: Agentifying Agent Assessment for Openness, Standardization, and Reproducibility: let agents evaluate agents. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2606.13608 #ICML2026 #AIAgents #LLMReasoning #AgentSecurity

In June, our ACTION AI Institute held their 3rd annual Review & Knowledge Expo, hosting representatives from all 12 ACTION campuses and partners from NSF, DHS, and IBM, to celebrate a year of breakthroughs on AI cybersecurity, and trustworthy systems. #UCSB #ActionAI #AIResearch

What a showcase! 🎉 On June 5th, @ucsbcs held our Undergrad Research Showcase, recognizing students' amazing work in quantum networks, watermarking, workload architectures, and more! Congrats to all our presenters! 👏 @UCSBengineering #UCSB #ComputerScience #UndergradResearch

Congrats to Teaching Prof. Diba Mirza on being selected for CRA’s 2026 Emerging Leaders Cohort! 🎉 This cohort recognizes rising leaders in computing and connects them with senior leaders. We're proud to share this recognition! 💙💛 #UCSB #ComputerScience #WomenInComputing #CRA

The 2026 UCSB Computer Science Award Ceremony celebrated outstanding achievements in research, teaching, mentorship, leadership, entrepreneurship, and service. The full list of awards and recipients: cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/award… #UCSB #ComputerScience #STEM #Research #StudentSuccess

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 #CS

🚀 Proud moment for UCSB at ic3research.org/ic3-blockcha… at Princeton University! Congratulations to the outstanding UCSB students who represented our community and made their mark: @ucsbcs @UCSBengineering

Big news! 🎉 Asst. Prof. Murphy Niu has been awarded a $2 million DARPA grant as part of a joint team through the HARQ Program. UCSB is helping develop cross-platform error correction protocols for scalable quantum computing and communication. #UCSB #QuantumComputing #DARPA

UCSB AI @ CVPR 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

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 @WenboGuo4, B.S. Manjunath, Murphy Yuezhen Niu, and Ambuj Singh.

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.