UBC Computer Science
@UBC_CS
The department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
This is a great summary of recent work in open-endedness and exploration!! Thanks @richardcsuwandi
We’re training AI on everything that we know, but what about things that we don’t know? At #ICML2025, the EXAIT Workshop sparked a crucial conversation: as AI systems grow more powerful, they're relying less on genuine exploration and more on curated human data. This shortcut…
📢 Check out the accepted ACL 2025 papers from the UBC NLP group! We look forward to presenting them in Vienna! #ACL2025 #NLProc
“In our health care system, there really is a lot of text data that we never really have the time and the power to dig into,” says Dr. Raymond Ng @UBC_CS. “This is where #AI large language modeling is going to help us.” bit.ly/3TIVt6w
The #InfoVis lab organized MUX's July social and held a blind ice cream taste test with four brands of ice cream. The winner based on our taste buds was Matcha Honeycomb Nugget from Elephant Garden Creamery!
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Faculty Incredible Instructor Awards! Patrice Belleville, Anne Condon, Cinda Heeren, Thomas Pasquier, Bruce Shepherd, Vered Shwartz
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards! Jianhao Cao, Rosalyn Carr, Kyle Chin, Finn Hackett, Raymond Liu, Karthik Nishant, Joe Poremba, Pretty Vyas, Yuwen Yin
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Student Community Building Awards for Graduate Students! Sean Bocirnea, Shivam Chandhok, Devyani McLaren, Mayant Mukul, Matt Oddo, Rocco Ruan, Teerpaun Tanprasert
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Awards! Kaiser Chen, Mina Chong, Susan Chung, Leo Foord-Kelcey, Matthew Kang, Ricky Lau, Gary Li, Anna Luo, Thomson Mai, Abigail McPhee, Lucas Qin, Priyanka Sangha, Robert Wang
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Student Community Building Awards for Undergraduate Students! Charlene Chiu, Alisa Dulalia, Emilie Ma, Hedie Mahmoudian, Bilal Suboor, Tara Ubovic, Sarah Wong, Iris Xu, Zingyu Zhou
Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Rajan Family Award in Computer Science, Sandra Radic!
Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Project to Product Award in Computer Science, Cecilia Soroco!
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Maria Klawe Service Award, Cheryl Chen and Cindy Cui!
Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science, Yeojun Han!
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science! Arun Balamurali, Kuter Bora, Leo Foord-Kelcey, Karen Shen
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Award for Academic Excellence in Computer Science! Award recipients: William Zhou, Boqiao Zhang, Karen Shen, Arvin Sahami, Elizabeth Earle, Carolyn Huang, Matthew Smith, Kent Chen
Is humanity close to building digital #superintelligence? Is self-improving #AI safe? Read Sam Altman's take here, and check out Professor Jeff Clune's Darwin Goedel Machine Research. 1) Article: fortune.com/2025/06/19/ope… 2) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954
In a time of #AI wild enthusiasts and deep skeptics, UBC computer scientist Dr. @VeredShwartz puts herself somewhere in the middle. @UBC_CS thetyee.ca/News/2025/06/2…
The Departments of Computer Science and Medicine at #UBCVancouver are recruiting an outstanding researcher to be nominated for the #CERC in AI for Improving Patient Outcomes and Enhancing Health Service Delivery. Apply here before August 1st: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30195
"Jump-started by a $22.5 million gift, UBC’s new AI and Health Network is deploying powerful artificial intelligence tools to drive health system innovation and improve patient care." Read more here: news.ubc.ca/2025/06/delive…
#UBC Assistant Professors and #CAIDA members Peter Yichen Chen and Chao Liu have been featured in the #MIT news for their #robotics research on proprioception. Read more here: news.mit.edu/2025/system-le…
