Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences at UC Irvine

10/19/2026

Taking a look back at the 8th annual Industry Showcase, which illuminated career opportunities for our ICS undergraduate and graduate students!

Thank you to Google, SAP, and Pacific Life for the amazing information sessions and to all the ICS industry partners who met with students at the recruitment fair!

Google Life at Google Pacific Life Asahi, Community Innovations Foundation, CoStar, Cotallity, Ingram Micro, Kaygenic, Leidos, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Newegg, PDS Health, RTX, SCORE Mentors, Siemens, Sound Ethics, Uptempo Careers, Ventura Foods, and Viant.

Learn more at: https://ics.uci.edu/2026/10/15/8th-annual-industry-showcase-illuminates-career-opportunities/

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1. Students at 2026 ICS Industry Showcase recruitment fair.
2. Students and industry representatives at the 2026 ICS Industry Showcase recruitment fair.
3. Students listen to ICS Industry Showcase information sessions.
4. Students at 2026 ICS Industry Showcase recruitment fair.
5. Students at 2026 ICS Industry Showcase recruitment fair.
6. Students at 2026 ICS Industry Showcase recruitment fair.
7. Darian Ubogagu, campus program manager, at the Google session of the ICS Industry Showcase.
8. Song Wang, ICS alumnus and software engineer at Google, offers advice for students.
9. Students Zot at the ICS Industry Showcase.

10/13/2026

Four UC Irvine leaders. One trivia competition. Endless bragging rights.

Join us at Brains, Brews & Deans and take on: ⚙️ Engineering 🖥️ Information & Computer Sciences 🔬 Physical Sciences 💡 Innovation

Bring your best trivia team and your Anteater spirit.
📅 Oct. 21
📍 Common Space Brewery
⏰ 6-8:30 p.m.

Will the deans come out on top, or will alumni take the crown? 👑

https://engage.alumni.uci.edu/events/brains-brews-deans-uc-irvine-trivia-night/

10/07/2026

The 8th annual Industry Showcase was a great success! Thank you to all the students and partners that participated!

Video Description: Timelapse of students going up to partner booths to speak with them.

10/06/2026

Congratulations to Pierre Baldi, who will receive the 2027 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)!

More: https://ics.uci.edu/2026/10/05/pierre-baldi-to-receive-2027-ieee-cis-neural-networks-pioneer-award/

10/05/2026

Congratulations to Michael Franz and Richard Taylor for being elected to the inaugural class of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT) Software Engineering Academy!

More: https://ics.uci.edu/2026/10/05/franz-and-taylor-elected-to-inaugural-class-of-acm-sigsoft-software-engineering-academy/

10/05/2026

We'll be cheering on ICS Dean Marios Papaefthymiou!

09/25/2026

"Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are." -- Dolly Parton

Happy Dolly Parton Day! We're so glad you're here as part of the UC Irvine ICS Community and we love seeing you shine! 💙💛🌟

09/23/2026

Thank you to all our incoming students for making our Dean’s Welcome 2026 unforgettable!



Image Description:
1. Dean Marios speaking to crowd of incoming students.
2. Crowd looking at Dean Marios.
3. Dean Marios wearing the ICS blue hoodie.
4. Two ICS Peer Advisors smiling.
5. Wishing tree tag written by an incoming student. In words “have my research be used in 10 years”
6. Wishing tree tag written by an incoming student. In words “Build a business, expand my social circle, gain one million dollars”

09/22/2026

Anteater Involvement Fair is a wrap! Thank you to all our ISC clubs for connecting with all our ICS Anteaters.


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1. AI @ UCI Club photo
2. ACM UCI Club Photo
3. ICS Student Council Club Photo
4. BIT Club Photo
5. Hack at UCI Club Photo
6. QC at UCI Club Photo
7. WiCyS Club Photo
8. WICS Club Photo
9. AI Safety @ UCI Club Photo
10. CTC UCI Anteater Poster

09/17/2026

Congratulations to Roy Fox for receiving the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his research on Modular Shared Robot Learning! 👏💙💛

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Roy Fox, assistant professor of computer science at UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), has received the National