Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences at UC Irvine

09/03/2026

Yesterday, we celebrated ICS staff at the 2026 Staff Retreat. Thank you to all ICS staff for all you do throughout the year! Special thanks to the ICS Wellness Committee for all the work to organize the annual event! 🙌💙💛

Image description: Group of ICS staff smiling and many wearing UCI ICS t-shirts.

09/01/2026

Congratulations to Assistant Professors Alfred Chen and Habiba Farrukh and CS PhD Student Mutahar Ali for attending the VehicleSec 2026 Symposium and representing UC Irvine School of Information and Computer Sciences!

The VehicleSec Symposium brings together university researchers, industry professionals, and government representatives to advance security and privacy across vehicles, autonomous systems, and related fundamental infrastructure.

Learn more about VehicleSec 2026 Symposium: https://www.usenix.org/conference/vehiclesec26

08/27/2026

Congratulations to Chen Li for leading NSF BRIDGE, a new data infrastructure award to help scientific communities build domain-specific platforms for collaborative data science and AI.

Researchers at University of California, Irvine, UCLA, and University of Michigan have received nearly $9 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a new data infrastructure capability that will help scientific communities across the nation use advanced data science and artificial intelligence tools.

Learn more:
https://news.uci.edu/2026/08/27/new-data-infrastructure-award-to-help-scientific-communities-build-domain-specific-platforms-for-collaborative-data-science-and-ai/

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Ardalan Amiri Sani Kristin Turney Rui Chen Wei Wang Steve Parker Naomi Sugie

UC Irvine’s Chen Li to help lead NSF-funded national effort

08/26/2026

Celebrating National Dog Day with our ICS Dogs! Meet Tobi!

Image Description: In text: "National Dog Day" with an image of Tobi, a fluffy brown dog, wearing a UCI ICS Bandana.

08/25/2026

Congratulations to ICS alumna Melissa E. Patterson ’03 and all Lauds & Laurels Awardees! 👏💙💛

08/20/2026

Insightful perspectives on AI and kids from Gillian Hayes, UC Irvine Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, and Mimi Ito, UC Irvine Connected Learning Lab Director on CBS News.

Watch here:

Gillian Hayes, UC Irvine Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, and Mimi Ito, UC Irvine Connected Learning Lab Director, talk about why parents should lean into kids using AI.

08/19/2026

Big ideas need the right support. 💡

Opennote—a note-taking app powered by AI that helps students better understand and retain what they learn—started in a UC Irvine student apartment. Founders and UC Irvine computer science majors Abhi Arya and Rishi Srihar turned to the ANTrepreneur Center for mentorship, workspace and feedback as they refined their product and business.

Today, Opennote has raised more than $4 million in funding and earned a spot in Y Combinator, the startup accelerator behind companies like Airbnb, Stripe and Reddit. It's another example of how UC Irvine helps students turn innovative ideas-like an app that analyzes students' notes, generates personalized explanations, creates visual study materials and produces narrated learning content-into real-world impact.

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences at UC Irvine
ANTrepreneur Center

Learn more: https://news.uci.edu/2026/07/28/powered-by-uc-irvine-backed-by-y-combinator/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

📽️ Watch the students tell their story in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls9cTTNCghE

Image description: Opennote co-founders, from left, Abhi Arya, Rishi Srihari and Vedant Vyas sitting on a couch in a modern room with a lattice wall and framed artwork.

08/17/2026

08/13/2026

As we close this year's ICS Summer Academy, we want to thank all our high school students that made this experience unforgettable! This year, ICS Summer Academy offered a range of 2-week courses along with a 4-week Intelligent Robotics course. These courses aim to open pathways for students both academically and socially with interactive and challenging coursework curated by ICS Faculty. Congratulations to all students for completing this milestone! 💻🐜

Read more about this year's ICS Summer Academy : https://ics.uci.edu/2026/08/12/ics-summer-academy-continues-to-expand-with-new-courses-on-intelligent-robotics-and-game-design/

Image Description:
Image 1: Group of ICS Summer Academy Students looking at their robotics project.
Image 2: Robot made by ICS Summer Academy students.
Image 3: Video of small robot with wheels moving through a maze detecting walls/obstacles.
Image 4: Group of ICS Summer Academy students, staff, and faculty smiling together.

08/04/2026

We are heavy hearted to share that Julian Feldman, founding chair and professor emeritus in the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), has passed away at the age of 95. Feldman made an indelible mark ICS and on the UC Irvine campus as one of the 25 founding faculty. Our thoughts with his family and loved ones. 💙💛

Learn more: https://ics.uci.edu/2026/08/04/in-memoriam-julian-feldman-founding-faculty-member-of-uc-irvine-ics/