News

May 5, 2026

Kyle Lee's paper on Stochastic Attention is accepted to International Conference on Machine Learning 2026 

April 30, 2026

Kerem Camsari was selected as a 2026–2027 Public Voices Fellow at UC Santa Barbara, a year-long fellowship in partnership with The OpEd Project focused on public scholarship and shaping national conversations.

March 25, 2026

We are pleased to welcome Christian Pratt, Ph.D., to UCSB as a postdoctoral researcher!

February 24, 2026

Sajeeb Mahmudul Hassan, a PhD candidate in the OPUS Lab has been awarded a PhD Dissertation Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding research contributions in probabilistic computing.

 

January 15, 2026

Congratulations to Abdelrahman S. Abdelrahman, the first author, on this outstanding result and the publication! 

October 16, 2025

We are thrilled to share that “Pushing the boundary of quantum advantage in hard combinatorial optimization with probabilistic computers” is now out in Nature Communications 

October 7, 2025

Kemal’s paper “DAC-Free p-bits: Asynchronous Self-Coloring and On-Chip Annealing” will appear in IEDM 2025!

September 25, 2025

We are thrilled to welcome Jared to OPUS!

July 31, 2025

We are thrilled to welcome Kriteen Shrestha as a graduate student to OPUS!

July 10, 2025

We are excited to have Jared (Class of '28 UC Santa Barbara) join OPUS Lab!