Apr 10, 2015
CSE Faculty Affiliate Honored with Vilcek Prize
CSE faculty-affiliate Rob Knight is a newcomer to UC San Diego, but now he is also being honored as a (relative) newcomer to the United States. The Vilcek Foundation has named Knight the winner of a Creative Promise Prize in Biomedical Science for his "groundbreaking research on microbial...Read More
Apr 8, 2015
CSE Alumni Brief Students on Profits, Pe15rils in Tech Startups
Lindsey Fowler (BS ’05), president of the CSE Alumni Advisory Board, moderated an April 2 panel of six alumni experts and Jay Kunin, executive director of the Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship at UC San Diego. The alumni included Taner Halicioglu (BS ’96), Jennifer Arguello (BS ’00), Chris...Read More
Apr 8, 2015
Alvarado Receives Engagement Excellence Award
CSE Prof. Christine Alvarado will be honored in late May at the Summit on Women and IT organized by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). The summit will take place in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where Alvarado and three former colleagues at Harvey Mudd College...Read More
Apr 2, 2015
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to CSE Students
Three current CSE students are among the 2,000 nationwide to be offered 2015 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Graduate students Rachel Marty and Alexandria Shearer and graduating senior Max Shen were selected from among roughly 16,500 applicants this year....Read More
Apr 1, 2015
Society Honors Computer Scientist and Mathematician Fan Chung Graham
CSE Prof. Fan Chung Graham and 30 others worldwide have been named as the Class of 2015 Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She was cited for her contributions to “combinatorics, graph theory and their applications,” and those applications have included Internet...Read More
Apr 1, 2015
Disaggregating Data Centers
CSE Prof. George Porter is back from the big annual Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) and expo, which took place in Los Angeles this year. The associate director of UC San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS) and two colleagues from the ECE department – Shaya Fainman and George Papen – were on...Read More
Mar 30, 2015
New Opportunities for CSE Students, Faculty in Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space
The Qualcomm Institute is setting up a new space where companies can apply to lease offices or labs on the second floor of Atkinson Hall, across from the CSE building. The institute announced the first seven companies that have been approved to be the first tenants of the facility, with more in the...Read More
Mar 21, 2015
Cyber Privacy App Gets Boost from CSE Alumnus, Research Scientist Now Teaching at Carnegie Mellon
CSE got a plug from one of its alumni and former research scientist in an article about how most apps don't care about privacy. CSE alumnus Yuvraj Agarwal (Ph.D. '09) left UC San Diego in 2013 to be an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded that...Read More
Mar 19, 2015
Bioinformatics Experiment Holds Promise for Industrial Production of Algae Biofuels
CSE Prof. Vineet Bafna was on the roster of experts who spoke at the Green Revolution 2.0 symposium March 12-13 in the Qualcomm Institute, organized by the California Center for Algal Biology and the Center for Food and Fuel for the 21st Century. The bioinformatics expert addressed the “Ecology of...Read More
Mar 18, 2015
March 30 Application Deadline for Gordon Engineering Leadership Scholars
CSE undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply for the Gordon Scholars Program. Organized by the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center, the program expects to select 20 students for the 2015-2016 program, half undergrads, half grad students. Applications for the prestigious...Read More