Mar 16, 2015
Center for Visual Computing Gets Ready to Take a Bow
The Computer Science and Engineering department is home to a new research center on computer vision and graphics, computational imaging and augmented reality, to be announced soon. According to a report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, Sony is the largest founding sponsor of the new UC San Diego...Read More
Mar 13, 2015
CSE Faculty, Students Among Winners for Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program
Five CSE graduate students have received inaugural Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program (FISP) grants from the university. They include Jagannathan Venkatesh, a Ph.D. student working with CSE Prof. Tajana Rosing, and an as-yet-unnamed CSE graduate student who will work with Qualcomm Institute...Read More
Mar 10, 2015
Computer Engineering #13 in Graduate School Ranking
U.S. News & World Report is out with its graduate school rankings for 2016. Although the Jacobs School of Engineering overall ranked #17 out of 195 engineering schools, there was better news in the part of the survey focused on computer engineering (which is split between CSE and Electrical and...Read More
Mar 10, 2015
‘Moving onto Deeper, More Interesting and More Challenging Problems’
Industry, Academic Experts Flock to Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop Approximately 220 researchers from academic, industry and national labs were at UC San Diego in early March for the sixth annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop. The annual event is co-organized by CSE’s Non-Volatile Systems...Read More
Mar 10, 2015
CSE Alumna Receives NSF Funding for Internet Topology Project
CSE Faculty-Affiliate and alumna Kimberly Claffy (MS ‘91, PhD ‘94) is a PI on a new $1.2 million NSF grant to measure and quantify the changing nature of the Internet’s topology and what it means for the Internet’s future in terms of design, operations, scientific study and public policy. “From...Read More
Mar 5, 2015
Why Heat May Spell Trouble for 3D Integrated Circuits
In a recent article about how "3D stacking offers an extension for Moore's Law," Engineering & Technology Magazine suggests that a move to 3D integrated circuits could offer the closest thing to Moore's Law by reducing the average wire length, and therefore energy. But a computer scientist at...Read More
Feb 25, 2015
Counter-Intuitive Technique to Put the Brakes on Liar Buyer Fraud
Mayank Dhiman is now a Powell Fellow in CSE's Security and Cryptography group. But back in 2013, he spent the summer as an undergraduate summer researcher at PayPal, working under CSE alumnus Markus Jakobsson (Ph.D. '97), the company's principal data scientist. Flash forward 18 months, and the two...Read More
Feb 25, 2015
Breakout on Center for Visual Computing at Research Expo 2015
At the 2015 Jacobs School of Engineering ResearchExpo, the breakout session will showcase the latest and soon-to-be-announced Research Centers. While there are CSE faculty involved in other centers, only one such center -- the Center for Visual Computing (CVC) -- will be represented by a senior...Read More
Feb 24, 2015
CSE Chair Comments on First U.S. Chief Data Scientist
When the San Diego Union-Tribune looked for an assessment of incoming White House chief data scientist DJ Patil, the newspaper turned to CSE chair and professor Rajesh Gupta for a comment: "DJ perfectly reflects UCSD's core: young and [on the] leading edge of science." In the article about...Read More
Feb 24, 2015
Recent Faculty Recruit on Importance of Microbiome
The TED Talks website has posted a much-awaited presentation by UC San Diego professor of pediatrics as well as computer science, Rob Knight. Actually, it was recorded at TED 2014 nearly a year ago, when Knight was still a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist at the University of...Read More