Jul 14, 2016
Academia Sinica Elects (Partial) Retiree Fan Chung Graham
Professor Fan Chung Graham retired this month from her dual appointments in Computer Science and Engineering and Mathematics, also relinquishing her endowed chair as the Paul Erdős Professor in Combinatorics. But that's not the end of the story. Later this summer she will assume a part-time...Read More
Jul 7, 2016
UC San Diego Hires Top Robotics Expert to Lead Contextual Robotics Institute
Henrik Christensen, one of the most influential robotics researchers in the world, is joining the University of California San Diego. He will direct the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute and serve as a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Jacobs School of...Read More
Jul 7, 2016
Faculty Startup Whova Wins Award for Global Growth
The conference networking app Whova, developed as a startup by CSE Prof. Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou, has received a $10,000 prize to pursue Whova's potential in international markets. The MetroConnect Prize is a program of the World Trade Center San Diego to help local companies accelerate their global...Read More
Jul 6, 2016
Nearly 5,000 International Students Are 20% of UC San Diego Undergrads
Just days after a research group ranked UC San Diego as #4 nationally in terms of the percentage of international undergraduates majoring in computer science, another ranking looks at the overall influence of international students on U.S. campuses. U.S. News and World Report surveyed 1,800...Read More
Jul 5, 2016
CSE Professor Reaches Finals of Inaugural Online Teaching Prize
Professor Ravi Ramamoorthi cited for pioneering work on computer graphics education One of the largest online course platforms, edX, announced the finalists for its inaugural edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning. The 11 finalists for the first edX Prize in 2016...Read More
Jul 3, 2016
Bioinformatics Professor Elected to European Academy
CSE Prof. Pavel Pevzner is one of only eight new members elected to the Informatics section of the Academia Europaea, Europe's equivalent to the combined U.S. National Academies. The Academia Europaea elected 172 new members from four major areas, including humanities, social and related sciences,...Read More
Jun 30, 2016
UC San Diego Is #1 in Percentage of Female Students in STEM Majors
In a study of the 100 largest universities in the nation, UC San Diego came out on top as the campus with the highest percentage of female students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Based on statistics for 2013, BestColleges.com found that 33 percent of female...Read More
Jun 29, 2016
Alumnus Wins Prestigious Computer Architecture Award
CSE alumnus Tim Sherwood (Ph.D. '03) is the recipient of a prestigious award honoring mid-career computer architects. Sherwood is the 2016 recipient of the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award, named for the computing pioneer credited with proposing microprogramming in 1951, long before it was adopted...Read More
Jun 27, 2016
Machine Learning Method Differentiates Healthy Male, Female Microbiomes
The week-long International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) ended June 24, and the last day included the 2016 ICML Workshop on Computational Biology. CSE professors Larry Smarr and Rob Knight as well as Qualcomm Institute data scientist Mehrdad Yazdani were represented in a poster...Read More
Jun 27, 2016
Computer Science at UC San Diego #4 in Ranking
According to a ranking of U.S. computer science undergraduate programs serving international students, UC San Diego ranks #4 nationwide. The website College Values Online used data published separately by the Institute of Education Studies and Payscale.com to factor into the ranking, and the...Read More