Jun 5, 2016
CSE and Design Lab Presence at CHI 2016
The Design Lab at UC San Diego was out in force last month for CHI 2016, the premier human-computer interaction (HCI) annual conference, and Computer Science and Engineering faculty and graduate students were among those on hand in San Jose. CSE faculty attending CHI included Scott Klemmer, Bill...Read More
Jun 3, 2016
CSE Ph.D. Student Accepts Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Johns Hopkins
As more postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. candidates make the rounds of universities in the market for new faculty in computer science, computer engineering or bioinformatics, another CSE soon-to-be-graduate is headed to do research and teach computer science at Johns Hopkins University. Peng (...Read More
Jun 3, 2016
Student Startup Seeks Support via Kickstarter Campaign
A team of CSE students working in a startup is now taking their next step with the launch of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. The startup, Giventure, calls itself "your personal assistant for volunteering”. Co-founded by Computer Science majors Sneha Jayaprakash (pictured at center with some...Read More
Jun 3, 2016
Tau Beta Pi Honors CSE Professor
The UC San Diego chapter of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honors society has selected the winners of its Faculty of the Year awards. For the 2015-16 academic year, members were asked to nominate faculty based not just on their teaching in the classroom, but also on their impact on the overall...Read More
Jun 2, 2016
CSE Students to Showcase Computer Graphics Projects
CSE lecturer Jurgen Schulze, a research scientist in the Qualcomm Institute’s visualization group, is expecting big things when some 120 students from CSE 167, Introduction to Computer Graphics, demonstrate their class projects next week in a two-stage set of demos. Members of the CSE community are...Read More
Jun 2, 2016
CNS Awards Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship
The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) has awarded its first Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship to senior Valeria Gonzalez. The electrical engineering major is already participating in research, and she is the first student to receive the $10,000 scholarship offered by CNS to encourage diversity and...Read More
Jun 2, 2016
CSE Students Pack First-Ever Triton Gaming Expo
Some 325 undergraduates majoring in Computer Science or Computer Engineering were among the more than 1,200 registered attendees at the first-ever Triton Gaming Expo (TGEX). The 2016 event took place May 22 from 11am to 10pm in the Price Center Ballrooms. After CSE, the next largest cohorts were...Read More
May 19, 2016
NSF CAREER Award to Fund Multiplane Data Center Network Research and Education
University of California San Diego computer scientist George Porter is among the latest recipients of Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The funding agency has earmarked nearly $700,000 for a four-year project on the topic, "A Scalable...Read More
May 19, 2016
CSE Alumnus/Postdoc Accepts Faculty Position in North Carolina
Hung-Wei Tseng is a postdoctoral researcher whose CSE bio online notes that he is "looking for a tenure-track faculty job." Well, now he has one. The CSE alumnus (Ph.D. '14) has just accepted a faculty position at North Carolina State University. According to his thesis advisor, CSE Prof. Dean...Read More
May 13, 2016
CSE Faculty Welcome White House National Microbiome Initiative
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in collaboration with public- and private-sector stakeholders, rolled out a National Microbiome Initiative (NMI) on May 13. Its goal: to foster the integrated study of microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that live on and in...Read More