Dec 18, 2017
Strong UC San Diego CSE Presence at Machine Learning Conference
Faculty and students report on research in CSE, ECE, Psychology and Cognitive Science Part of the poster for NIPS 2017 in Long Beach, CAThe 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) took place December 4-9 in Long Beach, CA. NIPS is the largest annual machine learning...Read More
Dec 15, 2017
CSE Alumni and Faculty Cofounders of Tortuga Logic Get Infusion of Capital
Tortuga Logic co-founder Ryan Kastner, also sits on the company's Board of Advisors.A company co-founded by CSE professor Ryan Kastner and two CSE alumni is now positioned for new growth thanks to an infusion of capital from a venture-capital firm. The hardware security company Tortuga Logic just...Read More
Dec 14, 2017
New UC San Diego Chapter Sends LGBT+ Delegates to oSTEM National Conference
Five undergrads, two faculty attend meeting to promote LGBT+ diversity in STEM fields For the first time, a delegation of faculty and students from the University of California San Diego attended the annual Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM) National Conference. The...Read More
Dec 12, 2017
Computer Scientists Develop Simple Tool to Detect Website Data Breach
Computer scientists have built and successfully tested a tool designed to detect when websites are hacked by monitoring the activity of email accounts associated with them. The researchers were surprised to find that almost 1 percent of the websites they tested had suffered a data breach during...Read More
Dec 11, 2017
Three UC San Diego Computer Scientists Elevated to Be ACM Fellows in Class of 2017
Three computer scientists from the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego have been elected Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. Clockwise from top left: CSE professors...Read More
Dec 7, 2017
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Candidate Tackles VLSI Layout Design Automation
CSE Ph.D. candidate Ilgweon Kang is preparing for the final defense of his doctoral dissertation, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 10am in CSE room 3109. His dissertation on "Floorplan Representation, Global Placement and Routability Analysis for VLSI Layout Design Automation" is in...Read More
Dec 7, 2017
CSE Alumna Teaches Undergrads to Teach the Joy of Coding
A group of high school students are huddled over one smart phone, poking at the screen and laughing. But in this class at the Preuss School UCSD they’re not being disruptive —they’re actually testing a game app for smartphones that they programmed themselves. CSE alumna Sarah Guthals (Ph.D. '14)...Read More
Dec 7, 2017
CSE and Pediatrics Professor Makes Semifinals for Women’s Safety XPRIZE
CSE and Pediatrics assistant professor Debashis Sahoo develops computational models for human cancer and uses them to predict important biomarkers and therapeutic targets. But he is also raising hopes in a very different area. CSE and Pediatrics professor Debashis SahooThe UC San Diego professor...Read More
Nov 30, 2017
University of Maryland Computer Scientist Talks Revocations in CNS Lecture Series
The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) closed out its lecture series for calendar 2017 with a talk by University of Maryland computer science professor Dave Levin on Monday, Dec. 4. In his talk titled "Revocation Are Dead, Long Live Revocations", Levin explored the importance of the web's public...Read More
Nov 30, 2017
Final Defense of Dissertation on Statistical Representations of Microbial Systems
With the growth in research on the human microbiome at UC San Diego and its creation of the Center for Microbiome Research in the Jacobs School of Engineering, one of the first CSE Ph.D. graduates of the program gave his final defense of his doctoral dissertation on Nov. 30. Ph.D. candidate Yoshiki...Read More