Nov 26, 2017
CSE Professor Elected IEEE Fellow in Class of 2018
CSE Professor Tajana Rosing has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She is one of five Jacobs School of Engineering faculty members elevated to be part of the IEEE Fellows class of 2018. (Others include ECE’s Massimo Franceschetti and David Whelan...Read More
Nov 21, 2017
Neural Nets on the (Fashion) Runway
Researchers from the University of California San Diego and Adobe Research have demonstrated how artificial intelligence and neural networking could one day go beyond making recommendations about what fashion to buy, to helping retailers and apparel makers design bespoke clothing for consumers...Read More
Nov 17, 2017
CSE Researchers Help Scripps Scientists Document and Model Coral Reefs for 100 Island Challenge
In a study published recently in the journal Coral Reefs, scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography created and analyzed detailed photomosaics of the coral reef at Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Led by Scripps coral-reef ecology Ph.D. student Clinton Edwards, the team canvassed more...Read More
Nov 16, 2017
Cybersecurity Expert Accepts Test-of-Time Award for Introducing Return-Oriented Programming
At the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2017) in early November, University of California San Diego professor Hovav Shacham was recognized for a paper he presented 10 years earlier that introduced the field of “return-oriented programming.” CSE professor Hovav...Read More
Nov 15, 2017
Internet Society Honors CAIDA Director with Prestigious Service Award
CSE faculty-affiliate and alumna Kimberly (KC) Claffy (M.S. ‘91, Ph.D. ‘94) is the 2017 recipient of the prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. The Internet Society – a global non-profit dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet – called Claffy a “...Read More
Nov 15, 2017
Former CSE Student Gets Funding for High-Flying Startup from Hollywood and the Pentagon
A small San Diego-based startup launched by a former student in CSE to reduce the threat of accidents due to civilian drones flying dangerously is getting some traction from an unusual place: Hollywood. The company is SkySafe, and the Hollywood star is Ashton Kutcher. Exchange on Twitter between...Read More
Nov 14, 2017
Finding a Faster, More Accurate Way to Identify Molecular Structures of Natural Products
Roughly 70 percent of drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are based on natural products such as plants and microorganisms in the soil or in the ocean. Now, four researchers from the Computer Science and Engineering department are part of an interdisciplinary team from UC San...Read More
Nov 13, 2017
CSE Alumna Accepts Major Award in Electronic Design Automation
CSE alumna Ayse Coskun (Ph.D. '09) is back in Southern California on Monday, November 13 accepting an award from the Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA). The 2017 IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award will be given to Coskun during the opening session in Irvine of the 36th...Read More
Nov 13, 2017
Fruit Fly Brains Inform Search Engines of the Future
Every day, websites you visit and smartphone apps that you use are crunching huge sets of data to find things that resemble each other: products that are similar to your past purchases; songs that are similar to tunes you've liked; faces that are similar to people you've identified in photos. All...Read More
Nov 13, 2017
Computer Scientist and Oceanographer Realize Long-Time Dream for Undersea Exploration
UW's John Delaney and CSE's Larry Smarr celebrate delivery of remote-controlled HD video live feed to large display in Qualcomm Institute tiled display system.CSE professor Larry Smarr began talking with University of Washington oceanographer John Delaney in 2004 about the possibility of...Read More