May 24, 2017
Nanopore Technology Makes Leap from DNA Sequencing to Identifying Proteins
In the May issue of PLOS Computational Biology, scientists from UC San Diego and the University of Notre Dame report on a study* that could open up the field for nanopore-based protein identification – and eventually proteomic profiling of large numbers of proteins in complex mixtures of different...Read More
May 23, 2017
CSE Professor Lobbies Congress to Save Research Funding for Grad Students
With a major new project approved but put on hold in light of the Trump Administration's plan to cut back research spending, CSE professor George Porter has taken it upon himself to lobby San Diego representatives on Capitol Hill to limit the damage. As reported in The Triton, an independent,...Read More
May 22, 2017
Researchers Find Computer Code that Volkswagen Used to Cheat Emissions Tests
An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanism that allowed Volkswagen to circumvent U.S. and European emission tests over at least six years before the Environmental Protection Agency put the company on notice in 2015 for violating the Clean Air Act. During a year-long...Read More
May 17, 2017
CSE Alumnus Leverages Machine Learning to Help Companies (and Hometown) Grow
UC San Diego computer science alumnus Matthew Der (Ph.D. '15) was one of the few fresh graduates from the Computer Science and Engineering department who did not opt to work for a West Coast technology giant like Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook or Google (where he did two summer internships during...Read More
May 15, 2017
CSE Department Honored for Efforts to Ensure Academic Integrity
At the campus-wide 7th annual Integrity Awards Ceremony, UC San Diego recognized 11 individual members of the campus community and one entire department: Computer Science and Engineering. The ceremony took place on April 19 to honor contributions to academic, research and professional integrity at...Read More
May 12, 2017
Women in Computer Architecture
CSE students have an opportunity to hear from a guest speaker who can talk about her own experiences in the field of computer architecture. Dr. Srilatha (Bobbie) Manne will be the guest speaker on Tuesday, May 23 from 6-8PM in the Fung Auditorium of the Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall. The final...Read More
May 12, 2017
Alumni Education Startup Seeks to Hire Two CS Undergrads to Mentor Youngsters in Sunday Workshops
The alumni-run startup ThoughtSTEM is looking for some of the best undergraduate students in computer science at UC San Diego. The part-time, paid positions involve mentoring local San Diego students at the coding workshops the company runs on Sundays at UC San Diego. ThoughtSTEM teaches local San...Read More
May 11, 2017
Giving Students a Place to Prep for Tomorrow's Virtual (Reality) Economy
Computer science department opens high-tech teaching lab for undergraduates San Diego, May 11, 2017 — It’s a laboratory that looks like a cross between a classroom and a tech pavilion at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There are virtual-reality headsets everywhere, and large,...Read More
May 11, 2017
Interest in Campus Virtual Reality Club Reaches All-Time High
San Diego, May 11, 2017 — The opening of the Virtual Reality Lab (see main article) in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department, co-developed with the Qualcomm Institute, coincides with phenomenal growth in the number of UC San Diego students signing up for membership in the student-...Read More
May 3, 2017
Undergraduate Data Science at UC Berkeley
As CSE gets ready to offer an undergraduate degree in Data Science, the program invited UC Berkeley professor John DeNero to speak on how the Berkeley campus reacted to his new Foundations of Data Science course (data8.org) -- the fastest growing elective course in UC Berkeley history, with over 1,...Read More