Mar 24, 2017
Industrial Robotics Growth in China and Asia Far Outpace U.S. Growth Rate
CSE professor Henrik Christensen, director of the Contextual Robotics Institute at UC San Diego, testified March 16 in front of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a bipartisan group that monitors and investigates the national security implications of the bilateral trade and...Read More
Mar 23, 2017
Cyber-Archaeology Virtual Reality Hackathon
Organized by the student-run Virtual Reality Club at UC San Diego with support from the Qualcomm Institute-based Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability (CCAS), the Cyber-Archaeology VR hackathon invites participation by graduate and undergraduate students from CSE and other departments on...Read More
Mar 21, 2017
Using Batteries to Cut Utility Costs
CNS postdoctoral researcher Alper Sinan Akyurek developed an algorithm for controlling batteries that can decrease the utility cost of an actual building by up to 50 percent compared to a building powered without the use of batteries. Alper Sinan Akyurek is a postdoc in CNS and the Systems Energy...Read More
Mar 19, 2017
CSE Alumni, Students Launch Kickstarter Campaign for Smart Mirror
UC San Diego CSE alumnus Noah Martin (B.S. ’16) got his start in hackathons as an undergraduate majoring in computer engineering. Together with three of his fellow students in CSE, Martin shared in the prize for Best iOS Hack for ezTouch, an app to lock and unlock your computer from anywhere, at...Read More
Mar 14, 2017
CSE Researchers Explore Multimodal Technology for Assessing Symptoms of Stroke
CSE research assistant professor Nadir WeibelCSE research assistant professor Nadir Weibel is leading a small, interdisciplinary team that has been awarded a Frontier of Innovation Scholars Program grant to pursue a sensor-based approach to multimodal stroke signature. The so-called Stroke-Kinect...Read More
Mar 11, 2017
Professors Launch CS Theo ry Events Website
CSE Prof. Shachar Lovett and CSE visiting assistant professor Alexander (Sasha) Kulikov, a senior research fellow in the Laboratory of Mathematical Logic of St. Petersburg (a department of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics), have launched a new website for the computer-science theory community....Read More
Mar 9, 2017
CSE Professor, Lecturer Team with UC San Diego Health to Bring 3D Visualization to Abdomenal Surgery
CSE's Larry Smarr talking about the experimental with 3D model of affected colon in background. Photo by Kyle Dykes, UC San Diego HealthTurning a fairly routine procedure into a bold experiment, CSE Professor Larry Smarr, director of Calit2, recently underwent a segmental colon resection (removing...Read More
Mar 7, 2017
Center for Networked Systems Adds New Faculty Members
CSE Assistant Professor Deian StefanThe Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California San Diego now has 22 faculty members following the addition of two new professors to its ranks. Both newcomers – Deian Stefan and Aaron Schulman – joined the Computer Science and Engineering...Read More
Mar 2, 2017
Python Programming and its Application to Data Science
The first workshop in the Spring 2017 SWEET Series will take place on April 19 from 5-6pm in the Qualcomm Conference Room in Jacobs Hall. It will focus on Python programming and its application to data science.The workshops are hosted by the IDEA Engineering Student Center. SWEET stands for...Read More
Mar 2, 2017
SDSC Announces Annual Supercomputing and Data Science Workshop
Week-long Summer Institute workshop is July 31-August 4, 2017 SDSC Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay AltintasCSE lecturer Ilkay Altintas, whose primary job is Chief Data Science Officer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), is among the leading faculty scheduled to teach this summer during...Read More