Feb 28, 2017
UC San Diego Launches Online Courses with edX to Advance Careers in Data Science
The University of California San Diego is launching an online series of courses in Data Science that will roll out through edX, the nonprofit online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. The four courses will be part of edX’s MicroMasters program, offering a credential for career...Read More
Feb 25, 2017
Deadline Looms to Register for CSE Team at Triton 5K Race
Some 4,000 people are expected to attend the 21st annual Triton 5K race, and CSE -- which fielded the largest team at the 2016 race -- is hoping to register as many as 250 people for Team Race Condition (up from roughly 200 last year). The Triton 5K is scheduled for April 9, 2017, and it will be...Read More
Feb 21, 2017
Shedding Light on Cancer Diversity and Resistance
A paradigm-changing study by cancer researchers and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and other institutions found that short fragments of circular DNA that encode cancer genes are far more common in cancer cells than previously believed. Published online in the journal...Read More
Feb 21, 2017
CSE Professor and Five Other UC San Diego Faculty Receive 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships
Professor Daniel M. Kane has dual appointments in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Mathematics departments, and he is one of a select few UC San Diego faculty to be honored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. To further his research on two main topics – the analysis of low-degree...Read More
Feb 20, 2017
Recent Faculty Arrival Starts Teaching This Spring
CSE Assistant Professor Ndapa Nakashole joined the UC San Diego faculty in January, and she will start teaching in the spring quarter with a research-oriented graduate course on Advanced Statistical Natural Language Processing (CSE 291). The course website is now online. "A background in natural...Read More
Feb 19, 2017
Professor Inducted as Fellow at AAAS Annual Meeting
CSE Professor and Calit2 Director Larry Smarr was in Boston Feb. 18 for his induction to be a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is one of five faculty of the University of California San Diego elected in 2016 and inducted during the annual meeting of the...Read More
Feb 13, 2017
CSE Professor to Speak at Jacobs School Research Expo
Mark your calendars for Thursday, April 20. That's when the Jacobs School of Engineering will host Research Expo 2017. This year's event will include four faculty talks representing hot-button research topics, centers and labs. Computer Science and Engineering associate professor Laurel Riek will...Read More
Feb 12, 2017
CSE Alumnus Honored for Work on Object-Oriented Programming Languages
A University of California San Diego alumnus in Computer Science, Ross Tate (Ph.D. ’12), is one of two professors selected to receive the Dahl-Nygaard Prizes for 2017. The prizes are awarded annually by the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO). UC San Diego CSE alumnus...Read More
Feb 9, 2017
CSE Professor Receives Major Award from Computational Biology Society
The International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) has announced the winners of its top four awards for 2017, and leading the list is UC San Diego computer-science professor Pavel Pevzner. The Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award honors Pevzner's almost 30 years in the field of...Read More
Feb 7, 2017
Deadline for Students to Apply for Summer 2017 REU Program in Engineers for Exploration
University students have barely one week left to apply for a research internship at the University of California San Diego for summer 2017 to work on technologies that can be used by explorers in the lab or on field expeditions. Twelve students from the U.S., Brazil and China visit the San Diego...Read More