Feb 5, 2017
Diversity Award to Honor CSE Teaching Professor
On Wednesday, March 1, UC San Diego will hand out its 2016 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Diversity Awards at a ceremony in the Price Center West Ballroom. In the category of "university-wide individual recipients", one faculty member from the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department...Read More
Feb 2, 2017
Ph.D. Student Awarded 2017 Adobe Research Fellowship
University of California San Diego doctoral student C. Ailie Fraser has been awarded a 2017 Adobe Research Fellowship in only the second year of the company’s fellowship program. The third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is a researcher in the Design Lab at UC San Diego...Read More
Feb 2, 2017
Computer Science Student Honored with Microsoft Ph.D. Fellowship
Each year the research division of Microsoft awards Ph.D. fellowships to a handful of particularly deserving graduate students, and the competition is intense. Today Microsoft tapped University of California San Diego student Mengting Wan to receive the two-year fellowship that will cover all her...Read More
Feb 1, 2017
CSE Organizes in Response to Immigration Ban
An informal group of faculty and students from the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department will hold a second meeting on Thursday, February 9 in CSE Room 1202 from 3pm to 5pm, with CSE professor and chair Dean Tullsen in attendance. The meeting follows the first emergency meeting held on...Read More
Jan 30, 2017
'Mathematician and Computer Scientist Extraordinaire'
That's what the UC San Diego Guardian student newspaper called Computer Science and Engineering assistant teaching professor Mia Minnes in a profile and interview with Timothy Deng, published on January 30. Born in Israel, Minnes moved at age 7 with her familty to Vancouver, and went on to get...Read More
Jan 28, 2017
New York Times Echoes UC San Diego View of What's Needed for Leadership in Robotics
A top technology columnist for the New York Times, Farhad Manjoo, this week published a manifesto about America's declining position as a world leader in robotics. In doing so, he turned to a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of California San Diego to make the case for why...Read More
Jan 27, 2017
CNS Invites Applications for Second Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship; Feb. 6 Deadline
The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) in UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering is once again looking for an undergraduate student who is interested in networked systems – and also active in supporting the LGBT community. “Our goal is to use this scholarship to further boost diversity and...Read More
Jan 26, 2017
Campus Convenes Data Sciences and Analytics Faculty Forums; Next Set for January 30
On Tuesday, January 24, UC San Diego interim executive vice chancellor Peter Cowhey convened the first of two faculty forums. The goal: to give faculty across campus a say in developing a university-wide Data Science Initiative. The second of the two Data Sciences and Analytics Faculty Forums is...Read More
Jan 25, 2017
New Professor Makes Forbes Short List of Top Scientists Under 30
In her first year as an assistant professor at the University of California San Diego, Melissa Gymrek is already bringing honor to the institution. In its 2017 roster of top-notch young scientists, Forbes magazine included Gymrek among its top 30 researchers in the Science category under age 30....Read More
Jan 24, 2017
CSE Researchers Collaborate with Scripps, QI on Underwater Robot Swarm to Study Ocean Life
Underwater robots developed by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography with the involvement of faculty from the Computer Science and Engineering department as well as Calit2's Qualcomm Institute (QI) are offering scientists an extraordinary new tool to study ocean currents and the...Read More