Jan 23, 2017
UC San Diego Center at NSDI 2017: Innovating in Networked Systems
Researchers affiliated with the Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California San Diego have been selected to present some of their most up-to-date research at the 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2017). CNS co-director George...Read More
Jan 22, 2017
CSE Alumnus Invites Ph.D. Students to Apply for Machine Learning Summer Internships at Amazon
Amazon logoAmazon is making a special effort in its search for Ph.D. students eager to work on real-world data sets motivated by business questions, as well as "exciting and challenging machine learning problems." The central machine-learning team at Amazon, through a CSE alumnus in machine...Read More
Jan 19, 2017
CSE Faculty Affiliate Uses Drones to Gauge Damage from Seismic Aftermath
If the prospect of a mega-earthquake has you quaking — fear not, because UC San Diego engineers are making sure our world will withstand the rumble. And in addition to using the world’s largest outdoor shake table, researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering also turned to drones to capture the...Read More
Jan 13, 2017
Teaching Computers to Recognize Sick Guts: Machine Learning and the Microbiome
A new proof-of-concept study by computer scientists and other researchers at UC San Diego succeeded in training computers to “learn” what a healthy versus an unhealthy gut microbiome looks like based on its genetic makeup. Since this can be done by genetically sequencing fecal samples, the research...Read More
Jan 11, 2017
Award to Graduate Women in Computing at UC San Diego to Help Expand Mentoring
With women making up less than 30 percent of graduate students in computer science at the University of California San Diego, the group known as Graduate Women in Computing (GradWIC) on campus is looking to beef up its academic mentorship program. To that end, GradWIC will receive a $5,000...Read More
Jan 10, 2017
Software System Labels Coral Reef Images in Record Time
CoralNet works 10 to 100 times faster than processing image data by hand Much faster processing of coral-reef images is based on deep learning technology.Computer scientists at UC San Diego have released a new version of a software system that processes images from the world’s coral reefs anywhere...Read More