Oct 12, 2017
CSE Professor Receives National High-Risk, High-Reward Research Award
A UC San Diego professor who splits her time between the Computer Science and Engineering department and the School of Medicine has been selected to receive an award from the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) 2017 High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program. NIH created the awards for "...Read More
Oct 11, 2017
UC San Diego Cybersecurity Expert Stefan Savage Receives Prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' Award
Stefan Savage, a renowned cybersecurity expert and professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego, has been awarded a fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation. Perhaps better known as the MacArthur “genius” award, the prestigious, no-strings- attached, five-year fellowship...Read More
Oct 11, 2017
UC San Diego, edX Launch First Adaptive Online Course to Teach Bioinformatics
Three years ago, UC San Diego computer science professor Pavel Pevzner predicted that today’s massive open online courses (MOOCs) would eventually give way to adaptive Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). In doing so, they could also replace traditional classroom lectures to a large extent – by...Read More
Oct 1, 2017
CSE Hosts Fall 2017 Design@Large Lecture Series on Human-Centered Computational Tools
This week the Design Lab at UC San Diego will launch the latest edition of its Design@Large lecture series. For the Fall 2017 quarter, the series is organized by computer scientist and Cognitive Science professor Philip Guo, with all talks to take place in the CSE auditorium (Room 1202) every...Read More
Sep 28, 2017
CSE Faculty Front and Center in New UC San Diego-IBM Artificial Intelligence Center
IBM and the University of California San Diego have announced a multi-year project to enhance quality of life and independence for aging populations through the new Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Living Center (AIHL), located on the campus of UC San Diego. The groundbreaking center will bring...Read More
Sep 28, 2017
Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship Celebrates Diversity in Computer Science
Sothyrak (Tee) Srey’s voice fills with excitement when he recalls the day he learned he had been awarded the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship. “I woke up, saw the email, and couldn’t believe it,” he says. “I immediately called my mom. It was so exciting. I never thought I would be the one to earn...Read More
Sep 26, 2017
Computer Scientists Present Findings on Computer Vision and Object Detection at IROS 2017
Better methods for computer vision and object detection are among the innovations presented by CSE and other robotics researchers from UC San Diego at the 2017 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). The five-day conference ends September 28 in Vancouver, British Columbia...Read More
Sep 19, 2017
CSE Recruits 15 Lecturers to Help Teach Undergraduates in 2017-2018
According to CSE assistant teaching professor Mia Minnes, who chairs the department's recruiting committee for lecturers this year, CSE has lined up a stellar group of 15 lecturers to assume some of the undergraduate teaching duties not already covered by tenure-track and teaching professors as...Read More
Sep 15, 2017
Ph.D. Candidate to Defend Dissertation on Computational Methods to Study Genomic Structure and Structural Variation
CSE Ph.D. candidate Viraj Deshpande will stage the final defense of his doctoral dissertation on September 20 at 10am in room 1202 of the CSE building. The topic of his thesis: "Computational Methods to Study Genomic Structure and Structural Variation." Ph.D. candidate Viraj DeshpandeDeshpande is...Read More
Sep 12, 2017
Newspaper Features UC Responses to Demand for Data Science Education
The San Francisco Chronicle published a feature article on September 5 on how “universities rush to add data science majors as demand explodes.” In the article, writer Isha Salian notes that “UC San Diego is starting a data science undergraduate major and minor this fall.” She also reports that “UC...Read More