Aug 9, 2017
Massry Prize Honors Microbiome Research Pioneers
Microbiome researcher Rob Knight, a professor with dual appointments in the Pediatrics as well as Computer Science and Engineering departments at UC San Diego, will receive the 2017 Massry Prize. He'll split the $200,000 honorarium with longtime colleagues and co-recipients of the prize, Jeffrey...Read More
Aug 4, 2017
CSE and Contextual Robotics Team Returns from First-Ever Appearance at RoboCup@Home Competition
Poster for the 2017 RoboCup competitions, which included RoboCup@HomeIt was the first time a team from UC San Diego's Contextual Robotics Institute competed head-on with top robot builders around the world at the international RoboCup@Home competition in Japan. A team of computer scientists from...Read More
Aug 4, 2017
CSE Alumnus Demonstrates Rapid but Realistic 3D Avatar Creation
Alumnus Iman Sadeghi at SIGGRAPHCSE alumnus Iman Sadeghi (M.S., Ph.D. ’08, ’11), who did his dissertation in computer graphics on controlling the appearance of specular microstructures, is now VP of Engineering for a Santa Monica-based startup. That company, Pinscreen, aims to revolutionize digital...Read More
Aug 4, 2017
En route to UC San Diego, Chinese Undergraduate Wins Award at SIGGRAPH 2017 – in Absentia
This fall, an undergraduate alumnus from China’s Tsinghua University will be joining the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department and the computer vision and graphics group of CSE professor Ravi Ramamoorthi. The student, Tiancheng (Kevin) Sun, will also be active in the Center for Visual...Read More
Aug 3, 2017
New Computer Engineering Professor Crosses Fields of Computer Architecture and System Software
She won’t take up her new assistant professorship at the University of California San Diego until January, but Jishen Zhao is the latest hire into the university’s Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department. Currently an assistant professor of computer engineering at the University of...Read More
Aug 2, 2017
Professor Behind Online Computer Graphics Course among Finalists for 2017 edX Prize
For the second year in a row, CSE professor Ravi Ramamoorthi -- who holds the Ronald L. Graham Chair of Computer Science -- is a finalist in a competition for an online education award. The 2017 edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning has whittled down all...Read More
Jul 28, 2017
With Help from UC San Diego Grad Student, Google Estimates $25 Million in Ransomware Payouts
$25,253,505. That is the best estimate to date of how much money was paid by victims of ransomware attacks in the past two years in order to unlock their computer disks and get their data back. As a result, ransomware – malware that encrypts victims’ data and demands a payoff in exchange for the...Read More
Jul 27, 2017
NSF Approves Proposal for Machine Learning Cyberinfrastructure
Effective October 1, 2017, CSE Professor and Calit2 Director Larry Smarr will become Principal Investigator on a new NSF-funded, $1 million community infrastructure in support of machine learning research. Ahead of the launch, HPCwire interviewed Smarr for a preview of the proposed...Read More
Jul 26, 2017
CSE Professor Honored for Cognitive Science Contributions
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) professor Gary Cottrell calls himself "a cognitive scientist collecting a computer science salary", noting that this is “much better than the other way around.” Now, he has been elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, an honor reflecting his "impact...Read More
Jul 25, 2017
CSE Ranks #14 among U.S. Programs in Computer Science and Engineering
The Computer Science and Engineering program at UC San Diego now ranks #14 in the nation, and #40 worldwide, according to an expanded subject-area ranking in the 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), published by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Based on five hard-data metrics, the...Read More