Jul 19, 2017
Center for Visual Computing Has Major Presence at Upcoming Computer Vision Conference
Computer vision researchers from the University of California San Diego will have a major presence at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017), with 20 papers on the agenda featuring at least one co-author from UC San Diego. Considered the premier forum for...Read More
Jul 18, 2017
CSE Professor Separates AI Fact from Fiction at San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con 2017 gets underway on Thursday, July 20, and while a lot of students and some faculty from CSE will likely be attending the pop-culture event, one CSE professor will have the opportunity to talk about her own field of academic work along with some big names from the world of...Read More
Jul 17, 2017
At Intersection of Visual Computing and Robotics, New Professor Joins UC San Diego Faculty
Effective July 1, Dr. Hao Su joined the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of California San Diego. At a macro level, he explores fundamental problems in broad disciplines related to artificial intelligence, including machine...Read More
Jul 14, 2017
High School Students Get a Taste of Studying Computer Science at UC San Diego
Many of the students studying and living on campus this month look decidedly younger than usual for the University of California San Diego, primarily because they are younger. One group of 205 high school students moved into dorms this week to attend the 2017 California State Summer School for...Read More
Jul 12, 2017
Opportunity for UC San Diego Researchers to Collaborate with Small Business to Win Federal Funding
In September, San Diego will be one of the stops for a national outreach effort undertaken by federal agencies to make small businesses more aware of the funding opportunities for which they may be eligible. The industry group BIOCOM and UC San Diego Office of Innovation and Commercialization will...Read More
Jul 7, 2017
CSE Graduate Students in Center for Networked Systems End Academic Year with Ph.D. Degrees and New Jobs
As of early July, 15 Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Ph.D. candidates affiliated with the Center for Networked Systems (CNS) have graduated or are expected to graduate in the academic year from October 2016 through September 2017. Unlike last year, when half the Ph.D. graduates went to work...Read More
Jul 5, 2017
Research Center Awards Travel Grants to Two Graduate Students in Computer Science
For female students in particular, attending the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing can be a critical launching pad for careers in computer science in either academia or private industry. For that reason, UC San Diego's Center for Networked Systems (CNS) provides funding each...Read More
Jun 29, 2017
High-Tech Baby Monitor Company Cofounded by Alumnus Raises $4MN
Cocoon Cam, a computer-vision-based baby monitor company co-founded by CSE alumnus Pavan Kumar (M.S. Computer Science '15), recently announced that it closed a $4 million Series A funding round. Cocoon Cam makes baby monitors that rely on computer vision technologies to track breathing and other...Read More
Jun 28, 2017
CSE Ph.D. Candidate Accepts Tenure-Track Faculty Position at University of Illinois
When he graduated from China’s Nanjing University, Tianyin Xu was turned down by 24 graduate schools in the United States. The following year he applied and was accepted into the Ph.D. program at the University of California San Diego. Now, almost six years later, Xu is finishing his Ph.D. this...Read More
Jun 26, 2017
Ph.D. Candidate Defends Dissertation on Precise Type Checking for JavaScript
CSE Ph.D. candidate Panagiotis Vekris (M.S. '14) has spent nearly six years doing graduate research on programming languages, program analysis, as well as verification and type systems. Now he is preparing for the final defense of his dissertation on "Precise Type Checking for JavaScript." It's...Read More