Apr 13, 2018
Chancellor Khosla Attends 2018 CSE Tutor Reunion
Current and past CSE tutors, CSE faculty, CSE Alumni Advisory Board members, staff and guests attended the 2018 CSE Tutor Reunion at Atkinson Hall on April 13th. UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla also came to the event and provided a Welcome Address. Attendees were able to network, hear about...Read More
Mar 26, 2018
A wearable system to monitor the stomach's activity throughout the day
San Diego, Calif., March 26, 2018 — A team of researchers has developed a wearable, non-invasive system to monitor electrical activity in the stomach over 24 hours — essentially an electrocardiogram but for the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract. Researchers have developed a wearable system to monitor...Read More
Mar 13, 2018
UC San Diego Hosts Its First Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality Hackathon
By Betsy Meeker and Katherine Connor Anish Kannan, a fourth year computer science student at UC San Diego, had no interest in virtual reality (VR) until one fateful hackathon four years ago. “When I was a freshman, I went to a virtual reality hackathon and it pretty much changed my college...Read More
Jan 30, 2018
Students Launch Hackathon for Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality
Welcome to HackXR. The student-run Virtual Reality Club at the University of California San Diego is launching the university’s first-ever hackathon devoted exclusively to software programming for what they call ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) applications. Navigating a VR environment in the Virtual...Read More
Jan 29, 2018
UC San Diego Launches edX Online MicroMasters® in Algorithms and Data Structures
The online courses include Graph Algorithms as well as Graph Algorithms for Genome Sequencing and six more.Eight-course online program helps students master algorithmic programming techniques – and get a job The University of California San Diego is launching an online series of courses designed...Read More
Jan 29, 2018
CSE Alumnus Runs for School Board
UC San Diego computer science alumnus Jee Manghani (B.S. ’96), spent 20 years in commercial software development, including six years at General Atomics, before eventually becoming an entrepreneur and general partner in Soledad Investment, a value-investing partnership. Now he is Chief Executive...Read More
Jan 23, 2018
Making Pipelines and Large Processing Microbial Community Studies Available to Any User, Any Time, Any Place
CSE Ph.D. Candidate José Navas Molina is set to be the first Computer Science student to stage the final defense of his doctoral dissertation in 2018. His advisor, CSE and Pediatrics professor Rob Knight, will chair a faculty committee that includes fellow CSE professors Vineet Bafna, Larry Smarr,...Read More
Jan 22, 2018
New Algorithm Identifies Ten Times More Naturally Occurring Antibiotics than All Previous Studies
Drug resistance is a major concern worldwide. Many drugs, including antibiotics of ‘last resort’ such as vancomycin and daptomycin, are Peptidic Natural Products (PNPs) that have an unparalleled track record in pharmacology. Many antimicrobial and anticancer agents are PNPs, but discovery of new...Read More
Jan 17, 2018
CSE Alumnus from Oracle Addresses Database Researchers at UC San Diego
An early alumnus of the Computer Science and Engineering department will be back on campus Friday, January 19 to address faculty and students involved in the regular Database seminar in CSE, and then participate in a Student Roundtable Chat afterwards. Shasank Chavan, VP, OracleShasank Chavan, who...Read More
Jan 16, 2018
CSE Alumnus’s Startup Shows Tech Takeovers Happen Even in Smaller Markets
Just because he’s not in Silicon Valley or San Diego doesn’t mean that CSE alumnus Matthew Der (M.S., Ph.D. ’13, ’15) couldn’t work for a dynamic startup that would attract a blue-chip takeover. That’s exactly what happened to Notch, Co., a tech consulting firm in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia...Read More