Mar 22, 2021
Two CSE Professors Receive NSF CAREER Awards
By Katie E. Ismael UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) professors Deian Stefan and Sicun Gao have been awarded prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grants from the National Science Foundation to support their work to build secure computer systems and...Read More
Mar 8, 2021
Computer Science Professor Will Help Defend Human-Bot Teams Against Adversaries With MURI Award
UC San Diego computer science professor Kamalika Chaudhuri is part of a multi-university team that has won a prestigious US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award to develop rigorous methods for robust human-machine collaboration against adversaries. ...Read More
Mar 8, 2021
CSE Research Sets Up Two Students for NCWIT Collegiate Award
By Josh Baxt UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Ph.D. student Angelique Taylor and Princeton University undergraduate Nicole Meister are finalists in the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) Collegiate Award, thanks to the mentorship and research...Read More
Feb 25, 2021
In Memoriam: CSE Professor Emeritus Walter Savitch
Walter Savitch, University of California San Diego Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering, passed away on February 1, 2021. He passed three weeks before his 78th birthday due to complications related to Parkinson's disease. Savitch is remembered as a kind and patient advisor, a...Read More
Feb 25, 2021
Congrats to Niema Moshiri: CSE’s Teacher of the Year
By Katie E. Ismael A UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering undergrad turned Ph.D. student then professor is now the Computer Science and Engineering Department’s (CSE) Teacher of the Year for 2019-2020. In only his second year as a CSE assistant teaching professor, Niema Moshiri has been...Read More
Feb 23, 2021
UC San Diego Computer Science Professor Studies the Stunning Significance of Extrachromosomal DNA
Cancer is a genetic disease that can lay waste to DNA. In many cases, error correction mechanisms mutate, removing the quality control circuits that maintain genes, setting the stage for more mutations. But sometimes the changes are even more profound. Chunks of DNA are duplicated and break away...Read More
Feb 19, 2021
Undergrad Researchers Shine in CRA Awards
By Katie E. Ismael Four standout undergraduate engineers from UC San Diego were among the impressive group of students recognized recently by the Computing Research Association (CRA) for their significant contributions to research. The 2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards named...Read More
Feb 18, 2021
Computer Science and Pediatrics Professor Pursues XPRIZE to Better Balance COVID Solutions
One of the ongoing debates during the COVID-19 pandemic has been which non-pharmaceutical interventions prevent disease spread and how stringent they should be. To help answer this question, XPRIZE and New Jersey-based Cognizant are offering $500,000 to the team that develops the best data tools to...Read More
Feb 11, 2021
Kristen Vaccaro and the Science of Social Media
By Josh Baxt New assistant professor Kristen Vaccaro came to UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering Department from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she recently earned her Ph.D. After spending several years in chilly Illinois, she’s pleased to be wintering in San...Read More
Feb 8, 2021
Deepfake detectors can be defeated, computer scientists show for the first time
By Ioana Patringenaru Systems designed to detect deepfakes --videos that manipulate real-life footage via artificial intelligence--can be deceived, computer scientists showed for the first time at the WACV 2021 conference which took place online Jan. 5 to 9, 2021. Researchers with Computer...Read More