Mar 4, 2022
New, Highly Accurate Algorithm Scales Ability to Assemble Complete Genomes
By Josh Baxt An international team led by researchers at University of California San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering has shown that a new genome assembly algorithm, called the La Jolla Assembler (LJA), vastly improves large genomes reconstruction, the process by which...Read More
Feb 28, 2022
PhD Student Receives Prestigious Adobe Research Fellowship to Improve Interactive Machines
By Josh Baxt Bodhisattwa (Bodhi) Prasad Majumder, a UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) PhD student, has been honored with an Adobe Research Fellowship. The fellowships are only awarded to about ten people each year, and Majumder is the third CSE graduate student...Read More
Feb 23, 2022
Meet CSE’s Newest Postdoc Fellows
By Katie E. Ismael This year’s class of CSE Fellows in UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) includes post-PhD researchers from Canada, Italy and France. The diverse group of scholars was selected for the second cohort of the CSE Fellows Program, which was...Read More
Feb 17, 2022
Barna Saha and the Golden Road to UC San Diego
By any measure or metric, the road from Siliguri, a small town outside Darjeeling, India, to UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is a long one. At one end, the road lacks infrastructure. Education opportunities are limited. At the other, a world-class university...Read More
Feb 15, 2022
Deian Stefan Receives Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship to Develop Secure Systems
By Josh Baxt UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Deian Stefan has been honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Stefan will receive $75,000 during the two-year fellowship to advance his work on browser security. Stefan is the third UC San Diego...Read More
Feb 9, 2022
Educating the Next Generation of Data Scientists, Virtually
By Katie E. Ismael The University of California San Diego is launching its first online graduate degree program this fall to help meet the demand for data scientists as companies across all sectors seek to leverage vast amounts of data into meaningful insights. Applications for the new Master...Read More
Feb 4, 2022
A Mega Achievement: Two UC San Diego Students Named 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellows
By Katie E. Ismael The University of California San Diego boasts two of this year’s 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellows—37scholars selected from a pool of 2,300 applicants worldwide. As fellows, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) PhD students Stewart Grant and Kabir Nagrecha will...Read More
Feb 2, 2022
Change Makers of CSE: KC Claffy (PhD ’94) and the Evolving Internet
Kimberly (KC) Claffy had just completed her PhD in UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering when she noticed a problem: internet measurement data for scientific research might not always be available. The problem showed up soon after she graduated in 1994 when NSFNET, the...Read More
Jan 25, 2022
From Coffee Cart to Educational Computing Platform
By Daniel Kane In classic UC San Diego fashion, an overheard conversation at a campus coffee cart has turned into an interdisciplinary project that's making computing-intensive coursework more exciting while saving well over one million dollars so far. The effort—now being used in numerous...Read More
Jan 21, 2022
UC San Diego Receives $14M to Drive Precision Nutrition with Gut Microbiome Data
By Scott LaFee The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s All of Us Research Program is a national effort to build a large, diverse database of 1 million or more people whom researchers can use to study health and disease. The NIH is now awarding $170 million in grant funding to centers across...Read More