May 1, 2023
Supun Nakandala (PhD ’22) Wins SIGMOD Dissertation Award
By Kimberley Clementi UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering alumnus Supun Nakandala (PhD ’22) has been selected as winner of the Jim Gray Dissertation Award 2023 by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD). This prestigious award...Read More
Apr 24, 2023
CSE Faculty Recognized with Amazon Research Awards
By Kimberley Clementi Three faculty members from UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department were among the 79 Amazon Research Award recipients announced for the fall 2022 cycle. CSE Assistant Professor Sean Gao, who was also a 2021 awardee, was honored along with Associate...Read More
Apr 24, 2023
Jessica Echterhoff (MS ’22, PhD ’25) Nets CSE’s First Apple Scholars in AI/ML Fellowship
By Kimberley Clementi Department of Computer Science and Engineering PhD student Jessica Echterhoff has been named a 2023 recipient of the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship. Echterhoff, the first UC San Diego student to receive this award since the inaugural class was announced in 2020,...Read More
Mar 23, 2023
Is There a Quantum Advantage? Daniel Grier Joins CSE to Prove That There Is.
By Kimberley Clementi Quantum computing is to classical computing what Ant-Man is to The Avengers: a diminutive team member with a sizeable advantage performing certain tasks. At least that’s what Daniel Grier, a new assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering and Mathematics...Read More
Mar 10, 2023
UC San Diego “Fallen Star” Team Rises to the Top in ICPC Regional Contest
By Kimberley Clementi A team of UC San Diego computer science and math students ranked first place in the Southern California Regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), the world’s largest and most prestigious programming competition. The team outperformed peers...Read More
Mar 2, 2023
Meet the Inaugural Cohort of ServiceNow Scholars
By Katherine Connor Nine undergraduate computer science and engineering students at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego have been selected as inaugural recipients of the ServiceNow scholarship. ServiceNow Scholars are computer science students with outstanding academic merit,...Read More
Feb 24, 2023
CNS’s Network Grows Stronger
By Kimberley Clementi UC San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS) is adding four additional faculty members to its growing ranks. Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) assistant professors Earlence Fernandes, Imani Munyaka and Amy Ousterhout will be supporting CNS research...Read More
Feb 13, 2023
Two New Deep Minds Join CSE's DeepMind Fellows
By Kimberley Clementi UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) is proud to announce two additional DeepMind Fellows, adding to the growing class of exceptional machine learning master’s students to benefit from the program since it began in 2020. Katya Katsy and Amber Olsen...Read More
Feb 9, 2023
Cybersecurity Expert Stefan Savage Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
By Ioana Patringenaru UC San Diego cybersecurity expert Stefan Savage, whose work examines a wide range of technologies, from cars, to spam emails to cryptocurrencies, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. It’s the latest in a long series of accolades for Savage, who has also...Read More
Feb 1, 2023
CSE Researchers and Intel Join DARPA Program to Prevent Exploitation of Computing Systems
Credit: Intel What’s New: Intel and the UC San Diego announced they have been selected to join the Hardening Development Toolchains Against Emergent Execution Engines (HARDEN) program team for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Adversaries have crafted increasingly complex...Read More