Dec 7, 2017
CSE and Pediatrics Professor Makes Semifinals for Women’s Safety XPRIZE
CSE and Pediatrics assistant professor Debashis Sahoo develops computational models for human cancer and uses them to predict important biomarkers and therapeutic targets. But he is also raising hopes in a very different area. CSE and Pediatrics professor Debashis SahooThe UC San Diego professor...Read More
Nov 30, 2017
University of Maryland Computer Scientist Talks Revocations in CNS Lecture Series
The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) closed out its lecture series for calendar 2017 with a talk by University of Maryland computer science professor Dave Levin on Monday, Dec. 4. In his talk titled "Revocation Are Dead, Long Live Revocations", Levin explored the importance of the web's public...Read More
Nov 30, 2017
Final Defense of Dissertation on Statistical Representations of Microbial Systems
With the growth in research on the human microbiome at UC San Diego and its creation of the Center for Microbiome Research in the Jacobs School of Engineering, one of the first CSE Ph.D. graduates of the program gave his final defense of his doctoral dissertation on Nov. 30. Ph.D. candidate Yoshiki...Read More
Nov 26, 2017
CSE Professor Elected IEEE Fellow in Class of 2018
CSE Professor Tajana Rosing has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She is one of five Jacobs School of Engineering faculty members elevated to be part of the IEEE Fellows class of 2018. (Others include ECE’s Massimo Franceschetti and David Whelan...Read More
Nov 21, 2017
Neural Nets on the (Fashion) Runway
Researchers from the University of California San Diego and Adobe Research have demonstrated how artificial intelligence and neural networking could one day go beyond making recommendations about what fashion to buy, to helping retailers and apparel makers design bespoke clothing for consumers...Read More
Nov 17, 2017
CSE Researchers Help Scripps Scientists Document and Model Coral Reefs for 100 Island Challenge
In a study published recently in the journal Coral Reefs, scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography created and analyzed detailed photomosaics of the coral reef at Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Led by Scripps coral-reef ecology Ph.D. student Clinton Edwards, the team canvassed more...Read More
Nov 16, 2017
Cybersecurity Expert Accepts Test-of-Time Award for Introducing Return-Oriented Programming
At the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2017) in early November, University of California San Diego professor Hovav Shacham was recognized for a paper he presented 10 years earlier that introduced the field of “return-oriented programming.” CSE professor Hovav...Read More
Nov 15, 2017
Internet Society Honors CAIDA Director with Prestigious Service Award
CSE faculty-affiliate and alumna Kimberly (KC) Claffy (M.S. ‘91, Ph.D. ‘94) is the 2017 recipient of the prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. The Internet Society – a global non-profit dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet – called Claffy a “...Read More
Nov 15, 2017
Former CSE Student Gets Funding for High-Flying Startup from Hollywood and the Pentagon
A small San Diego-based startup launched by a former student in CSE to reduce the threat of accidents due to civilian drones flying dangerously is getting some traction from an unusual place: Hollywood. The company is SkySafe, and the Hollywood star is Ashton Kutcher. Exchange on Twitter between...Read More
Nov 14, 2017
Finding a Faster, More Accurate Way to Identify Molecular Structures of Natural Products
Roughly 70 percent of drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are based on natural products such as plants and microorganisms in the soil or in the ocean. Now, four researchers from the Computer Science and Engineering department are part of an interdisciplinary team from UC San...Read More