Sep 19, 2017
CSE Recruits 15 Lecturers to Help Teach Undergraduates in 2017-2018
According to CSE assistant teaching professor Mia Minnes, who chairs the department's recruiting committee for lecturers this year, CSE has lined up a stellar group of 15 lecturers to assume some of the undergraduate teaching duties not already covered by tenure-track and teaching professors as...Read More
Sep 15, 2017
Ph.D. Candidate to Defend Dissertation on Computational Methods to Study Genomic Structure and Structural Variation
CSE Ph.D. candidate Viraj Deshpande will stage the final defense of his doctoral dissertation on September 20 at 10am in room 1202 of the CSE building. The topic of his thesis: "Computational Methods to Study Genomic Structure and Structural Variation." Ph.D. candidate Viraj DeshpandeDeshpande is...Read More
Sep 12, 2017
Newspaper Features UC Responses to Demand for Data Science Education
The San Francisco Chronicle published a feature article on September 5 on how “universities rush to add data science majors as demand explodes.” In the article, writer Isha Salian notes that “UC San Diego is starting a data science undergraduate major and minor this fall.” She also reports that “UC...Read More
Sep 5, 2017
CSE Alumnus Works on Potential Road-Sign Threat to Self-Driving Cars
CSE alumnus Tadayoshi Kohno (Ph.D. ’06), now a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, is one of the authors behind a controversial new paper on “Robust Physical-World Attacks on Machine Learning Models.” CSE alumnus Yoshi KohnoKohno – an expert in computer...Read More
Sep 4, 2017
Times Higher Education Ranks UC San Diego #5 Best Public University in the World
UC San Diego has netted the #5 spot in the UK-based Times Higher Education ranking of the globe’s best public universities. The campus was named 31st overall among universities worldwide and the nation’s 20th best college based on quality of teaching, knowledge transfer, international outlook and...Read More
Sep 1, 2017
Coursera Promotes UC San Diego Online Courses in CS and Data Engineering
Two of Coursera's four top specializations in computer science and data engineering were developed with partners at UC San Diego.Here’s a sign of the times: When it sent out a list of four “top specializations” – each containing five or six courses in the area of computer science and data...Read More
Aug 28, 2017
NSF Funds CSE Professor to Model Human-Robot Teamwork in Uncertain Environments
Laurel Riek, associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego, will lead a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) project on new methods for coordinating teams of robots and people in complex, uncertain environments. The $750,000 award is...Read More
Aug 28, 2017
UC San Diego Ranked #2 Nationwide for Serving the Public Interest
The magazine Washington Monthly has named the University of California San Diego the second ranked public university in the U.S. for promoting upward social mobility, producing groundbreaking research and serving the nation’s public interest. The national magazine’s annual rankings recognize what...Read More
Aug 25, 2017
Drone Truthing Makes Geisel Library a Test Case
A team of researchers from across UC San Diego is developing a new approach for detecting damage to buildings during earthquakes and other extreme events. UC San Diego researchers are using lasers and drones to create a digital record of Geisel Library. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San DiegoThey came...Read More
Aug 24, 2017
Students Complete 'Arguably Most Complex Chip Ever Created in Academia'
On Monday, August 21 at the 2017 IEEE/ACM Hot Chips Symposium on High Performance Chips (HOTCHIPS), researchers from the University of California San Diego, Cornell University, University of Michigan and UCLA jointly unveiled Celerity, the first open-source, RISC-V tiered accelerator fabric system...Read More