Aug 24, 2017
Help UC San Diego Scientists Study Link between Body Bacteria and Autoimmune Diseases
The public's help is being enlisted in the Microbiome Immunity Project, what's thought to be the biggest study to date of the human microbiome — the communities of bacteria and other microbes that live in and on the human body, where they influence our health. The project is co-led by Pediatrics...Read More
Aug 23, 2017
Incoming Grad Student Co-Authors Guide to "Machine Learning for Humans"
Samer Sabri is an incoming first-year M.S. student in Computer Science at the University of California San Diego. He is returning to school this fall for the first time since completing his undergraduate degree in computer science at Yale University in 2013. Samer Sabri“I picked the department of...Read More
Aug 21, 2017
Expanding the Pipeline Via CSE's Early Research Scholars Program
In the August 2017 issue of Computing Research News, published by the Computing Research Association (CRA), CSE associate teaching professor Christine Alvarado has an excellent article about UC San Diego's Early Research Scholars Program and how it engages undergraduates in research. Titled "...Read More
Aug 21, 2017
Computer Scientists Develop Automated Tools to Uncover Advertising by Human Traffickers
Organizers of the 23rd ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) just wrapped up their five-day annual conference, which ended on August 17 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. One of the highest-profile presentations was a paper with co-authors from UC Berkeley, UC San...Read More
Aug 18, 2017
$100,000 Gift from Cognex Supports Research at Intersection of Deep Learning and 3D Image Reconstruction
The University of California San Diego has received a $100,000 gift from Cognex Corporation, a leader in machine vision. The gift will allow teams of professors and graduate students at the Jacobs School of Engineering to explore research at the intersection of deep learning and 3-D image...Read More
Aug 18, 2017
CSE Ph.D. and Faculty Presence at USENIX Security Symposium 2017
The 26th USENIX Security Symposium took place Aug. 16-18 in Vancouver, Canada, and security researchers in the CSE department were well represented on the conference program (in addition to the opening announcement of the USENIX Security Test of Time Award, which went to CSE's Geoffrey Voelker and...Read More
Aug 18, 2017
CSE Lecturer Honored for Research Leadership in Scientific and Technical Computing
The ACM Special Interest Group on High-Performance Computing (SIGHPC) gives an award every other year to single out a mid-career woman in the computing field. The ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award will be presented this November at SC17 to UC San Diego computer scientist...Read More
Aug 16, 2017
Computer Security Experts Honored for Research that Stands the Test of Time
Denial of service attacks (DoS) have crippled even the likes of Google and Amazon in recent years, topping at a reported 1.1 terabits per second in 2016. But they were a relatively unexplored phenomenon in the year 2000, when three computer scientists from the University of California San Diego set...Read More
Aug 14, 2017
Design Lab Faculty to Launch NSF-Funded Graduate Education Project
On September 1, the Design Lab at UC San Diego will launch a new project to help teach incoming graduate students how to program in the era of big data. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program, and the Design Lab project is...Read More
Aug 13, 2017
Extending State-of-Art Techniques for Concurrency Verification to Distributed Setting
Professor Ilya Sergey, a lecturer in computer science at University College London in the UK was on campus Friday, August 11, to give a talk in the CSE department. Sergey is a member of the UCL Computer Science Department's Programming Principles, Logic and Verification group. The talk on "...Read More