Mar 28, 2017
CSE Involvement in Bermuda 100 Challenge to Digitally Preserve Historic Shipwrecks
What if you could go on a digital dive to experience shipwrecks and other maritime heritage? Diver moves sand away from the Mary Celestia shipwreck prior to scanning the site for a 3D computer model. (Photo by Chris Burville) Watch a 3D video flythrough of the wreck site.This is exactly what a...Read More
Mar 27, 2017
Rajesh Gupta Honored with Appointment to French National Institute
INRIA, the French national institute for computer science and applied mathematics, has created a new International Chair and appointed American computer engineer Rajesh Gupta to the part-time position. Gupta is a professor and former chair of the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department in...Read More
Mar 27, 2017
CSE Alumnus and Lecturer Taner Halicioglu Makes $75 Million Gift for Data Science at UC San Diego
Facebook pioneeer will establish the Halicioglu Institute for Data Science at UC San Diego As a child, CSE alumnus Taner Halicioglu (B.S. '96) discovered how things worked by dissecting electronic equipment—it could be a radio or walkie talkie, and even a TV at one point. At UC San Diego, the self...Read More
Mar 24, 2017
Industrial Robotics Growth in China and Asia Far Outpace U.S. Growth Rate
CSE professor Henrik Christensen, director of the Contextual Robotics Institute at UC San Diego, testified March 16 in front of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a bipartisan group that monitors and investigates the national security implications of the bilateral trade and...Read More
Mar 23, 2017
Cyber-Archaeology Virtual Reality Hackathon
Organized by the student-run Virtual Reality Club at UC San Diego with support from the Qualcomm Institute-based Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability (CCAS), the Cyber-Archaeology VR hackathon invites participation by graduate and undergraduate students from CSE and other departments on...Read More
Mar 21, 2017
Using Batteries to Cut Utility Costs
CNS postdoctoral researcher Alper Sinan Akyurek developed an algorithm for controlling batteries that can decrease the utility cost of an actual building by up to 50 percent compared to a building powered without the use of batteries. Alper Sinan Akyurek is a postdoc in CNS and the Systems Energy...Read More
Mar 19, 2017
CSE Alumni, Students Launch Kickstarter Campaign for Smart Mirror
UC San Diego CSE alumnus Noah Martin (B.S. ’16) got his start in hackathons as an undergraduate majoring in computer engineering. Together with three of his fellow students in CSE, Martin shared in the prize for Best iOS Hack for ezTouch, an app to lock and unlock your computer from anywhere, at...Read More
Mar 14, 2017
CSE Researchers Explore Multimodal Technology for Assessing Symptoms of Stroke
CSE research assistant professor Nadir WeibelCSE research assistant professor Nadir Weibel is leading a small, interdisciplinary team that has been awarded a Frontier of Innovation Scholars Program grant to pursue a sensor-based approach to multimodal stroke signature. The so-called Stroke-Kinect...Read More
Mar 11, 2017
Professors Launch CS Theo ry Events Website
CSE Prof. Shachar Lovett and CSE visiting assistant professor Alexander (Sasha) Kulikov, a senior research fellow in the Laboratory of Mathematical Logic of St. Petersburg (a department of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics), have launched a new website for the computer-science theory community....Read More
Mar 9, 2017
CSE Professor, Lecturer Team with UC San Diego Health to Bring 3D Visualization to Abdomenal Surgery
CSE's Larry Smarr talking about the experimental with 3D model of affected colon in background. Photo by Kyle Dykes, UC San Diego HealthTurning a fairly routine procedure into a bold experiment, CSE Professor Larry Smarr, director of Calit2, recently underwent a segmental colon resection (removing...Read More