Mar 7, 2017
Center for Networked Systems Adds New Faculty Members
CSE Assistant Professor Deian StefanThe Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California San Diego now has 22 faculty members following the addition of two new professors to its ranks. Both newcomers – Deian Stefan and Aaron Schulman – joined the Computer Science and Engineering...Read More
Mar 2, 2017
Python Programming and its Application to Data Science
The first workshop in the Spring 2017 SWEET Series will take place on April 19 from 5-6pm in the Qualcomm Conference Room in Jacobs Hall. It will focus on Python programming and its application to data science.The workshops are hosted by the IDEA Engineering Student Center. SWEET stands for...Read More
Mar 2, 2017
SDSC Announces Annual Supercomputing and Data Science Workshop
Week-long Summer Institute workshop is July 31-August 4, 2017 SDSC Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay AltintasCSE lecturer Ilkay Altintas, whose primary job is Chief Data Science Officer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), is among the leading faculty scheduled to teach this summer during...Read More
Feb 28, 2017
UC San Diego Launches Online Courses with edX to Advance Careers in Data Science
The University of California San Diego is launching an online series of courses in Data Science that will roll out through edX, the nonprofit online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. The four courses will be part of edX’s MicroMasters program, offering a credential for career...Read More
Feb 25, 2017
Deadline Looms to Register for CSE Team at Triton 5K Race
Some 4,000 people are expected to attend the 21st annual Triton 5K race, and CSE -- which fielded the largest team at the 2016 race -- is hoping to register as many as 250 people for Team Race Condition (up from roughly 200 last year). The Triton 5K is scheduled for April 9, 2017, and it will be...Read More
Feb 21, 2017
Shedding Light on Cancer Diversity and Resistance
A paradigm-changing study by cancer researchers and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and other institutions found that short fragments of circular DNA that encode cancer genes are far more common in cancer cells than previously believed. Published online in the journal...Read More
Feb 21, 2017
CSE Professor and Five Other UC San Diego Faculty Receive 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships
Professor Daniel M. Kane has dual appointments in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Mathematics departments, and he is one of a select few UC San Diego faculty to be honored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. To further his research on two main topics – the analysis of low-degree...Read More
Feb 20, 2017
Recent Faculty Arrival Starts Teaching This Spring
CSE Assistant Professor Ndapa Nakashole joined the UC San Diego faculty in January, and she will start teaching in the spring quarter with a research-oriented graduate course on Advanced Statistical Natural Language Processing (CSE 291). The course website is now online. "A background in natural...Read More
Feb 19, 2017
Professor Inducted as Fellow at AAAS Annual Meeting
CSE Professor and Calit2 Director Larry Smarr was in Boston Feb. 18 for his induction to be a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is one of five faculty of the University of California San Diego elected in 2016 and inducted during the annual meeting of the...Read More
Feb 13, 2017
CSE Professor to Speak at Jacobs School Research Expo
Mark your calendars for Thursday, April 20. That's when the Jacobs School of Engineering will host Research Expo 2017. This year's event will include four faculty talks representing hot-button research topics, centers and labs. Computer Science and Engineering associate professor Laurel Riek will...Read More