Jan 26, 2017
Campus Convenes Data Sciences and Analytics Faculty Forums; Next Set for January 30
On Tuesday, January 24, UC San Diego interim executive vice chancellor Peter Cowhey convened the first of two faculty forums. The goal: to give faculty across campus a say in developing a university-wide Data Science Initiative. The second of the two Data Sciences and Analytics Faculty Forums is...Read More
Jan 25, 2017
New Professor Makes Forbes Short List of Top Scientists Under 30
In her first year as an assistant professor at the University of California San Diego, Melissa Gymrek is already bringing honor to the institution. In its 2017 roster of top-notch young scientists, Forbes magazine included Gymrek among its top 30 researchers in the Science category under age 30....Read More
Jan 24, 2017
CSE Researchers Collaborate with Scripps, QI on Underwater Robot Swarm to Study Ocean Life
Underwater robots developed by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography with the involvement of faculty from the Computer Science and Engineering department as well as Calit2's Qualcomm Institute (QI) are offering scientists an extraordinary new tool to study ocean currents and the...Read More
Jan 23, 2017
UC San Diego Center at NSDI 2017: Innovating in Networked Systems
Researchers affiliated with the Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California San Diego have been selected to present some of their most up-to-date research at the 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2017). CNS co-director George...Read More
Jan 22, 2017
CSE Alumnus Invites Ph.D. Students to Apply for Machine Learning Summer Internships at Amazon
Amazon logoAmazon is making a special effort in its search for Ph.D. students eager to work on real-world data sets motivated by business questions, as well as "exciting and challenging machine learning problems." The central machine-learning team at Amazon, through a CSE alumnus in machine...Read More
Jan 19, 2017
CSE Faculty Affiliate Uses Drones to Gauge Damage from Seismic Aftermath
If the prospect of a mega-earthquake has you quaking — fear not, because UC San Diego engineers are making sure our world will withstand the rumble. And in addition to using the world’s largest outdoor shake table, researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering also turned to drones to capture the...Read More
Jan 13, 2017
Teaching Computers to Recognize Sick Guts: Machine Learning and the Microbiome
A new proof-of-concept study by computer scientists and other researchers at UC San Diego succeeded in training computers to “learn” what a healthy versus an unhealthy gut microbiome looks like based on its genetic makeup. Since this can be done by genetically sequencing fecal samples, the research...Read More
Jan 11, 2017
Award to Graduate Women in Computing at UC San Diego to Help Expand Mentoring
With women making up less than 30 percent of graduate students in computer science at the University of California San Diego, the group known as Graduate Women in Computing (GradWIC) on campus is looking to beef up its academic mentorship program. To that end, GradWIC will receive a $5,000...Read More
Jan 10, 2017
Software System Labels Coral Reef Images in Record Time
CoralNet works 10 to 100 times faster than processing image data by hand Much faster processing of coral-reef images is based on deep learning technology.Computer scientists at UC San Diego have released a new version of a software system that processes images from the world’s coral reefs anywhere...Read More
Dec 20, 2016
KC Claffy among “10 Women to Know in Networking/Communications”
CSE adjunct professor KC Claffy, principal investigator and founding director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), has been named to the second annual “10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Know” list. KC Claffy is...Read More