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Feb 23, 2021
UC San Diego Computer Science Professor Studies the Stunning Significance of Extrachromosomal DNA
Cancer is a genetic disease that can lay waste to DNA. In many cases, error correction mechanisms mutate, removing the quality control circuits that maintain genes, setting the stage for more mutations. But sometimes the changes are even more profound. Chunks of DNA are duplicated and break away...Read More
Feb 19, 2021
Undergrad Researchers Shine in CRA Awards
By Katie E. Ismael Four standout undergraduate engineers from UC San Diego were among the impressive group of students recognized recently by the Computing Research Association (CRA) for their significant contributions to research. The 2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards named...Read More
Feb 18, 2021
Computer Science and Pediatrics Professor Pursues XPRIZE to Better Balance COVID Solutions
One of the ongoing debates during the COVID-19 pandemic has been which non-pharmaceutical interventions prevent disease spread and how stringent they should be. To help answer this question, XPRIZE and New Jersey-based Cognizant are offering $500,000 to the team that develops the best data tools to...Read More
Feb 11, 2021
Kristen Vaccaro and the Science of Social Media
By Josh Baxt New assistant professor Kristen Vaccaro came to UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering Department from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she recently earned her Ph.D. After spending several years in chilly Illinois, she’s pleased to be wintering in San...Read More
Feb 8, 2021
Deepfake detectors can be defeated, computer scientists show for the first time
By Ioana Patringenaru Systems designed to detect deepfakes --videos that manipulate real-life footage via artificial intelligence--can be deceived, computer scientists showed for the first time at the WACV 2021 conference which took place online Jan. 5 to 9, 2021. Researchers with...Read More
Feb 5, 2021
Music and Computer Science Professor Shlomo Dubnov Studies The Sounds of COVID
By Doug Ramsey Millions of people already use Fitbit and other devices to monitor and track a variety of personal health metrics. Now, a researcher at the University of California San Diego has published data indicating that analyzing voice signals can detect COVID-19 infection when compared with...Read More
Feb 3, 2021
CSE Undergrads Stand Out at POPL ’21 Conference
Three UC San Diego computer science undergraduate students took home top honors at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages' Student Research Competition. Darya Verzhbinsky and Daniel Wang were awarded first place for their work on Polymorphic Enumerative Type-Guided...Read More
Jan 21, 2021
CSE Launches Unique Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
By Josh Baxt To help give newly minted Ph.D.s more opportunities during the coronavirus-fueled economic downturn, the UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department has established the CSE Fellows program. “We wanted to create a bridge for graduating Ph.D. students while the...Read More
Jan 19, 2021
Congratulations to Qualcomm Innovation Fellows
By Josh Baxt The Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) recognizes creative Ph.D. students, providing them with funding, mentoring and other resources to pursue innovative research. This year, five UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering teams were awarded fellowships – four from Computer...Read More
Jan 15, 2021
CSE’s Steven Swanson Named Inaugural Holder of the Halicioğlu Endowed Chair in Memory Systems
UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Professor Steven Swanson is building computer systems that explore how new memory technologies will impact the future of computing. In recognition of his impressive body of research to create software to support persistent memory, Swanson was...Read More