Sep 18, 2018
Computer Scientists Receive $2M NSF Grant to Expand Early Research Program for Underrepresented Groups
A program at the University of California San Diego designed to increase retention of underrepresented groups studying computer science will get a roughly $2 million boost from the National Science Foundation over the next five years. The funds will support expansion of the Early Research Scholars...Read More
Jul 24, 2018
UC San Diego Selected to Lead Development of Open-source Tools for Hardware Design Automation
The University of California San Diego has been awarded $11.3 million over four years from DARPA to lead a multi-institution project which aims to develop electronic design automation tools for 24-hour, no-human-in-the-loop hardware layout generation. UCSD CSE Professor Andrew Kahng will serve as...Read More
Jul 13, 2018
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh Named IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture's "Young Computer Architect" for 2018
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Hadi Esmaeilzadeh has been named the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture’s “Young Computer Architect” for 2018, for his contributions to new computer architectures that underlie the growing success of artificial intelligence (AI...Read More
Apr 25, 2018
NSF CAREER Award for Manmohan Chandraker’s Research to Improve the Way Machines Learn in 3D
Research led by University of California San Diego’s Manmohan Chandraker to improve the way intelligent machines “reason” about the physical, three-dimensional world has received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The work establishes connections between computer vision,...Read More
Apr 23, 2018
We Are CSE
The diversity of research and people in UC San Diego's Department of Computer Science and Engineering is highlighted in the new program, We Are CSE, on the UCTV Computer Science Channel. Featured profiles include: Assistant Professor Manmohan Chandraker, CNS postdoc researcher Max Mellette, PhD...Read More
Apr 20, 2018
UC San Diego Students Take Home Best Paper Award at International Symposium on Physical Design
Two University of California San Diego graduate students from the departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering were awarded the Best Paper Award and a $1000 prize this week at the 2018 International Symposium on Physical Design in Monterey, California. Now...Read More
Apr 13, 2018
Chancellor Khosla Attends 2018 CSE Tutor Reunion
Current and past CSE tutors, CSE faculty, CSE Alumni Advisory Board members, staff and guests attended the 2018 CSE Tutor Reunion at Atkinson Hall on April 13th. UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla also came to the event and provided a Welcome Address. Attendees were able to network, hear about...Read More
Mar 26, 2018
A wearable system to monitor the stomach's activity throughout the day
San Diego, Calif., March 26, 2018 — A team of researchers has developed a wearable, non-invasive system to monitor electrical activity in the stomach over 24 hours — essentially an electrocardiogram but for the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract. Researchers have developed a wearable system to monitor...Read More
Mar 13, 2018
UC San Diego Hosts Its First Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality Hackathon
By Betsy Meeker and Katherine Connor Anish Kannan, a fourth year computer science student at UC San Diego, had no interest in virtual reality (VR) until one fateful hackathon four years ago. “When I was a freshman, I went to a virtual reality hackathon and it pretty much changed my college...Read More
Jan 30, 2018
Students Launch Hackathon for Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality
Welcome to HackXR. The student-run Virtual Reality Club at the University of California San Diego is launching the university’s first-ever hackathon devoted exclusively to software programming for what they call ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) applications. Navigating a VR environment in the Virtual...Read More