Sep 5, 2017
CSE Alumnus Works on Potential Road-Sign Threat to Self-Driving Cars
CSE alumnus Tadayoshi Kohno (Ph.D. ’06), now a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, is one of the authors behind a controversial new paper on “Robust Physical-World Attacks on Machine Learning Models.” CSE alumnus Yoshi KohnoKohno – an expert in computer...Read More
Sep 4, 2017
Times Higher Education Ranks UC San Diego #5 Best Public University in the World
UC San Diego has netted the #5 spot in the UK-based Times Higher Education ranking of the globe’s best public universities. The campus was named 31st overall among universities worldwide and the nation’s 20th best college based on quality of teaching, knowledge transfer, international outlook and...Read More
Sep 1, 2017
Coursera Promotes UC San Diego Online Courses in CS and Data Engineering
Two of Coursera's four top specializations in computer science and data engineering were developed with partners at UC San Diego.Here’s a sign of the times: When it sent out a list of four “top specializations” – each containing five or six courses in the area of computer science and data...Read More
Aug 28, 2017
NSF Funds CSE Professor to Model Human-Robot Teamwork in Uncertain Environments
Laurel Riek, associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego, will lead a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) project on new methods for coordinating teams of robots and people in complex, uncertain environments. The $750,000 award is...Read More
Aug 28, 2017
UC San Diego Ranked #2 Nationwide for Serving the Public Interest
The magazine Washington Monthly has named the University of California San Diego the second ranked public university in the U.S. for promoting upward social mobility, producing groundbreaking research and serving the nation’s public interest. The national magazine’s annual rankings recognize what...Read More
Aug 25, 2017
Drone Truthing Makes Geisel Library a Test Case
A team of researchers from across UC San Diego is developing a new approach for detecting damage to buildings during earthquakes and other extreme events. UC San Diego researchers are using lasers and drones to create a digital record of Geisel Library. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San DiegoThey came...Read More
Aug 24, 2017
Students Complete 'Arguably Most Complex Chip Ever Created in Academia'
On Monday, August 21 at the 2017 IEEE/ACM Hot Chips Symposium on High Performance Chips (HOTCHIPS), researchers from the University of California San Diego, Cornell University, University of Michigan and UCLA jointly unveiled Celerity, the first open-source, RISC-V tiered accelerator fabric system...Read More
Aug 24, 2017
Help UC San Diego Scientists Study Link between Body Bacteria and Autoimmune Diseases
The public's help is being enlisted in the Microbiome Immunity Project, what's thought to be the biggest study to date of the human microbiome — the communities of bacteria and other microbes that live in and on the human body, where they influence our health. The project is co-led by Pediatrics...Read More
Aug 23, 2017
Incoming Grad Student Co-Authors Guide to "Machine Learning for Humans"
Samer Sabri is an incoming first-year M.S. student in Computer Science at the University of California San Diego. He is returning to school this fall for the first time since completing his undergraduate degree in computer science at Yale University in 2013. Samer Sabri“I picked the department of...Read More
Aug 21, 2017
Expanding the Pipeline Via CSE's Early Research Scholars Program
In the August 2017 issue of Computing Research News, published by the Computing Research Association (CRA), CSE associate teaching professor Christine Alvarado has an excellent article about UC San Diego's Early Research Scholars Program and how it engages undergraduates in research. Titled "...Read More