Nov 5, 2016
Electing Tomorrow's 'Researchest' Area of Computer Science
On Friday, November 4, some CSE students got in the swing of things ahead of Tuesday's presidential election. CSE grad students were invited to attend an Election Day Social Hour along the theme "Make CSE Great Again, #StrongerTogether." The parties were not divided by political labels, but rather...Read More
Nov 2, 2016
CSE Professor Helps Direct Drone Research to Track Endangered Iguanas
CSE Prof. Ryan Kastner did not participate in the international expedition that sent fellow UC San Diego researchers to the Cayman Islands in connection with the Engineers for Exploration (E4E) program, which enlists students to build technologies to help scientists, conservationists and explorers...Read More
Nov 1, 2016
Best Paper Award Goes to Operating Systems Researchers
A team of current and former students of University of California San Diego Computer Science and Engineering professor Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou, together with a longtime industry collaborator, are the recipients of a Best Paper Award at the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and...Read More
Oct 31, 2016
DNA Day Features CSE Faculty, Alumni Speakers
Three professors affiliated with the Computer Science and Engineering department were among the speakers at the second DNA Day on October 28. Originally staged in 2015, the 2016 event was again organized by CSE Prof. Vineet Bafna along with Semyon Kruglyak at Illumina. The day-long workshop was co-...Read More
Oct 31, 2016
CSE Alumnus Wins Most Influential Paper for Work on Runtime Verification
Halfway across the world computer scientists gathered in Singapore on Oct. 30 for the start of the Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), which runs through Nov. 3. This year's general chair of the conference is a former computer...Read More
Oct 28, 2016
UC San Diego Computer Science Ranked #17 Globally
U.S. News & World Report is out with an expanded version of its 2017 Best Global Universities, ranking the 1,000 top research universities in the world (up from 750 ranked last year). The universities are spread across 65 countries. Despite the larger number of universities in the rankings, UC...Read More
Oct 28, 2016
Adjunct Professor's Project Awarded DHS Grant
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded $1.4 million grant to the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) , directed by SDSC research scientist and CSE adjunct professor KC Claffy. The funding will allow CAIDA to expand Archipelago Measurement Infrastructure (with worldwide...Read More
Oct 25, 2016
Computer Scientists, Others Brief IBM on UC San Diego Research
Two faculty members with appointments in the Computer Science and Engineering department were among those professors and university administrators making presentations to a delegation of senior IBM researchers who visited UC San Diego in mid-October. The delegation of five IBM executives was led...Read More
Oct 25, 2016
Understanding the Visual Dynamics of Opinions and Purchases
CSE Professor Julian McAuley will speak on Wednesday as part of the Design Lab's Design@Large Fall 2016 lecture series. His topic: "Understanding the Visual Dynamics of Opinions and Purchases". Date: Wednesday, October 26Time: 4:00pm - 5:15pmLocation: Room 1202, CSE Building Abstract: Services...Read More
Oct 25, 2016
Exploiting Structure in the Stable Matching Problem
Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate Daniel Moeller is scheduled to stage the final defense of his dissertation this week on the topic of "Exploiting Structure in the Stable Matching Problem." His advisor, CSE Prof. Mohan Paturi, will chair the panel that includes fellow CSE professors...Read More