Jun 15, 2016
Cybersecurity Expert Named to Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair
Just days after he accepted the prestigious ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, University of California San Diego professor Stefan Savage received another honor: the Irwin Mark and Joan Klein Jacobs Chair in Information and Computer Science. This endowed faculty chair at the UC San Diego Jacobs School...Read More
Jun 15, 2016
Students Develop Games to Teach Kids ‘Cool Ways to Recycle’
The computer animation is relatively modest – for good reason. Specifically, the 25 students taking CSE 198 with CSE Prof. Geoffrey Voelker decided that their interactive games should be designed not for college students, but for… third-graders. Why? According to project leader Danielle Tobey, it...Read More
Jun 14, 2016
Staff Honored for Work with Students with Disabilities
Undergraduate Advisor Viera Kair (pictured on left) and Intake Advisor Wendi Stephens are being honored for one part of their jobs: serving through the Office of Students with Disabilities (OSD). They were recognized for outstanding service in providing accommodations to UC San Diego students with...Read More
Jun 9, 2016
Jacobs School and Rady School Partner on Global Program
At an early-June event to launch the new UC San Diego Institute for the Global Entrepreneur (IGE), the campus celebrated the joint program's mission: to train students to become entrepreneurs and technology leaders. The program places graduate students from the Jacobs School of Engineering and MBA...Read More
Jun 8, 2016
Computer Graphics and Vision Expert Appointed to Endowed Faculty Chair
University of California San Diego professor Ravi Ramamoorthi is the inaugural holder of a new endowed faculty chair in the university’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). The university has appointed Ramamoorthi to the Ronald L. Graham Chair of Computer Science. The chair is...Read More
Jun 8, 2016
'Commercial' Teases Longer Video about CSE 110 Web Enrollment Application
It's not often that a computer science and engineering team of students goes to the trouble of creating a video 'trailer' to promote a new web application (pictured at right). Using movie trailers for Hollywood blockbusters as a template, students from Team Super User Planner (SUP), one of 20...Read More
Jun 5, 2016
CSE and Design Lab Presence at CHI 2016
The Design Lab at UC San Diego was out in force last month for CHI 2016, the premier human-computer interaction (HCI) annual conference, and Computer Science and Engineering faculty and graduate students were among those on hand in San Jose. CSE faculty attending CHI included Scott Klemmer, Bill...Read More
Jun 3, 2016
CSE Ph.D. Student Accepts Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Johns Hopkins
As more postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. candidates make the rounds of universities in the market for new faculty in computer science, computer engineering or bioinformatics, another CSE soon-to-be-graduate is headed to do research and teach computer science at Johns Hopkins University. Peng (...Read More
Jun 3, 2016
Student Startup Seeks Support via Kickstarter Campaign
A team of CSE students working in a startup is now taking their next step with the launch of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. The startup, Giventure, calls itself "your personal assistant for volunteering”. Co-founded by Computer Science majors Sneha Jayaprakash (pictured at center with some...Read More
Jun 3, 2016
Tau Beta Pi Honors CSE Professor
The UC San Diego chapter of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honors society has selected the winners of its Faculty of the Year awards. For the 2015-16 academic year, members were asked to nominate faculty based not just on their teaching in the classroom, but also on their impact on the overall...Read More