Jun 2, 2016
CSE Students to Showcase Computer Graphics Projects
CSE lecturer Jurgen Schulze, a research scientist in the Qualcomm Institute’s visualization group, is expecting big things when some 120 students from CSE 167, Introduction to Computer Graphics, demonstrate their class projects next week in a two-stage set of demos. Members of the CSE community are...Read More
Jun 2, 2016
CNS Awards Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship
The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) has awarded its first Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship to senior Valeria Gonzalez. The electrical engineering major is already participating in research, and she is the first student to receive the $10,000 scholarship offered by CNS to encourage diversity and...Read More
Jun 2, 2016
CSE Students Pack First-Ever Triton Gaming Expo
Some 325 undergraduates majoring in Computer Science or Computer Engineering were among the more than 1,200 registered attendees at the first-ever Triton Gaming Expo (TGEX). The 2016 event took place May 22 from 11am to 10pm in the Price Center Ballrooms. After CSE, the next largest cohorts were...Read More
May 19, 2016
NSF CAREER Award to Fund Multiplane Data Center Network Research and Education
University of California San Diego computer scientist George Porter is among the latest recipients of Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The funding agency has earmarked nearly $700,000 for a four-year project on the topic, "A Scalable...Read More
May 19, 2016
CSE Alumnus/Postdoc Accepts Faculty Position in North Carolina
Hung-Wei Tseng is a postdoctoral researcher whose CSE bio online notes that he is "looking for a tenure-track faculty job." Well, now he has one. The CSE alumnus (Ph.D. '14) has just accepted a faculty position at North Carolina State University. According to his thesis advisor, CSE Prof. Dean...Read More
May 13, 2016
CSE Faculty Welcome White House National Microbiome Initiative
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in collaboration with public- and private-sector stakeholders, rolled out a National Microbiome Initiative (NMI) on May 13. Its goal: to foster the integrated study of microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that live on and in...Read More
May 12, 2016
Milestone Reached by CSE Startup as Newspaper Features Mobile App
The headline in the Union-Tribune newspaper says it all: "App makes it easier for geeks to socialize at events." The headline sums up the latest startup of CSE Prof. Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou and former students, as the company reports a key milestone for the maker of an app to foster event engagement...Read More
May 11, 2016
UC San Diego Ranked #35 in Prestigious Global Ranking
According to the world's largest, invitation-only opinion survey of senior academics, UC San Diego is the #35 best university around the globe. Just out, the UK-based Times Higher Education Supplement released its World Reputation Rankings in early May. The campus's reputation climbed six spots...Read More
May 11, 2016
Honorable Mention to Bioinformatics Professor's Doctoral Dissertation
ECE Prof. Siavash Mirarab (left) is also a member of the joint Bioinformatics program with CSE and other UC San Diego departments (along with CSE faculty, including Vineet Bafna, Nuno Bandeira and Pavel Pevzner), so it's worth noting that he was a runner-up for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award....Read More
May 5, 2016
CSE Neuroengineer Tackles Consciousness, Neuromorphic Engineering and Machine Learning
Computer scientists are not often invited to present their research at The Science of Consciousness annual conference, but University of California San Diego development engineer Stephen Deiss did just that. He spoke to the meeting in Tucson, AZ, in late April on the subject of "Romancing the...Read More