Feb 21, 2016
CSE Sophomore Wants to Design and Implement Software Solutions
Another CSE student highlighted in the Jacobs School's #ILookLikeAnEngineer social-media campaign in February is Paul Epperson. A computer-science major and Regents Scholar in his second year, Epperson expects to graduate in 2018. He says he chose engineering at UC San Diego "because I wanted to be...Read More
Feb 21, 2016
Computer Engineering Major Leads Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Chapter
Alejandro (Alex) Buitimea, a computer-engineering major who expects to graduate in 2017, is the current president of the UC San Diego chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). He is also the latest student to be featured in the Jacobs School of Engineering's #...Read More
Feb 18, 2016
Google Selects CSE Professor and Alumni for Faculty Research Awards
Google has announced two new Google Faculty Research Awards to CSE alumni and one to CSE Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi. It is Ramamoorthi's second such award, after receiving one in 2014 while he was still at UC Berkeley (just months before he joined the CSE faculty at UC San Diego). The program received...Read More
Feb 16, 2016
Alumnus Daniel Hsu Among '10 to Watch' in Artificial Intelligence
CSE alumnus Daniel Hsu, who earned his Ph.D. in Machine Learning in 2010 from UC San Diego, is now on the computer-science faculty at Columbia University, and he has received a rare honor. Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), and Hsu was just named one of "AI's 10 to Watch...Read More
Feb 15, 2016
Longtime Staffer Sets Ambitious Goal
CSE contracts and grants administrator Cheryl Hile was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2006. Now she has embarked on an ambitious plan to become the first person with MS to run seven marathons on seven continents in a single year. At the time of her diagnosis, Hile's neurologist urged...Read More
Feb 13, 2016
Recent CSE Alumnus to Receive Dissertation Award at DATE 2016
A recent graduate of CSE's doctoral program has won the top dissertation award in his category. The jury of the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) selected Abbas Rahimi for the Outstanding Dissertations Award 2015 in the area of new directions in embedded system design and embedded...Read More
Feb 12, 2016
Gravitational Wave Discovery Echoes CSE Professor's 1975 Dissertation
In his doctoral dissertation at the University of Texas, Austin in 1975, CSE professor Larry Smarr developed a computational method for solving Albert Einstein’s equations of general relativity. Smarr’s PhD thesis, “The Structure of General Relativity with a Numerical Illustration: The Collision of...Read More
Feb 8, 2016
CSE Team Targets Record Turnout for Triton 5K Race
It's never too early to start planning for Alumni Weekend on the UC San Diego campus. One highlight is the 20th annual Triton 5K race, scheduled for 9am on Sunday, April 10. The starting line is at North Point Lane in front of the Spanos Athletic Training Facility. CSE students, staff, alumni and...Read More
Feb 4, 2016
Women in Machine Learning Profile CSE Professor
On February 3, the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) organization profiled CSE Prof. Kamalika Chaudhuri on its Facebook page. The Feb. 3 article notes that her research is on "the theoretical foundations of machine learning, and she works on designing machine learning [ML] algorithms with rigorous...Read More
Feb 1, 2016
Modifying the Microbial Makeup of C-Section Babies
Professor Rob Knight has appointments in both CSE and Pediatrics, and the microbiome expert led a small pilot study that could have repercussions for expectant mothers -- especially those whose children were delivered by C-section. In the study published on February 1 in the journal Nature Medicine...Read More