Jan 8, 2016
CSE Undergrads Eligible to Compete for Proof of Concept; Deadline Friday, January 15
Have an idea for a new app, gadget or other solution to a problem? Computer science and computer engineering students should be in a strong position to compete with other UC San Diego undergraduates in the university’s first Undergraduate Proof of Concept Competition. The deadline for submissions...Read More
Jan 8, 2016
Magazine Honors CSE Alumna Among 30 Under 30 in Science
Forbes magazine went looking for young science researchers who are already making waves as twenty-somethings, and the magazine’s editors included one recent CSE graduate on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the sciences: Sarah Guthals (Ph.D., ’14), pictured at left. The 27-year-old CSE alumna was...Read More
Jan 4, 2016
CSE Alumnus Keynotes RoboUniverse Conference
In mid-December, CSE alumnus Charles Bergan (right) delivered the opening keynote speech at RoboUniverse, a conference and expo in San Diego. The conference focused on robots, drones and the Internet of Everything, and Bergan's talk was titled "The Robotics Revolution." A VP of Engineering in...Read More
Dec 17, 2015
Deadline Looms for Applications to Fill CSE Assistant Professor Positions
A key deadline is looming for potential candidates interested in joining the Computer Science and Engineering faculty as Assistant Professors. The deadline is January 1, 2016 for "full consideration," although the jobs will remain open until filled, with a final deadline of June 6. According to...Read More
Dec 17, 2015
CISA3 'Stands Out' for Resaearch on Cultural Heritage Engineering at 2015 Digital Heritage Conference
By Micah Siegel San Diego, Calif., Dec. 17, 2015 — The city of Granada, Spain is steeped in cultural heritage: home to the Alhambra and to world-famous Moorish and Morisco architecture, it is a perennial destination for tourists and sightseers. But for five days this past fall, the city also...Read More
Nov 20, 2015
UC San Diego team takes 4th place in regional programming competition
By Ioana Patringenaru San Diego, Calif., Nov. 20, 2015 — A team of UC San Diego computer science students tied with seven other campuses for first place in the 2015 ACM Southern California Regional Programming Contest on Nov. 14. The tie was finally resolved based on the time it took to solve...Read More
Nov 9, 2015
This New Method Identifies Up to Twice as Many Proteins and Peptides in Mass Spectrometry Data
By Ioana Patringenaru San Diego, Calif., Nov. 9, 2015 — An international team of researchers developed a method that identifies up to twice as many proteins and peptides in mass spectrometry data than conventional approaches. The method can be applied to a range of fields, including clinical...Read More
Oct 29, 2015
Mining Microbiomes: Chancellor Announces New Campus-wide Microbiome and Microbial Sciences Initiative
By Heather Buschman San Diego, Calif., Oct. 29, 2015 — You are only 10 percent human. Ninety percent of the cells that make up our bodies are actually bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes. And researchers are now finding that these unique microbial communities — called microbiomes — can...Read More
Oct 29, 2015
UC San Diego Launches Robotics Institute
By Daniel Kane San Diego, Calif., Oct. 29, 2015 — The Jacobs School of Engineering and Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego have launched the Contextual Robotics Institute to develop safe and useful robotics systems. These robotics systems will function in the...Read More
Oct 13, 2015
Computer Scientist Receives Prestigious Award for Operating Systems Research
San Diego, Calif., Oct. 13, 2015 — Computer scientist Yuanyuan “YY” Zhou from the University of California, San Diego, received the prestigious SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award during a ceremony Oct. 5. She was recognized “for innovative and creative contributions to detecting and recovering from defects...Read More