Apr 12, 2022
Yuanyuan Zhou Honored for Bug Work
By Josh Baxt In 2008, multicore processors, in which two or more processing units are embedded into an integrated circuit, were exploding in popularity. However, multicores spawned their own unique programming challenges. University of California San Diego computer scientist Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou...Read More
Apr 5, 2022
Changemakers of CSE: Daniel Kane Takes on Intricate Puzzles
By Josh Baxt With joint appointments in UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering and Mathematics departments, Associate Professor Daniel Kane straddles the line between both disciplines. But for Kane, computer science offers some unique opportunities. “The main difference I see is that...Read More
Apr 1, 2022
CSE Rises in New U.S. News and World Report Best Engineering School Rankings
By Katie E. Ismael UC San Diego’s graduate program in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is ranked #11 in the newest U.S. News and World Report Graduate Program Rankings. UC San Diego has risen to its 11th spot in 2022 from #30 in 1994. And according to CSrankings.org, a metrics-based...Read More
Mar 31, 2022
Researchers Assemble the First Complete Human Genome
By Josh Baxt Two decades after the Human Genome Project produced a draft sequence, an international research team, including University of California San Diego computer scientists, has published the first complete genome. The work was done by the Telomere to Telomere (T2T) consortium, and six...Read More
Mar 29, 2022
The Power of Bugs
By Josh Baxt Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego are showing how soil microbes can be harnessed to fuel low-power sensors. This opens new possibilities for microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which can power soil hydration sensors and other devices. Led by Department of...Read More
Mar 24, 2022
There’s an Org for That
By Katie E. Ismael Soon after last fall quarter began and the campus was showing signs of prepandemic life, the leaders of the Graduate Women in Computing or GradWIC at UC San Diego thought it would be helpful for the new students to become acclimated to their unfamiliar surroundings and to the...Read More
Mar 4, 2022
New, Highly Accurate Algorithm Scales Ability to Assemble Complete Genomes
By Josh Baxt An international team led by researchers at University of California San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering has shown that a new genome assembly algorithm, called the La Jolla Assembler (LJA), vastly improves large genomes reconstruction, the process by which...Read More
Feb 28, 2022
PhD Student Receives Prestigious Adobe Research Fellowship to Improve Interactive Machines
By Josh Baxt Bodhisattwa (Bodhi) Prasad Majumder, a UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) PhD student, has been honored with an Adobe Research Fellowship. The fellowships are only awarded to about ten people each year, and Majumder is the third CSE graduate student...Read More
Feb 23, 2022
Meet CSE’s Newest Postdoc Fellows
By Katie E. Ismael This year’s class of CSE Fellows in UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) includes post-PhD researchers from Canada, Italy and France. The diverse group of scholars was selected for the second cohort of the CSE Fellows Program, which was...Read More
Feb 17, 2022
Barna Saha and the Golden Road to UC San Diego
By any measure or metric, the road from Siliguri, a small town outside Darjeeling, India, to UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is a long one. At one end, the road lacks infrastructure. Education opportunities are limited. At the other, a world-class university...Read More