Feb 15, 2022
Deian Stefan Receives Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship to Develop Secure Systems
By Josh Baxt UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Deian Stefan has been honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Stefan will receive $75,000 during the two-year fellowship to advance his work on browser security. Stefan is the third UC San Diego...Read More
Feb 9, 2022
Educating the Next Generation of Data Scientists, Virtually
By Katie E. Ismael The University of California San Diego is launching its first online graduate degree program this fall to help meet the demand for data scientists as companies across all sectors seek to leverage vast amounts of data into meaningful insights. Applications for the new Master...Read More
Feb 4, 2022
A Mega Achievement: Two UC San Diego Students Named 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellows
By Katie E. Ismael The University of California San Diego boasts two of this year’s 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellows—37scholars selected from a pool of 2,300 applicants worldwide. As fellows, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) PhD students Stewart Grant and Kabir Nagrecha will...Read More
Feb 2, 2022
Change Makers of CSE: KC Claffy (PhD ’94) and the Evolving Internet
Kimberly (KC) Claffy had just completed her PhD in UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering when she noticed a problem: internet measurement data for scientific research might not always be available. The problem showed up soon after she graduated in 1994 when NSFNET, the...Read More
Jan 25, 2022
From Coffee Cart to Educational Computing Platform
By Daniel Kane In classic UC San Diego fashion, an overheard conversation at a campus coffee cart has turned into an interdisciplinary project that's making computing-intensive coursework more exciting while saving well over one million dollars so far. The effort—now being used in numerous...Read More
Jan 21, 2022
UC San Diego Receives $14M to Drive Precision Nutrition with Gut Microbiome Data
By Scott LaFee The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s All of Us Research Program is a national effort to build a large, diverse database of 1 million or more people whom researchers can use to study health and disease. The NIH is now awarding $170 million in grant funding to centers across...Read More
Jan 19, 2022
Two UC San Diego Computer Scientists Named as 2021 ACM Fellows
By Katie E. Ismael Two computer scientists from the University of California San Diego have been elected as fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the association announced today. They are among the 71 new fellows recognized by the ACM, the world’s largest educational and...Read More
Jan 13, 2022
Computers in a Jazz Ensemble? Inventing Improvisational AI
By Josh Baxt Go to any jazz club and watch the musicians. Their performances are dynamic and improvisational; they’re inventing as they go along, having entire conversations through their instruments. Can we give computers the same capabilities? To answer that question, University of...Read More
Jan 4, 2022
Long-Reads and Powerful Algorithms Identify “Invisible” Microbes
By Josh Baxt Microbes are everywhere – in our guts, on our skin, permeating the environments around us. Studying these microbial communities has delivered tremendous insights into disease and good health, but identifying all the distinct species in a sample can be challenging. Now, a study by...Read More
Dec 20, 2021
Router in Your Home Might Intercept Your Internet Traffic-But it May be For Your Own Good
The router in your home might be intercepting some of your Internet traffic and sending it to a different destination. Specifically, the router can intercept the Domain Name System traffic --the communications used to translate human-readable domain names (for example www.google.com) into the...Read More