Dec 8, 2020
Do you have a deep mind for machine learning? Become a DeepMind Fellow for 2021-22
UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) is encouraging students interested in machine learning to apply for the DeepMind Fellowship program, launched earlier this year with a generous gift from DeepMind, a London-based leader in artificial intelligence (AI) research and how...Read More
Nov 24, 2020
Eustaquio Aguilar Ruiz Named Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship Recipient
Eustaquio Aguilar Ruiz, a senior majoring in physics with a specialization in computational physics, has received the 2020-2021 Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship from UC San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS). This is the fifth year that CNS has recognized a student majoring in programs...Read More
Nov 16, 2020
Meet the Deep Minds of UC San Diego’s CSE
By Katie E. Ismael UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) is proud to announce the inaugural class of DeepMind Fellows. These fellowships were made possible by a recent generous gift from DeepMind, a London-based leader in artificial intelligence (AI) research and how...Read More
Oct 21, 2020
We are building a more inclusive and equitable community at the Jacobs School of Engineering
Diversity is essential to innovation. The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has launched a Student and Faculty Racial Equity Task Force and is building on campus-wide initiatives as it works to ensure that all engineering and computer science students, faculty and staff can thrive and...Read More
Oct 15, 2020
CSE’s Christine Alvarado Receives NSF Grant to Study Equity in Computer Science Education
By Josh Baxt UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Professor Christine Alvarado and colleagues at three other Southern California schools have received a $1.3 million National Science Foundation grant to investigate how gender, ethnicity and other factors impact people who want to...Read More
Oct 13, 2020
Alum Joseph Jaeger (Ph.D. ’19) Captures Crypto 2020 Award
By Josh Baxt After earning his Ph.D. last year, Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) alumnus Joseph Jaeger has gone on to a postdoc appointment at the University of Washington and earned accolades with a Best Paper by Early Career Researchers Award at Crypto 2020. The paper, Handling Adaptive...Read More
Oct 8, 2020
CSE Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
Four new faculty members will be joining the community of distinguished scholars and teachers at the UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department over the next two academic years. “I am pleased to welcome these new faculty members who will join the ranks of acclaimed CSE faculty...Read More
Oct 2, 2020
UC San Diego COVID-19 Forecast Now Part of CDC Model
A computational model that forecasts the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States as a whole and in each state developed by a team of researchers from UC San Diego and Northeastern University is now part of the national mortality forecast issued by the Centers for Disease Control. UC San...Read More
Oct 2, 2020
CSE Research Leads to New Understanding of Ultralong Antibodies That Could Advance Vaccine Research
The human body recombines different genes to make millions of disease-fighting antibodies. This genetic mixing and matching is essential to produce perfectly configured molecules that seek out and destroy dangerous pathogens. As a result, each of us has around 100 million antibodies circulating...Read More
Sep 24, 2020
DeepMind Gift Will Give a Boost to Machine Learning Graduate Students and Diversity Efforts at UC San Diego CSE
By Katie E. Ismael UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) graduate students who are studying machine learning will receive additional support thanks to a generous gift from DeepMind, a London-based company leading artificial intelligence research and how it’s applied in the real...Read More