Jan 17, 2018
CSE Alumnus from Oracle Addresses Database Researchers at UC San Diego
An early alumnus of the Computer Science and Engineering department will be back on campus Friday, January 19 to address faculty and students involved in the regular Database seminar in CSE, and then participate in a Student Roundtable Chat afterwards. Shasank Chavan, VP, OracleShasank Chavan, who...Read More
Jan 16, 2018
CSE Alumnus’s Startup Shows Tech Takeovers Happen Even in Smaller Markets
Just because he’s not in Silicon Valley or San Diego doesn’t mean that CSE alumnus Matthew Der (M.S., Ph.D. ’13, ’15) couldn’t work for a dynamic startup that would attract a blue-chip takeover. That’s exactly what happened to Notch, Co., a tech consulting firm in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia...Read More
Jan 13, 2018
Authorities Release UC San Diego Student Who Inadvertently Crossed Border with Mexico
A UC San Diego senior majoring in Mathematics-Computer Science spent five days in detention at the U.S.-Mexico border after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities detained the student. UC San Diego senior Orr Yakobi (right) with his attorney Jacob Supochnick after Yakobi's release...Read More
Jan 13, 2018
Computer Science Major Honored for Undergraduate Research in Applied Cryptography
Computer Science major Julia Len recently got word that she was a recipient of a prestigious award honoring outstanding undergraduate researchers. The awards are given annually by the Computing Research Association (CRA) to undergrads at North American universities who show "outstanding research...Read More
Jan 12, 2018
U.S. and Japanese Research Institutions Sign Bilateral Memorandum of Understanding
The University of California San Diego and Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have forged a new, five-year pact to cooperate on research in the fields of computer science and technology. Philip Papadopoulos (left) and Satoshi Sekiguchi sign MOU between...Read More
Jan 8, 2018
Alumnus at Amazon Encourages Ph.D. Students to Apply for ML Internships
CSE alumnus Sheeraz AhmadCSE alumnus Sheeraz Ahmad (Ph.D. ’15) focused on machine learning and its application in learning and decision-making problems faced by humans and artificial agents. Since graduation, he has been up in Redmond, WA, at Amazon, where he is a Research Scientist working on…...Read More
Dec 18, 2017
Strong UC San Diego CSE Presence at Machine Learning Conference
Faculty and students report on research in CSE, ECE, Psychology and Cognitive Science Part of the poster for NIPS 2017 in Long Beach, CAThe 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) took place December 4-9 in Long Beach, CA. NIPS is the largest annual machine learning...Read More
Dec 15, 2017
CSE Alumni and Faculty Cofounders of Tortuga Logic Get Infusion of Capital
Tortuga Logic co-founder Ryan Kastner, also sits on the company's Board of Advisors.A company co-founded by CSE professor Ryan Kastner and two CSE alumni is now positioned for new growth thanks to an infusion of capital from a venture-capital firm. The hardware security company Tortuga Logic just...Read More
Dec 14, 2017
New UC San Diego Chapter Sends LGBT+ Delegates to oSTEM National Conference
Five undergrads, two faculty attend meeting to promote LGBT+ diversity in STEM fields For the first time, a delegation of faculty and students from the University of California San Diego attended the annual Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM) National Conference. The...Read More
Dec 12, 2017
Computer Scientists Develop Simple Tool to Detect Website Data Breach
Computer scientists have built and successfully tested a tool designed to detect when websites are hacked by monitoring the activity of email accounts associated with them. The researchers were surprised to find that almost 1 percent of the websites they tested had suffered a data breach during...Read More