Sep 28, 2017
CSE Faculty Front and Center in New UC San Diego-IBM Artificial Intelligence Center
IBM and the University of California San Diego have announced a multi-year project to enhance quality of life and independence for aging populations through the new Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Living Center (AIHL), located on the campus of UC San Diego. The groundbreaking center will bring...Read More
Sep 28, 2017
Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship Celebrates Diversity in Computer Science
Sothyrak (Tee) Srey’s voice fills with excitement when he recalls the day he learned he had been awarded the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship. “I woke up, saw the email, and couldn’t believe it,” he says. “I immediately called my mom. It was so exciting. I never thought I would be the one to earn...Read More
Sep 26, 2017
Computer Scientists Present Findings on Computer Vision and Object Detection at IROS 2017
Better methods for computer vision and object detection are among the innovations presented by CSE and other robotics researchers from UC San Diego at the 2017 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). The five-day conference ends September 28 in Vancouver, British Columbia...Read More
Sep 19, 2017
CSE Recruits 15 Lecturers to Help Teach Undergraduates in 2017-2018
According to CSE assistant teaching professor Mia Minnes, who chairs the department's recruiting committee for lecturers this year, CSE has lined up a stellar group of 15 lecturers to assume some of the undergraduate teaching duties not already covered by tenure-track and teaching professors as...Read More
Sep 15, 2017
Ph.D. Candidate to Defend Dissertation on Computational Methods to Study Genomic Structure and Structural Variation
CSE Ph.D. candidate Viraj Deshpande will stage the final defense of his doctoral dissertation on September 20 at 10am in room 1202 of the CSE building. The topic of his thesis: "Computational Methods to Study Genomic Structure and Structural Variation." Ph.D. candidate Viraj DeshpandeDeshpande is...Read More
Sep 12, 2017
Newspaper Features UC Responses to Demand for Data Science Education
The San Francisco Chronicle published a feature article on September 5 on how “universities rush to add data science majors as demand explodes.” In the article, writer Isha Salian notes that “UC San Diego is starting a data science undergraduate major and minor this fall.” She also reports that “UC...Read More
Sep 5, 2017
CSE Alumnus Works on Potential Road-Sign Threat to Self-Driving Cars
CSE alumnus Tadayoshi Kohno (Ph.D. ’06), now a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, is one of the authors behind a controversial new paper on “Robust Physical-World Attacks on Machine Learning Models.” CSE alumnus Yoshi KohnoKohno – an expert in computer...Read More
Sep 4, 2017
Times Higher Education Ranks UC San Diego #5 Best Public University in the World
UC San Diego has netted the #5 spot in the UK-based Times Higher Education ranking of the globe’s best public universities. The campus was named 31st overall among universities worldwide and the nation’s 20th best college based on quality of teaching, knowledge transfer, international outlook and...Read More
Sep 1, 2017
Coursera Promotes UC San Diego Online Courses in CS and Data Engineering
Two of Coursera's four top specializations in computer science and data engineering were developed with partners at UC San Diego.Here’s a sign of the times: When it sent out a list of four “top specializations” – each containing five or six courses in the area of computer science and data...Read More
Aug 28, 2017
NSF Funds CSE Professor to Model Human-Robot Teamwork in Uncertain Environments
Laurel Riek, associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego, will lead a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) project on new methods for coordinating teams of robots and people in complex, uncertain environments. The $750,000 award is...Read More