Dec 11, 2017
Three UC San Diego Computer Scientists Elevated to Be ACM Fellows in Class of 2017
Three computer scientists from the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego have been elected Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. Clockwise from top left: CSE professors...Read More
Dec 7, 2017
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Candidate Tackles VLSI Layout Design Automation
CSE Ph.D. candidate Ilgweon Kang is preparing for the final defense of his doctoral dissertation, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 10am in CSE room 3109. His dissertation on "Floorplan Representation, Global Placement and Routability Analysis for VLSI Layout Design Automation" is in...Read More
Dec 7, 2017
CSE Alumna Teaches Undergrads to Teach the Joy of Coding
A group of high school students are huddled over one smart phone, poking at the screen and laughing. But in this class at the Preuss School UCSD they’re not being disruptive —they’re actually testing a game app for smartphones that they programmed themselves. CSE alumna Sarah Guthals (Ph.D. '14)...Read More
Dec 7, 2017
CSE and Pediatrics Professor Makes Semifinals for Women’s Safety XPRIZE
CSE and Pediatrics assistant professor Debashis Sahoo develops computational models for human cancer and uses them to predict important biomarkers and therapeutic targets. But he is also raising hopes in a very different area. CSE and Pediatrics professor Debashis SahooThe UC San Diego professor...Read More
Nov 30, 2017
University of Maryland Computer Scientist Talks Revocations in CNS Lecture Series
The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) closed out its lecture series for calendar 2017 with a talk by University of Maryland computer science professor Dave Levin on Monday, Dec. 4. In his talk titled "Revocation Are Dead, Long Live Revocations", Levin explored the importance of the web's public...Read More
Nov 30, 2017
Final Defense of Dissertation on Statistical Representations of Microbial Systems
With the growth in research on the human microbiome at UC San Diego and its creation of the Center for Microbiome Research in the Jacobs School of Engineering, one of the first CSE Ph.D. graduates of the program gave his final defense of his doctoral dissertation on Nov. 30. Ph.D. candidate Yoshiki...Read More
Nov 26, 2017
CSE Professor Elected IEEE Fellow in Class of 2018
CSE Professor Tajana Rosing has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She is one of five Jacobs School of Engineering faculty members elevated to be part of the IEEE Fellows class of 2018. (Others include ECE’s Massimo Franceschetti and David Whelan...Read More
Nov 21, 2017
Neural Nets on the (Fashion) Runway
Researchers from the University of California San Diego and Adobe Research have demonstrated how artificial intelligence and neural networking could one day go beyond making recommendations about what fashion to buy, to helping retailers and apparel makers design bespoke clothing for consumers...Read More
Nov 17, 2017
CSE Researchers Help Scripps Scientists Document and Model Coral Reefs for 100 Island Challenge
In a study published recently in the journal Coral Reefs, scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography created and analyzed detailed photomosaics of the coral reef at Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Led by Scripps coral-reef ecology Ph.D. student Clinton Edwards, the team canvassed more...Read More
Nov 16, 2017
Cybersecurity Expert Accepts Test-of-Time Award for Introducing Return-Oriented Programming
At the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2017) in early November, University of California San Diego professor Hovav Shacham was recognized for a paper he presented 10 years earlier that introduced the field of “return-oriented programming.” CSE professor Hovav...Read More