Jun 5, 2017
CSE Students and Professors Stage Major Presence at SIGMOD 2017
CSE had a major presence at this year's ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), the premier venue for research in data management. The 2017 meeting took place in mid-May in Chicago jointly with PODS, the premier international conference on the theoretical aspects of database...Read More
Jun 4, 2017
CSE Alumnus Organizes First ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things
CSE alumnus Bharathan Balaji (Ph.D. '16) is now a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA, and he is trying to get the word out about a brand-new conference: the 1st ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings 2017). It's slated for November 5 at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in...Read More
Jun 2, 2017
Seniors Make Final Tweaks to CSE 125 Multiplayer Videogames
Team A42JS's game is a 3rd-person, cooperative, horror-themed survival gameIt's not often that the final project presentations of an undergraduate computer-science course attracts a standing-room-only audience of students and visitors from across campus. But that's par for the course when...Read More
Jun 1, 2017
CSE Professor Recognized Not Once, Not Twice, but Three Times in Year-End Honors
CSE Associate Teaching Professor Christine Alvarado is no stranger to winning awards, particularly for her teaching. But what's unusual is that starting June 3, she will be accepting not just one or two such awards, but three. The honors will come from the Tau Beta Pi honors engineering society,...Read More
May 30, 2017
Soft Robotics Glove to Interact with Virtual Reality Environments
Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics technology to make light, flexible gloves that allow users to feel tactile feedback when they interact with virtual reality environments. The researchers used the gloves to realistically simulate the tactile feeling of playing a virtual piano...Read More
May 25, 2017
A Race to Build the Smartest Rover
Computer Science alumnus Alex Smith (B.S. '16) may have graduated, but he's still spending most of his time on campus as part of the effort he co-founded, Yonder Dynamics, in fall 2015 with History major Kirk Hutchison. Today more than 40 students from multiple departments are spending all of their...Read More
May 24, 2017
Nanopore Technology Makes Leap from DNA Sequencing to Identifying Proteins
In the May issue of PLOS Computational Biology, scientists from UC San Diego and the University of Notre Dame report on a study* that could open up the field for nanopore-based protein identification – and eventually proteomic profiling of large numbers of proteins in complex mixtures of different...Read More
May 23, 2017
CSE Professor Lobbies Congress to Save Research Funding for Grad Students
With a major new project approved but put on hold in light of the Trump Administration's plan to cut back research spending, CSE professor George Porter has taken it upon himself to lobby San Diego representatives on Capitol Hill to limit the damage. As reported in The Triton, an independent,...Read More
May 22, 2017
Researchers Find Computer Code that Volkswagen Used to Cheat Emissions Tests
An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanism that allowed Volkswagen to circumvent U.S. and European emission tests over at least six years before the Environmental Protection Agency put the company on notice in 2015 for violating the Clean Air Act. During a year-long...Read More
May 17, 2017
CSE Alumnus Leverages Machine Learning to Help Companies (and Hometown) Grow
UC San Diego computer science alumnus Matthew Der (Ph.D. '15) was one of the few fresh graduates from the Computer Science and Engineering department who did not opt to work for a West Coast technology giant like Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook or Google (where he did two summer internships during...Read More