Jun 29, 2017
High-Tech Baby Monitor Company Cofounded by Alumnus Raises $4MN
Cocoon Cam, a computer-vision-based baby monitor company co-founded by CSE alumnus Pavan Kumar (M.S. Computer Science '15), recently announced that it closed a $4 million Series A funding round. Cocoon Cam makes baby monitors that rely on computer vision technologies to track breathing and other...Read More
Jun 28, 2017
CSE Ph.D. Candidate Accepts Tenure-Track Faculty Position at University of Illinois
When he graduated from China’s Nanjing University, Tianyin Xu was turned down by 24 graduate schools in the United States. The following year he applied and was accepted into the Ph.D. program at the University of California San Diego. Now, almost six years later, Xu is finishing his Ph.D. this...Read More
Jun 26, 2017
Ph.D. Candidate Defends Dissertation on Precise Type Checking for JavaScript
CSE Ph.D. candidate Panagiotis Vekris (M.S. '14) has spent nearly six years doing graduate research on programming languages, program analysis, as well as verification and type systems. Now he is preparing for the final defense of his dissertation on "Precise Type Checking for JavaScript." It's...Read More
Jun 23, 2017
CSE Professor Welcomes New Partnership with Tech San Diego
There's a new office in San Diego to help find more interns and full-time employees for technology companies from among students in college or getting ready to graduate. The non-profit organization Tech San Diego announced June 22 that it is boosting regional talent efforts by hiring a director for...Read More
Jun 22, 2017
CSE Searching for Important Trend in Theory for January Event at UC San Diego
CSE Prof. Shachar Lovett is eliciting recommendations for a topical subject on which to organize a workshop or winter school to be held in January 2018. Since 2014 Lovett has organized an annual meeting for the Theory community in CSE and beyond. The first workshop focused on complexity and coding...Read More
Jun 22, 2017
Student Teams Develop Virtual Reality Programs to Showcase VR Technology Devices
Elegant Japanese dojo is the setting of the cooperative game "Fruit Samurai VR" as players toss fruit for another player to slice with a katana sword (for points).For their final projects of the quarter, students in CSE Adjunct Professor Jurgen Schulze's Virtual Reality Technology (CSE 190) course...Read More
Jun 21, 2017
At a Glance, CSE Ph.D. Alumni Have Impressive Presence at International Conference
It's a picture worth the proverbial thousand words, but we'll try to tell the story in fewer (words). In late March, researchers from around the world converged on Lausanne, Switzerland, for Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), the leading European event for electronic system design and...Read More
Jun 19, 2017
Fine-Grained Connections between Exponential and Polynomial Time
CSE Ph.D. candidate Stefan Schneider is preparing for his upcoming Final Defense of his dissertation on "Fine-Grained Connections between Exponential and Polynomial Time." On July 3, Schneider will face a committee chaired by his advisor Mohan Paturi, other CSE professors Sanjoy Dasgupta, Russell...Read More
Jun 19, 2017
Doctoral Candidate Defends Thesis on Learning Information from Data While Preserving Differential Privacy
CSE Ph.D. candidate Zhanglong Ji (M.S. '13) -- whose research interests include data privacy, machine learning, statistics and data mining -- is scheduled to defend his doctoral dissertation this Friday. The topic: "Learning Information from Data while Preserving Differential Privacy." The panel...Read More
Jun 13, 2017
CSE Announces Two Faculty Hires (with More to Come)
2017 is shaping up to be another banner year for hiring faculty in one of the fastest-growing departments on the campus of the University of California San Diego. Professor Dean Tullsen, Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department, announced the first two hires of the faculty...Read More