Apr 4, 2017
Recent Computer Science Faculty Hire Joins Center for Networked Systems
Arun Kumar Works on Advanced Analytics at Intersection of Data Management and Machine Learning On April 3, Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) assistant professor Arun Kumar began teaching his first undergraduate course since joining the UC San Diego faculty in 2016. CSE 190D covers topics in...Read More
Apr 3, 2017
CSE Hosts Computer Science Education Conference at UC San Diego
The Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges - Southwestern Region (CCSC-SW) is a regional organization for computer science education research, undergraduate research, and local collaborations. The consortium’s major activity is an annual conference every spring, and the 10th CCSC...Read More
Mar 30, 2017
Computer Scientists Honored for 'Tracing' Research That Stood 10-Year Test of Time
Faculty from UC San Diego, Brown University, and UC Berkeley Share in Networked Systems Award At the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) this week in Boston, Mass., a team of researchers accepted an award for the most influential paper among those presented a...Read More
Mar 28, 2017
CSE Involvement in Bermuda 100 Challenge to Digitally Preserve Historic Shipwrecks
What if you could go on a digital dive to experience shipwrecks and other maritime heritage? Diver moves sand away from the Mary Celestia shipwreck prior to scanning the site for a 3D computer model. (Photo by Chris Burville) Watch a 3D video flythrough of the wreck site.This is exactly what a...Read More
Mar 27, 2017
Rajesh Gupta Honored with Appointment to French National Institute
INRIA, the French national institute for computer science and applied mathematics, has created a new International Chair and appointed American computer engineer Rajesh Gupta to the part-time position. Gupta is a professor and former chair of the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department in...Read More
Mar 27, 2017
CSE Alumnus and Lecturer Taner Halicioglu Makes $75 Million Gift for Data Science at UC San Diego
Facebook pioneeer will establish the Halicioglu Institute for Data Science at UC San Diego As a child, CSE alumnus Taner Halicioglu (B.S. '96) discovered how things worked by dissecting electronic equipment—it could be a radio or walkie talkie, and even a TV at one point. At UC San Diego, the self...Read More
Mar 24, 2017
Industrial Robotics Growth in China and Asia Far Outpace U.S. Growth Rate
CSE professor Henrik Christensen, director of the Contextual Robotics Institute at UC San Diego, testified March 16 in front of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a bipartisan group that monitors and investigates the national security implications of the bilateral trade and...Read More
Mar 23, 2017
Cyber-Archaeology Virtual Reality Hackathon
Organized by the student-run Virtual Reality Club at UC San Diego with support from the Qualcomm Institute-based Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability (CCAS), the Cyber-Archaeology VR hackathon invites participation by graduate and undergraduate students from CSE and other departments on...Read More
Mar 21, 2017
Using Batteries to Cut Utility Costs
CNS postdoctoral researcher Alper Sinan Akyurek developed an algorithm for controlling batteries that can decrease the utility cost of an actual building by up to 50 percent compared to a building powered without the use of batteries. Alper Sinan Akyurek is a postdoc in CNS and the Systems Energy...Read More
Mar 19, 2017
CSE Alumni, Students Launch Kickstarter Campaign for Smart Mirror
UC San Diego CSE alumnus Noah Martin (B.S. ’16) got his start in hackathons as an undergraduate majoring in computer engineering. Together with three of his fellow students in CSE, Martin shared in the prize for Best iOS Hack for ezTouch, an app to lock and unlock your computer from anywhere, at...Read More