Feb 20, 2017
Recent Faculty Arrival Starts Teaching This Spring
CSE Assistant Professor Ndapa Nakashole joined the UC San Diego faculty in January, and she will start teaching in the spring quarter with a research-oriented graduate course on Advanced Statistical Natural Language Processing (CSE 291). The course website is now online. "A background in natural...Read More
Feb 19, 2017
Professor Inducted as Fellow at AAAS Annual Meeting
CSE Professor and Calit2 Director Larry Smarr was in Boston Feb. 18 for his induction to be a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is one of five faculty of the University of California San Diego elected in 2016 and inducted during the annual meeting of the...Read More
Feb 13, 2017
CSE Professor to Speak at Jacobs School Research Expo
Mark your calendars for Thursday, April 20. That's when the Jacobs School of Engineering will host Research Expo 2017. This year's event will include four faculty talks representing hot-button research topics, centers and labs. Computer Science and Engineering associate professor Laurel Riek will...Read More
Feb 12, 2017
CSE Alumnus Honored for Work on Object-Oriented Programming Languages
A University of California San Diego alumnus in Computer Science, Ross Tate (Ph.D. ’12), is one of two professors selected to receive the Dahl-Nygaard Prizes for 2017. The prizes are awarded annually by the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO). UC San Diego CSE alumnus...Read More
Feb 9, 2017
CSE Professor Receives Major Award from Computational Biology Society
The International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) has announced the winners of its top four awards for 2017, and leading the list is UC San Diego computer-science professor Pavel Pevzner. The Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award honors Pevzner's almost 30 years in the field of...Read More
Feb 7, 2017
Deadline for Students to Apply for Summer 2017 REU Program in Engineers for Exploration
University students have barely one week left to apply for a research internship at the University of California San Diego for summer 2017 to work on technologies that can be used by explorers in the lab or on field expeditions. Twelve students from the U.S., Brazil and China visit the San Diego...Read More
Feb 5, 2017
Diversity Award to Honor CSE Teaching Professor
On Wednesday, March 1, UC San Diego will hand out its 2016 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Diversity Awards at a ceremony in the Price Center West Ballroom. In the category of "university-wide individual recipients", one faculty member from the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department...Read More
Feb 2, 2017
Ph.D. Student Awarded 2017 Adobe Research Fellowship
University of California San Diego doctoral student C. Ailie Fraser has been awarded a 2017 Adobe Research Fellowship in only the second year of the company’s fellowship program. The third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is a researcher in the Design Lab at UC San Diego...Read More
Feb 2, 2017
Computer Science Student Honored with Microsoft Ph.D. Fellowship
Each year the research division of Microsoft awards Ph.D. fellowships to a handful of particularly deserving graduate students, and the competition is intense. Today Microsoft tapped University of California San Diego student Mengting Wan to receive the two-year fellowship that will cover all her...Read More
Feb 1, 2017
CSE Organizes in Response to Immigration Ban
An informal group of faculty and students from the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department will hold a second meeting on Thursday, February 9 in CSE Room 1202 from 3pm to 5pm, with CSE professor and chair Dean Tullsen in attendance. The meeting follows the first emergency meeting held on...Read More