Jan 30, 2017
'Mathematician and Computer Scientist Extraordinaire'
That's what the UC San Diego Guardian student newspaper called Computer Science and Engineering assistant teaching professor Mia Minnes in a profile and interview with Timothy Deng, published on January 30. Born in Israel, Minnes moved at age 7 with her familty to Vancouver, and went on to get...Read More
Jan 28, 2017
New York Times Echoes UC San Diego View of What's Needed for Leadership in Robotics
A top technology columnist for the New York Times, Farhad Manjoo, this week published a manifesto about America's declining position as a world leader in robotics. In doing so, he turned to a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of California San Diego to make the case for why...Read More
Jan 27, 2017
CNS Invites Applications for Second Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship; Feb. 6 Deadline
The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) in UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering is once again looking for an undergraduate student who is interested in networked systems – and also active in supporting the LGBT community. “Our goal is to use this scholarship to further boost diversity and...Read More
Jan 26, 2017
Campus Convenes Data Sciences and Analytics Faculty Forums; Next Set for January 30
On Tuesday, January 24, UC San Diego interim executive vice chancellor Peter Cowhey convened the first of two faculty forums. The goal: to give faculty across campus a say in developing a university-wide Data Science Initiative. The second of the two Data Sciences and Analytics Faculty Forums is...Read More
Jan 25, 2017
New Professor Makes Forbes Short List of Top Scientists Under 30
In her first year as an assistant professor at the University of California San Diego, Melissa Gymrek is already bringing honor to the institution. In its 2017 roster of top-notch young scientists, Forbes magazine included Gymrek among its top 30 researchers in the Science category under age 30....Read More
Jan 24, 2017
CSE Researchers Collaborate with Scripps, QI on Underwater Robot Swarm to Study Ocean Life
Underwater robots developed by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography with the involvement of faculty from the Computer Science and Engineering department as well as Calit2's Qualcomm Institute (QI) are offering scientists an extraordinary new tool to study ocean currents and the...Read More
Jan 23, 2017
UC San Diego Center at NSDI 2017: Innovating in Networked Systems
Researchers affiliated with the Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California San Diego have been selected to present some of their most up-to-date research at the 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2017). CNS co-director George...Read More
Jan 22, 2017
CSE Alumnus Invites Ph.D. Students to Apply for Machine Learning Summer Internships at Amazon
Amazon logoAmazon is making a special effort in its search for Ph.D. students eager to work on real-world data sets motivated by business questions, as well as "exciting and challenging machine learning problems." The central machine-learning team at Amazon, through a CSE alumnus in machine...Read More
Jan 19, 2017
CSE Faculty Affiliate Uses Drones to Gauge Damage from Seismic Aftermath
If the prospect of a mega-earthquake has you quaking — fear not, because UC San Diego engineers are making sure our world will withstand the rumble. And in addition to using the world’s largest outdoor shake table, researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering also turned to drones to capture the...Read More
Jan 13, 2017
Teaching Computers to Recognize Sick Guts: Machine Learning and the Microbiome
A new proof-of-concept study by computer scientists and other researchers at UC San Diego succeeded in training computers to “learn” what a healthy versus an unhealthy gut microbiome looks like based on its genetic makeup. Since this can be done by genetically sequencing fecal samples, the research...Read More