Nov 29, 2016
CSE Professor Among Five New AAAS Fellows from UC San Diego
CSE Professor Larry Smarr is one of five faculty from the University of California San Diego awarded the distinction of fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Smarr, who is also director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology...Read More
Nov 29, 2016
Ph.D. Candidate Mounts Successful Dissertation Defense
On November 29, Ph.D. candidate Olivia Simpson faced her advisor and other members of her dissertation committee for the final defense of her doctorate in Computer Science. She debriefed the committee and took questions on the subject of her dissertation: "Local and Distributed Computation for...Read More
Nov 15, 2016
The Programmer, the Code and the Basement
In a rare article about the Computer Science and Engineering basement 'dungeon' full of computer-science labs, the UCSD Guardian newspaper on Nov. 13 ran a feature story about the experience of students who "slave away on CSE homework, a life-draining task." The scary language, however, segues into...Read More
Nov 14, 2016
SD Hacks Leaders Look Back at the Two-Year-Old Hackathon
The UC San Diego Office of Innovation and Commercialization is pushing hard to get more students involved in entrepreneurial efforts on campus, including via hackathons. To that end, the office's Lynsey Fitzpatrick interviewed two CSE students who developed the university's first major hackathon...Read More
Nov 14, 2016
CNS Scholarship Winner Gets First-Hand Insight into CS Pioneer Alan Turing
Valeria Gonzalez is the first recipient of the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship launched by UC San Diego's Center for Networked Systems (CNS), so she was excited when she learned that the nephew and biographer of the famous mathematician and pioneer in the fields of computer science and artificial...Read More
Nov 10, 2016
Learning Human Preferences and Perceptions From Data
A special seminar in Artificial Intelligence featured a talk Nov. 9 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Robert Nowak. He focused on "Learning Human Preferences and Perceptions from Data." CSE Prof. Kamalika Chaudhuri hosted the event. According to Nowak (pictured at right), modeling...Read More
Nov 5, 2016
Electing Tomorrow's 'Researchest' Area of Computer Science
On Friday, November 4, some CSE students got in the swing of things ahead of Tuesday's presidential election. CSE grad students were invited to attend an Election Day Social Hour along the theme "Make CSE Great Again, #StrongerTogether." The parties were not divided by political labels, but rather...Read More
Nov 2, 2016
CSE Professor Helps Direct Drone Research to Track Endangered Iguanas
CSE Prof. Ryan Kastner did not participate in the international expedition that sent fellow UC San Diego researchers to the Cayman Islands in connection with the Engineers for Exploration (E4E) program, which enlists students to build technologies to help scientists, conservationists and explorers...Read More
Nov 1, 2016
Best Paper Award Goes to Operating Systems Researchers
A team of current and former students of University of California San Diego Computer Science and Engineering professor Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou, together with a longtime industry collaborator, are the recipients of a Best Paper Award at the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and...Read More
Oct 31, 2016
DNA Day Features CSE Faculty, Alumni Speakers
Three professors affiliated with the Computer Science and Engineering department were among the speakers at the second DNA Day on October 28. Originally staged in 2015, the 2016 event was again organized by CSE Prof. Vineet Bafna along with Semyon Kruglyak at Illumina. The day-long workshop was co-...Read More