Jun 22, 2023
UC San Diego “Fallen Star” Team is a Rising Star in World-wide Programming Competition
By Kimberley Clementi UC San Diego engineering students Thomas Li, Stanislaw Strzelecki and Shang Zhou will represent the university this November at the 47th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The three-member team, competing as Fallen Star...Read More
Jun 20, 2023
CSE’s Alumni Advisory Board Honors the Class of 2023 and Supports Scholars
By Kimberley Clementi The Alumni Advisory Board (AAB) for UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department saluted the Class of 2023 in its first CSE Graduation Celebration for undergraduates. The event, aptly named “Debugging to the Finish Line,” was held June 16 in the courtyard...Read More
Jun 1, 2023
UC San Diego Associate Dean and Computer Scientist Christine Alvarado Named Paul R. Kube Endowed Chair
By Kimberley Clementi and Katie E. Ismael UC San Diego’s Christine Alvarado, the associate dean in UC San Diego’s Division of Undergraduate Education and a Teaching Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department, will hold the inaugural Paul R. Kube Endowed Chair of Computer...Read More
May 31, 2023
CSE Students Join Prestigious Circle of NSF Grad Research Fellows
By Kimberley Clementi 40 Nobel laureates. A former U.S. Secretary of Energy. A co-founder of Google. This prestigious circle of Graduate Research Fellows selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently grew by three UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) graduate...Read More
May 25, 2023
CNS in 2023: the Annual Research Review
By Kimberley Clementi The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) held its annual CNS Research Review at the UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Building on May 4 and 5. Now in its second decade, the invitation-only event introduced industry members from Cisco, Google, Qualcomm and eight...Read More
May 22, 2023
CSE’s CAREER Award Recipient List Grows by Three – Again
(Story updated Dec. 2023 to reflect the addition of professors Jingbo Shang and Hao Su) Two additional CSE faculty members, Jingbo Shang and Hao Su, have received the NSF CAREER award, making for a total of five recipients this year. Proving the Power of Extremely Weak Supervision Shang’s...Read More
May 15, 2023
UC San Diego Computer Scientists Have Distinguished Showing at ASPLOS 2023
By Katie E. Ismael and Kimberley Clementi From reclaiming the 1.5 billion smart phones deactivated annually to finding a new way to reduce browser security risks, UC San Diego computer scientists tackled big issues in two papers that were recognized recently at the 2023 Architectural Support for...Read More
May 10, 2023
Changemakers of CSE: Russell Impagliazzo Pursues Complexity and Comedy
By Josh Baxt and Katie E. Ismael Russell Impagliazzo, a longtime professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, is immersed in computational complexity, identifying how difficult it will be to solve specific problems on fast computers. On the side, he immerses himself...Read More
May 1, 2023
Supun Nakandala (PhD ’22) Wins SIGMOD Dissertation Award
By Kimberley Clementi UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering alumnus Supun Nakandala (PhD ’22) has been selected as winner of the Jim Gray Dissertation Award 2023 by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD). This prestigious award...Read More
Apr 24, 2023
CSE Faculty Recognized with Amazon Research Awards
By Kimberley Clementi Three faculty members from UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department were among the 79 Amazon Research Award recipients announced for the fall 2022 cycle. CSE Assistant Professor Sean Gao, who was also a 2021 awardee, was honored along with Associate...Read More