Jun 8, 2016
Computer Graphics and Vision Expert Appointed to Endowed Faculty Chair
University of California San Diego professor Ravi Ramamoorthi is the inaugural holder of a new endowed faculty chair in the university’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). The university has appointed Ramamoorthi to the Ronald L. Graham Chair of Computer Science. The chair is...Read More
Jun 8, 2016
'Commercial' Teases Longer Video about CSE 110 Web Enrollment Application
It's not often that a computer science and engineering team of students goes to the trouble of creating a video 'trailer' to promote a new web application (pictured at right). Using movie trailers for Hollywood blockbusters as a template, students from Team Super User Planner (SUP), one of 20...Read More
Jun 5, 2016
CSE and Design Lab Presence at CHI 2016
The Design Lab at UC San Diego was out in force last month for CHI 2016, the premier human-computer interaction (HCI) annual conference, and Computer Science and Engineering faculty and graduate students were among those on hand in San Jose. CSE faculty attending CHI included Scott Klemmer, Bill...Read More
Jun 3, 2016
CSE Ph.D. Student Accepts Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Johns Hopkins
As more postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. candidates make the rounds of universities in the market for new faculty in computer science, computer engineering or bioinformatics, another CSE soon-to-be-graduate is headed to do research and teach computer science at Johns Hopkins University. Peng (...Read More
Jun 3, 2016
Student Startup Seeks Support via Kickstarter Campaign
A team of CSE students working in a startup is now taking their next step with the launch of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. The startup, Giventure, calls itself "your personal assistant for volunteering”. Co-founded by Computer Science majors Sneha Jayaprakash (pictured at center with some...Read More
Jun 3, 2016
Tau Beta Pi Honors CSE Professor
The UC San Diego chapter of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honors society has selected the winners of its Faculty of the Year awards. For the 2015-16 academic year, members were asked to nominate faculty based not just on their teaching in the classroom, but also on their impact on the overall...Read More
Jun 2, 2016
CSE Students to Showcase Computer Graphics Projects
CSE lecturer Jurgen Schulze, a research scientist in the Qualcomm Institute’s visualization group, is expecting big things when some 120 students from CSE 167, Introduction to Computer Graphics, demonstrate their class projects next week in a two-stage set of demos. Members of the CSE community are...Read More
Jun 2, 2016
CNS Awards Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship
The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) has awarded its first Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship to senior Valeria Gonzalez. The electrical engineering major is already participating in research, and she is the first student to receive the $10,000 scholarship offered by CNS to encourage diversity and...Read More
Jun 2, 2016
CSE Students Pack First-Ever Triton Gaming Expo
Some 325 undergraduates majoring in Computer Science or Computer Engineering were among the more than 1,200 registered attendees at the first-ever Triton Gaming Expo (TGEX). The 2016 event took place May 22 from 11am to 10pm in the Price Center Ballrooms. After CSE, the next largest cohorts were...Read More
May 19, 2016
NSF CAREER Award to Fund Multiplane Data Center Network Research and Education
University of California San Diego computer scientist George Porter is among the latest recipients of Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The funding agency has earmarked nearly $700,000 for a four-year project on the topic, "A Scalable...Read More