May 19, 2016
CSE Alumnus/Postdoc Accepts Faculty Position in North Carolina
Hung-Wei Tseng is a postdoctoral researcher whose CSE bio online notes that he is "looking for a tenure-track faculty job." Well, now he has one. The CSE alumnus (Ph.D. '14) has just accepted a faculty position at North Carolina State University. According to his thesis advisor, CSE Prof. Dean...Read More
May 13, 2016
CSE Faculty Welcome White House National Microbiome Initiative
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in collaboration with public- and private-sector stakeholders, rolled out a National Microbiome Initiative (NMI) on May 13. Its goal: to foster the integrated study of microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that live on and in...Read More
May 12, 2016
Milestone Reached by CSE Startup as Newspaper Features Mobile App
The headline in the Union-Tribune newspaper says it all: "App makes it easier for geeks to socialize at events." The headline sums up the latest startup of CSE Prof. Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou and former students, as the company reports a key milestone for the maker of an app to foster event engagement...Read More
May 11, 2016
UC San Diego Ranked #35 in Prestigious Global Ranking
According to the world's largest, invitation-only opinion survey of senior academics, UC San Diego is the #35 best university around the globe. Just out, the UK-based Times Higher Education Supplement released its World Reputation Rankings in early May. The campus's reputation climbed six spots...Read More
May 11, 2016
Honorable Mention to Bioinformatics Professor's Doctoral Dissertation
ECE Prof. Siavash Mirarab (left) is also a member of the joint Bioinformatics program with CSE and other UC San Diego departments (along with CSE faculty, including Vineet Bafna, Nuno Bandeira and Pavel Pevzner), so it's worth noting that he was a runner-up for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award....Read More
May 5, 2016
CSE Neuroengineer Tackles Consciousness, Neuromorphic Engineering and Machine Learning
Computer scientists are not often invited to present their research at The Science of Consciousness annual conference, but University of California San Diego development engineer Stephen Deiss did just that. He spoke to the meeting in Tucson, AZ, in late April on the subject of "Romancing the...Read More
May 4, 2016
Graduate Student Community Awards to CSE Support Staff and Community Leader
Jessica Gross is the TA and Graduate Admissions Coordinator in the CSE Student Affairs, and she is one of two winners for the department at the Graduate Student Association (GSA) Community Awards. Meanwhile, Ph.D. candidate Dustin Richmond -- who expects to graduate this June -- was also singled...Read More
May 4, 2016
Interested in UX Design? CSE's Klemmer Has Two of the Top Three MOOCs in New List
According to a feature article in the British online publication Digital Arts, an online course developed and taught by CSE (and Cognitive Science) Prof. Scott Klemmer is one of the best in the world for learning user experience (UX) design. The survey noted that "UX design is all about improving...Read More
Apr 29, 2016
CSE Sophomores Take VR Skills to Santa Barbara Hackathon
UC San Diego computer science sophomores Connor Smith, Kristin Agcaoili and Anish Kannan were on hand April 22-24 when UC Santa Barbara hosted the second annual Santa Barbara Hackathon. The campus group SB Hacks hosted the 36-hour marathon coding competition, which was open to college students from...Read More
Apr 26, 2016
Andrew Kahng's Best Paper at CDNLive Silicon Valley and Megatrends at Cadence Distinguished Speakers Series
For the very first time, CDNLive Silicon Valley ran an academic track during its 2016 meeting, with a UC San Diego professor taking top honors. CDNLive is the Cadence User Conference, which attracts experts as well as users and developers of Cadence technologies and techniques for designing...Read More