Aug 16, 2016
Barngrover, Hoover Hope to Take Robotics Sequence to Next Level
CSE lecturers Christopher Barngrover (near right) and Greg Hoover are looking for more M.S. students to take their CSE 291 three-course sequence, which kicks off this fall with Barngrover's Introduction to Robotics Software course. (It's a graduate-level course, but Barngrover says they have...Read More
Aug 16, 2016
Computer Science at UC San Diego Ranks #14 Worldwide
In its 2016 university rankings, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for the fourth year in a row ranked UC San Diego the #14 university in the world. At the same time, ARWU used its methology to analyze and rank many of the most important disciplines, including computer science, and...Read More
Aug 12, 2016
Researchers Devise Proactive Method for Detecting Hardware Trojans at the Gate-Level
Modern computer chips are made up of hundreds of millions – often billions – of transistors. Such complexity enables the smartphone in your back pocket to perform all manner of powerful computations, but it also provides lots of places for tiny malicious circuits, known as hardware Trojans, to hide...Read More
Aug 11, 2016
Former CSE Chair Looks Back at Enrollment, Student-Faculty Ratio and 'Strong Fundamentals'
In what may be viewed as a valedictory interview after relinquishing the reins of the CSE department following six years as its Chair, Professor Rajesh Gupta sat down to speak with the San Diego Union-Tribune for a look back at how far the department has come. Science editor Gary Robbins notes that...Read More
Aug 10, 2016
CSE, ECE and QI Collaborate on Open Speech Platform
A research scientist in the Qualcomm Institute, Hari Garudadri (at left) is principal investigator on a more than $2 million project funded by NIH's National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD) that involves a team of researchers and graduate students as well as externl...Read More
Aug 8, 2016
Crowdsourcing the Transformation of Mass Spectrometry Big Data into Scientific Living Data
In a landmark paper published in the August issue of Nature Biotechnology*, 127 scientists from a consortium of universities and research labs in the U.S. and worldwide report for the first time on the establishment of an online, crowdsourced knowledge base and workbench that could be a game-...Read More
Aug 8, 2016
ThoughtSTEM Lands $750K SBIR Grant; CTO Moves to GitHub
Another big win for ThoughtSTEM, the San Diego company launched by two recent Ph.D. alumni of the CSE department. The computer science education startup has been awarded a $750,000 grant from NSF's Small Business Innovation Research program to expand use of ThoughtSTEM's LearnToMod software that...Read More
Aug 5, 2016
Faculty-Affiliate on Cross-Cultural Multimedia Computing
Shlomo Dubnov is a computer scientist by training (his Ph.D. is from Hebrew University), but his primary appointment at UC San Diego is in the Department of Music. But Dubnov is also an affiliated faculty member in the Computer Science and Engineering department, and his latest work has just been...Read More
Aug 5, 2016
Undergraduate Summer Research Showcase
More than 300 UC San Diego undergraduates from CSE and other departments will present faculty-mentored research to peers, professors and the general public at the annual Summer Research Conference on Aug. 13. The conference is organized by UC San Diego Academic Enrichment Programs and is open to...Read More
Aug 2, 2016
NOVA Paves the Way for Storage Class Memory File Systems
Intel expects to start selling 3D Xpoint storage class memory (SCM) before the end of 2016 in the form of its Optane solid-state device (SSD). But experts believe the real payoff from SCM will come when systems connect the SCM directly to the processor, yielding hybrid memory systems that include...Read More