Feb 24, 2023
CNS’s Network Grows Stronger
By Kimberley Clementi UC San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS) is adding four additional faculty members to its growing ranks. Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) assistant professors Earlence Fernandes, Imani Munyaka and Amy Ousterhout will be supporting CNS research...Read More
Feb 13, 2023
Two New Deep Minds Join CSE's DeepMind Fellows
By Kimberley Clementi UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) is proud to announce two additional DeepMind Fellows, adding to the growing class of exceptional machine learning master’s students to benefit from the program since it began in 2020. Katya Katsy and Amber Olsen...Read More
Feb 9, 2023
Cybersecurity Expert Stefan Savage Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
By Ioana Patringenaru UC San Diego cybersecurity expert Stefan Savage, whose work examines a wide range of technologies, from cars, to spam emails to cryptocurrencies, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. It’s the latest in a long series of accolades for Savage, who has also...Read More
Feb 1, 2023
CSE Researchers and Intel Join DARPA Program to Prevent Exploitation of Computing Systems
Credit: Intel What’s New: Intel and the UC San Diego announced they have been selected to join the Hardening Development Toolchains Against Emergent Execution Engines (HARDEN) program team for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Adversaries have crafted increasingly complex...Read More
Jan 25, 2023
New CSE Faculty Member Amy Ousterhout Races Ahead
By Kimberley Clementi It’s been said that slow and steady wins the race. But high performers like Amy Ousterhout, a new assistant professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, set a pace few can match – whether she’s navigating the fast-track in academia or a high-...Read More
Jan 5, 2023
UC San Diego Leads $50.5M Center for Computing
By Ioana Patringenaru and Katie E. Ismael Researchers led by Tajana Simunic-Rosing, a computer science professor at the University of California San Diego, received a $35 million contract from the Semiconductor Research Corporation to make computing orders of magnitude faster and more efficient....Read More
Dec 22, 2022
Security Sleuths: Computer Scientists’ Solutions to Security Issues Withstand the Test
By Tiffany Fox and Katie E. Ismael Twenty, 15, even 10 years ago, computer scientists were just beginning to discover the power of big data, building better user interfaces for the Internet of Things … and quickly realizing encryption and security would play a big role in all of it. Now in 2022,...Read More
Dec 22, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris Honors CSE Student Naba Rizvi (PhD ’25)
By Kimberley Clementi I send my warmest congratulations on your selection as a Computer Science Hero. Vice President Kamala Harris sent a personal note of congratulations to Naba Rizvi, a PhD student in UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department, for her recent recognition...Read More
Dec 14, 2022
New Web Tracking Technique is Bypassing Privacy Protections
By Ioana Patringenaru Advertisers and web trackers have been able to aggregate users’ information across all of the websites they visit for decades, primarily by placing third-party cookies in users’ browsers. Two years ago, several browsers that prioritize user privacy --- including Safari,...Read More
Dec 13, 2022
Two CSE Teams Earn $100K Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Awards
By Kimberley Clementi Two teams from UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department have received Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) awards for 2022. The CSE teams along with four additional teams from the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department earned six out of...Read More