![Minnes and Alvarado](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/MinnesAlvarado.jpg?itok=mWjWc8kh)
Mar 9, 2016
Closing the Gender Gap in Computer Science Education
International Women’s Day was March 8 and two CSE faculty members were invited to weigh in with their perspectives on how to close the gender gap in technology. The "inspiring" Associate Teaching Professor Christine Alvarado (below at right) and Assistant Teaching Professor Mia Minnes were featured...Read More
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Mar 9, 2016
Gordon Center Invites Applications for 2016-2017 Academic Year
Undergraduate and graduate students in CSE and other Jacobs School of Engineering departments have until Monday, April 4, 2016, to apply for a Gordon Scholarship for the next school year. On March 11 the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center held an information session ahead of the application...Read More
Mar 7, 2016
CSE Sophomore and Team Finish #3 in HealthHack
While students from Bioengineering dominated the top two teams at the second annual HealthHack 2016 organized by the UC San Diego chapter of Engineering World Health, a Computer Science and Engineering sophomore and his team mates took the third spot. Well over 100 students, mostly undergraduates,...Read More
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Mar 6, 2016
What Citizen Science and Computer Science Can Do for Medical Research
Citizen-science initiatives in which members of the public contribute to a particular study have become a very valuable asset to researchers. UC San Diego professor Rob Knight (right), who has dual appointments in Pediatrics as well as Computer Science and Engineering, co-founded the American...Read More
![Pavel Pevner](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/PevznerILTI.jpg?itok=nDMBUu2X)
Mar 2, 2016
UC Invitation for Faculty to Develop Fully Online Courses
The University of California is inviting faculty from all UC campuses to submit proposals for developing undergraduate online courses that run fully on UC Online. The university's Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI) offers financial support to defray the costs of creating fully online...Read More
![Concept Art of CSE Building](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/Postdocs640.png?itok=RrIBv1pF)
Mar 1, 2016
CSE, ECE, ITA and Qualcomm Institute Invite Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Applicants
The UC San Diego Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Center has announced an exciting new initiative aimed at preparing outstanding researchers for academic careers in the field of Data Science. Co-sponsoring the Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowships with ITA are the departments of Computer...Read More
![Antonella Wilby](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/AntonellaWithSpherecam.jpg?itok=qMWna_0m)
Feb 29, 2016
Ph.D. Student Deploys SphereCam to Track Most Endangered Marine Mammal
Antonella Wilby graduated with a B.S. in computer science in 2015 and easily transitioned into graduate school, where she works with CSE Prof. Ryan Kastner on underwater robotics and computer vision. It grew out of Wilby's participation as an undergraduate in the Engineers for Exploration program,...Read More
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Feb 25, 2016
CSE Graduate Program Honored After Student Survey
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is one of six departments or programs recognized as Outstanding Graduate Departments and Programs. The awards are the first to reward demonstrated excellence based on the university's Graduate and Professional Student Experience and Satisfaction (GPSES) survey...Read More
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Feb 23, 2016
CSE Startup Highlighted as Event Tech of the Week
CSE Prof. YY Zhou's current startup Whova is on a roll, along with the company's software engineering development team, The Whova app was selected as the Event Tech of the Week by the blog TechsyTalk, which keeps event organizers up-to-date on new technologies to enhance the event experience for...Read More
![Paul Epperson](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/PaulEpperson.jpg?itok=xcAamqzK)
Feb 21, 2016
CSE Sophomore Wants to Design and Implement Software Solutions
Another CSE student highlighted in the Jacobs School's #ILookLikeAnEngineer social-media campaign in February is Paul Epperson. A computer-science major and Regents Scholar in his second year, Epperson expects to graduate in 2018. He says he chose engineering at UC San Diego "because I wanted to be...Read More