Jul 29, 2015
Systems, Security and Programming Languages Expert Joins Computer Science Faculty at UC San Diego
He won’t start work until next year, but Deian Stefan has accepted an appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of California, San Diego, effective in July. His research interests are in building principled and practical secure...Read More
Jul 27, 2015
CSE Hosts Inaugural New Computer Science Faculty Workshop
CSE teaching faculty Beth Simon and Leo Porter, along with Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech) and Cynthia Lee (Stanford), led a new annual workshop devised to help new faculty excel in teaching. Starting with a keynote address from Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer...Read More
Jul 20, 2015
Campus Supports CSE Initiative to Serve Students Interested in Computational Sciences
In an era of restrictions on the number of freshman and transfer students accepted into computer science and engineering majors, the CSE department has embarked on what it calls a "targeted effort to build and disseminate resources for students interested in studying the computational sciences at...Read More
Jul 20, 2015
UC San Diego Ranked #4 Among U.S. Public Universities
New rankings name UC San Diego the fourth best public university in the U.S. and the 21st best university in the world. The rankings by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) are based on quality of research, faculty, influence, enterprise and successful alumni. The fourth annual global...Read More
Jul 1, 2015
Bellare, Co-authors Honored for Paper on Encryption vs. Mass Surveillance
On Tuesday, June 30 in Philadelphia, CSE Prof. Mihir Bellare was among the recipients of the 2015 Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Award. The ceremony was part of the annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) Symposium. The award honored the three co-authors of a 2014 paper on "Security of...Read More
Jun 29, 2015
CSE Professor Launches Online Courses in Interaction Design
Learners around the world, regardless of background, will have the opportunity online to learn how to design great user experiences and what it takes to design technologies that “bring people joy rather than frustration.” The courses were developed by University of California, San Diego Professor...Read More
Jun 18, 2015
Adjunct CSE Professor Divulges Google's Network Strategy
This week Google partially lifted the curtain of secrecy surrounding the homegrown network architecture it built over the past decade to handle the massive amount of Internet traffic through the search giant's servers. To divulge the details, Google selected an adjunct CSE professor to go public....Read More
Jun 15, 2015
CSE Student Turn Satellite Images into Policy Analysis
Recently, over 50 students – 17 of them from CSE – showed up for the day-long Big Pixel Hackathon organized by the Qualcomm Institute's Big Pixel Initiative (BPI) to showcase what can happen when you let students loose on the largest private collection of high-resolution satellite imagery on earth...Read More
Jun 13, 2015
$2 Million Gift from Alumnus Supports Computer Science Undergraduate Engineering Education at UC San Diego
A $2 million gift from a University of California, San Diego alumnus will provide critical support for undergraduate education in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The funds will help recruit, retain and support the professors and lecturers whose primary mission is to teach and...Read More
Jun 12, 2015
UC San Diego Students Spend Summer in Japan on PRIME Program
CSE undergraduate Michelle Wu is one of four UC San Diego students who will be spending the summer in Japan as part of the Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates (PRIME) program. PRIME's internship program promotes undergraduate research experiences on projects related to cyberinfrastructure....Read More