Apr 1, 2015
Disaggregating Data Centers
CSE Prof. George Porter is back from the big annual Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) and expo, which took place in Los Angeles this year. The associate director of UC San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS) and two colleagues from the ECE department – Shaya Fainman and George Papen – were on...Read More
Mar 30, 2015
New Opportunities for CSE Students, Faculty in Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space
The Qualcomm Institute is setting up a new space where companies can apply to lease offices or labs on the second floor of Atkinson Hall, across from the CSE building. The institute announced the first seven companies that have been approved to be the first tenants of the facility, with more in the...Read More
Mar 21, 2015
Cyber Privacy App Gets Boost from CSE Alumnus, Research Scientist Now Teaching at Carnegie Mellon
CSE got a plug from one of its alumni and former research scientist in an article about how most apps don't care about privacy. CSE alumnus Yuvraj Agarwal (Ph.D. '09) left UC San Diego in 2013 to be an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded that...Read More
Mar 19, 2015
Bioinformatics Experiment Holds Promise for Industrial Production of Algae Biofuels
CSE Prof. Vineet Bafna was on the roster of experts who spoke at the Green Revolution 2.0 symposium March 12-13 in the Qualcomm Institute, organized by the California Center for Algal Biology and the Center for Food and Fuel for the 21st Century. The bioinformatics expert addressed the “Ecology of...Read More
Mar 18, 2015
March 30 Application Deadline for Gordon Engineering Leadership Scholars
CSE undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply for the Gordon Scholars Program. Organized by the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center, the program expects to select 20 students for the 2015-2016 program, half undergrads, half grad students. Applications for the prestigious...Read More
Mar 16, 2015
Center for Visual Computing Gets Ready to Take a Bow
The Computer Science and Engineering department is home to a new research center on computer vision and graphics, computational imaging and augmented reality, to be announced soon. According to a report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, Sony is the largest founding sponsor of the new UC San Diego...Read More
Mar 13, 2015
CSE Faculty, Students Among Winners for Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program
Five CSE graduate students have received inaugural Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program (FISP) grants from the university. They include Jagannathan Venkatesh, a Ph.D. student working with CSE Prof. Tajana Rosing, and an as-yet-unnamed CSE graduate student who will work with Qualcomm Institute...Read More
Mar 10, 2015
Computer Engineering #13 in Graduate School Ranking
U.S. News & World Report is out with its graduate school rankings for 2016. Although the Jacobs School of Engineering overall ranked #17 out of 195 engineering schools, there was better news in the part of the survey focused on computer engineering (which is split between CSE and Electrical and...Read More
Mar 10, 2015
‘Moving onto Deeper, More Interesting and More Challenging Problems’
Industry, Academic Experts Flock to Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop Approximately 220 researchers from academic, industry and national labs were at UC San Diego in early March for the sixth annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop. The annual event is co-organized by CSE’s Non-Volatile Systems...Read More
Mar 10, 2015
CSE Alumna Receives NSF Funding for Internet Topology Project
CSE Faculty-Affiliate and alumna Kimberly Claffy (MS ‘91, PhD ‘94) is a PI on a new $1.2 million NSF grant to measure and quantify the changing nature of the Internet’s topology and what it means for the Internet’s future in terms of design, operations, scientific study and public policy. “From...Read More