Mar 5, 2015
Why Heat May Spell Trouble for 3D Integrated Circuits
In a recent article about how "3D stacking offers an extension for Moore's Law," Engineering & Technology Magazine suggests that a move to 3D integrated circuits could offer the closest thing to Moore's Law by reducing the average wire length, and therefore energy. But a computer scientist at...Read More
Feb 25, 2015
Counter-Intuitive Technique to Put the Brakes on Liar Buyer Fraud
Mayank Dhiman is now a Powell Fellow in CSE's Security and Cryptography group. But back in 2013, he spent the summer as an undergraduate summer researcher at PayPal, working under CSE alumnus Markus Jakobsson (Ph.D. '97), the company's principal data scientist. Flash forward 18 months, and the two...Read More
Feb 25, 2015
Breakout on Center for Visual Computing at Research Expo 2015
At the 2015 Jacobs School of Engineering ResearchExpo, the breakout session will showcase the latest and soon-to-be-announced Research Centers. While there are CSE faculty involved in other centers, only one such center -- the Center for Visual Computing (CVC) -- will be represented by a senior...Read More
Feb 24, 2015
CSE Chair Comments on First U.S. Chief Data Scientist
When the San Diego Union-Tribune looked for an assessment of incoming White House chief data scientist DJ Patil, the newspaper turned to CSE chair and professor Rajesh Gupta for a comment: "DJ perfectly reflects UCSD's core: young and [on the] leading edge of science." In the article about...Read More
Feb 24, 2015
Recent Faculty Recruit on Importance of Microbiome
The TED Talks website has posted a much-awaited presentation by UC San Diego professor of pediatrics as well as computer science, Rob Knight. Actually, it was recorded at TED 2014 nearly a year ago, when Knight was still a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist at the University of...Read More
Feb 23, 2015
CSE's Lovett Is Only UC Computer Scientist Honored with 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship
This year five faculty from UC San Diego, and 18 from the system-wide University of California are being honored by the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation with Sloan Research Fellowships for 2015. And only 16 computer scientists from the U.S. and Canada made the cut. Indeed, only one professor of...Read More
Feb 12, 2015
CSE Professor Partners with Instagram Co-Founder on Coursera
Coursera is pushing further into specialized sequences of courses that may be more attractive to people looking to boost their career prospects. The largest network offering massive open online courses, or MOOCs, Coursera is also partnering with companies to help shape the curriculum. Case in...Read More
Feb 11, 2015
Lab-in-a-Box Takes Aim at Doctors’ Computer Activity
They call it “the Lab-in-a-Box.” According to Nadir Weibel, a research scientist in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department at the University of California, San Diego, inside the box are assorted sensors and software designed to monitor a doctor’s office, particularly during...Read More
Feb 10, 2015
How UC San Diego and CSE Fare in R&D Spending
The latest authoritative statistics on university research and development (R&D) expenditures show that UC San Diego overall came in fifth place among all U.S. institutions of higher learning, with just over $1 billion in total R&D. Of that, $630,000 came from the federal government. UC San...Read More
Feb 9, 2015
UW-UCSD Project Demonstrates Wireless Car Hacking for TV Newsmagazine
If you watched CBS's 60 Minutes program on Sunday, Febrary 8, you missed seeing the CSE logo. As part of a broader feature on information security research undertaken with support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the TV newsmagazine showcased the joint research on...Read More