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May 25, 2023
CNS in 2023: the Annual Research Review
By Kimberley Clementi The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) held its annual CNS Research Review at the UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Building on May 4 and 5. Now in its second decade, the invitation-only event introduced industry members from Cisco, Google, Qualcomm and...Read More
May 22, 2023
CSE’s CAREER Award Recipient List Grows by Three – Again
By Kimberley Clementi For the second consecutive year, three faculty members from UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department were recognized with the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. Assistant professors Albert Chern, Tzu-Mao Li...Read More
May 15, 2023
UC San Diego Computer Scientists Have Distinguished Showing at ASPLOS 2023
By Katie E. Ismael and Kimberley Clementi From reclaiming the 1.5 billion smart phones deactivated annually to finding a new way to reduce browser security risks, UC San Diego computer scientists tackled big issues in two papers that were recognized recently at the 2023 Architectural Support for...Read More
May 10, 2023
Changemakers of CSE: Russell Impagliazzo Pursues Complexity and Comedy
By Josh Baxt and Katie E. Ismael Russell Impagliazzo, a longtime professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, is immersed in computational complexity, identifying how difficult it will be to solve specific problems on fast computers. On the side, he immerses himself...Read More
May 1, 2023
Supun Nakandala (PhD ’22) Wins SIGMOD Dissertation Award
By Kimberley Clementi UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering alumnus Supun Nakandala (PhD ’22) has been selected as winner of the Jim Gray Dissertation Award 2023 by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD). This prestigious award...Read More
Apr 24, 2023
CSE Faculty Recognized with Amazon Research Awards
By Kimberley Clementi Three faculty members from UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department were among the 79 Amazon Research Award recipients announced for the fall 2022 cycle. CSE Assistant Professor Sean Gao, who was also a 2021 awardee, was honored along with Associate...Read More
Apr 24, 2023
Jessica Echterhoff (MS ’22, PhD ’25) Nets CSE’s First Apple Scholars in AI/ML Fellowship
By Kimberley Clementi Department of Computer Science and Engineering PhD student Jessica Echterhoff has been named a 2023 recipient of the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship. Echterhoff, the first UC San Diego student to receive this award since the inaugural class was announced in 2020,...Read More
Mar 23, 2023
Is There a Quantum Advantage? Daniel Grier Joins CSE to Prove That There Is.
By Kimberley Clementi Quantum computing is to classical computing what Ant-Man is to The Avengers: a diminutive team member with a sizeable advantage performing certain tasks. At least that’s what Daniel Grier, a new assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering and Mathematics...Read More
Mar 10, 2023
UC San Diego “Fallen Star” Team Rises to the Top in ICPC Regional Contest
By Kimberley Clementi A team of UC San Diego computer science and math students ranked first place in the Southern California Regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), the world’s largest and most prestigious programming competition. The team outperformed peers...Read More
Mar 2, 2023
Meet the Inaugural Cohort of ServiceNow Scholars
By Katherine Connor Nine undergraduate computer science and engineering students at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego have been selected as inaugural recipients of the ServiceNow scholarship. ServiceNow Scholars are computer science students with outstanding academic merit,...Read More