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CSE's Leo Porter was selected as one of UC San Diego's Distinguished Teachers

Jun 3, 2022
Distinguished Teacher and Ironman Leo Porter

By Kimberley Clementi Computer Science and Engineering Associate Teaching Professor Leo Porter has received the prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award from the UC San Diego Academic Senate. Selected for his innovative methodology and commitment to excellence in teaching, Porter is one of just...Read More


Fraction of each country's IP addresses that are exposed to observation or selective tampering by companies that connect Internet service providers to the global Internet. Countries are shaded in progressive shades of blue, with wost exposed countries in the darkest blue. Countries in gray excluded from the study.

May 25, 2022
A Quarter of World's Internet Users Rely on Infrastructure That Is Susceptible to Attack

By Ioana Patringenaru About a quarter of the world’s Internet users live in countries that are more susceptible than previously thought to targeted attacks on their Internet infrastructure. Many of the at-risk countries are located in the Global South.  That’s the conclusion of a sweeping, large-...Read More


Laurel Riek leads a $7.5 million MURI grant to investigate human and robot teams

May 20, 2022
Mission Critical: How Humans and Robots can Team Up in Uncertain Environments

By Katie E. Ismael In the midst of a medical emergency or disaster response, how can humans and robots work together more effectively?  That’s the question University of California San Diego roboticist Laurel Riek and a team of researchers are seeking to answer with a new $7.5 million...Read More


(top row) Alex Trevithick and Alisha Ukani, (bottom row) Olivia Weng and Alex Yen.

May 6, 2022
CSE’s NSF PhD Research Fellows

By Josh Baxt   Four graduate students in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering have received prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Fellowships. The new fellows will receive a $34,000 annual stipend for three years, a $12,000 education allowance to cover...Read More


CSE professor Julian McAuley and his team are working to rid chatbots of toxic language.

Apr 22, 2022
Cleaning up Online Bots’ Act – and Speech

By Ioana Patringenaru   Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed algorithms to rid speech generated by online bots of offensive language, on social media and elsewhere.  Chatbots using toxic language is an ongoing issue. But perhaps the most famous example is Tay, a...Read More


Niema Moshiri (left), a CSE assistant teaching professor, and Janine Tiefenbruck (right), a lecturer in the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute who was formerly with CSE, are among the three UC San Diego Integrity Award winners for 2022.

Apr 14, 2022
Niema Moshiri and Janine Tiefenbruck Honored as UC San Diego Integrity Champions

Efforts to ensure the integrity of remote learning developed by Niema Moshiri, an assistant teaching professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Janine Tiefenbruck, a lecturer in the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, were recognized at UC San Diego’s 12th annual...Read More


Department of Computer Science and Engineering Professor YY Zhou.

Apr 12, 2022
Yuanyuan Zhou Honored for Bug Work

By Josh Baxt   In 2008, multicore processors, in which two or more processing units are embedded into an integrated circuit, were exploding in popularity. However, multicores spawned their own unique programming challenges. University of California San Diego computer scientist Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou...Read More


CSE professor Daniel Kane received the Best Paper award at the Conference on Computational Complexity in 2013. As a member of the USA team, he won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2002 and 2003.

Apr 5, 2022
Changemakers of CSE: Daniel Kane Takes on Intricate Puzzles

By Josh Baxt   With joint appointments in UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering and Mathematics departments, Associate Professor Daniel Kane straddles the line between both disciplines. But for Kane, computer science offers some unique opportunities. “The main difference I see is that...Read More


CSE Building at night.

Apr 1, 2022
CSE Rises in New U.S. News and World Report Best Engineering School Rankings

By Katie E. Ismael   UC San Diego’s graduate program in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is ranked #11 in the newest U.S. News and World Report Graduate Program Rankings. UC San Diego has risen to its 11th spot in 2022 from #30 in 1994. And according to CSrankings.org, a metrics-based...Read More


CSE researchers help assemble the first complete human genome.

Mar 31, 2022
Researchers Assemble the First Complete Human Genome

By Josh Baxt   Two decades after the Human Genome Project produced a draft sequence, an international research team, including University of California San Diego computer scientists, has published the first complete genome. The work was done by the Telomere to Telomere (T2T) consortium, and six...Read More