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Computer Science Professor Earns Undergraduate Mentorship Award for Going the Extra Mile, Literally

April 7, 2025

Ryan Kastner, a professor in the Jacobs School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, recently received the prestigious award for undergraduate research faculty mentoring from the Computing Research Association (CRA).

What is AI’s Part in Modern Musical Composition?

April 4, 2025

What makes certain compositions more laudable than others? That is the age-old question. A contemporary question – one that could only be birthed in the era of GenAI– is this: will the 21st century yield a musical composer capable of stirring human emotions without being human itself?

Computer Science Undergrad Earns Top Honors in Prestigious Competition–a First for UC San Diego

February 4, 2025

UC San Diego computer science and engineering undergraduate Venkataram Sivaram is the first student from the university to receive the prestigious Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.

UC San Diego Computer Scientists Earn IMC Test-of-time Award for Pivotal Bitcoin Crime Fighting Research

December 12, 2024

When Bitcoin launched in 2009, the virtual currency was heralded as virtually untraceable – an alarming prospect for crimefighters – until a team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego devised a clever tracing technique that could in fact follow the money.

Computer Science Undergrad Jonathan Ty Awarded Alan Turing Memorial Scholarships for Support of LGBTQIA+ Community

October 22, 2024

Jonathan Ty, a sophomore majoring in computer science, has been awarded the 2024-2025 Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship and the Alan Turing Memorial Teradata Scholarship from the University of California San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS). Each year CNS recognizes a student whose studies relate to networked systems and who is an active supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Computer Science Researchers Are Getting it Wrong When it Comes to Autism Inclusivity

August 6, 2024

Computer science Ph.D. student Naba Rizvi investigates the stereotypes about neurodiversity perpetuated by computer science research in a new study.

Another Meteoric Rise for UC San Diego’s “Fallen Star” Team in Global Programming Competition

June 26, 2024

UC San Diego’s competitive student programming team, Fallen Star, is set to compete in the prestigious International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in Astana, Kazakhstan this September

Barna Saha Celebrated as Harry E. Gruber Endowed Chair at UC San Diego

May 2, 2024

Barna Saha, a computer scientist at UC San Diego who spearheads a new $10 million multi-university research institute to tackle problems in theoretical foundations of data science, was honored this week as the Harry E. Gruber Professor of Computer Science and Information Technologies Endowed Chair.

Fighting AI Fire with ML Firepower

May 2, 2024

Computer scientists from the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have proposed a novel solution to optimize the tremendous potential of deep generative models while mitigating the production of content that is biased or toxic in nature.

ServiceNow Developer David Loo Returns to His Roots to Accept CSE’s Distinguished Alumni Award

April 3, 2024

UC San Diego alumnus David Loo (BS ’91) has zigzagged continents to earn a world-class education and launch global companies, including ServiceNow. Loo was honored recently as the Department of Computer Science and Engineering's distinguished alumnus.
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