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NSF Funds CSE Professor to Model Human-Robot Teamwork in Uncertain Environments

August 29, 2017

Laurel Riek, associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego, will lead a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) project on new methods for coordinating teams of robots and people in complex, uncertain environments.

UC San Diego Archaeologist to Fly Explorers Club Flag on Desert Land and Sea Expedition in Israel

August 28, 2017

On Aug. 29, UC San Diego archaeologist Tom Levy leads an expedition for the first-ever desert land-and-sea integrated cyber-archaeology project to be carried out in Israel, and the expedition will be flying The Explorers Club flag (as Levy did in 2011 with an expedition to southern Jordan).

Incoming Graduate Student Co-Authors Guide to ‘Machine Learning for Humans’

August 23, 2017

Samer Sabri is an incoming first-year M.S. student in Computer Science at the University of California San Diego. He is part of a two-person writing team that developed "Machine Learning for Humans," an easy-to-read online primer about machine learning that went live on the website Medium on August 19.

New ECE Faculty Hire Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Bring Breadboards to Bishkek

August 18, 2017

Curt Schurgers, director of the QI Prototyping Lab, is celebrating two big accomplishments: An appointment to the faculty of the UC San Diego Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award.

Computer Security Experts Honored for Research that Stands the Test of Time

August 17, 2017

Sixteen years after they published a groundbreaking paper on the spread of denial-of-service cyber attacks on the Internet, UC San Diego computer scientists are being honored with a Test of Time award at this week’s USENIX Security Symposium in Vancouver, Canada.

New Study Reveals Public Resistance to Use of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes for Disease Control

August 15, 2017

The study -- led by QI affiliate Cinnamon Bloss -- was published in today's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association and suggests a strong resistance to the use of genetically engineered mosquitoes for controlling disease.

Qualcomm Institute’s CARI Therapeutics Awarded NIH Grant for Opioid Sensor

August 10, 2017

QI Innovation Space member CARI Therapeutics has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to collaboratively develop a biosensor that will detect the presence of opioids in patients in recovery.

En Route to UC San Diego, Chinese Undergraduate Wins Award at SIGGRAPH 2017 – in Absentia

August 7, 2017

This fall an undergraduate alumnus from China’s Tsinghua University is joining the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Ph.D. program, and this week, Tiancheng (Kevin) Sun was named the winner of the ACM Student Research Competition in the undergraduate category at the SIGGRAPH computer-vision conference in Los Angeles.

Google, UC San Diego and NYU Estimate $25 Million in Ransomware Payouts

July 28, 2017

A UC San Diego Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering participated in a study with Google and NYU which estimates that criminals made off with over $25 million in payouts from victims of ransomware cyber attacks.

At Intersection of Visual Computing and Robotics, New Professor Joins UC San Diego Faculty

July 17, 2017

Effective July 1, Dr. Hao Su joined the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of California San Diego to explore fundamental problems in broad disciplines related to artificial intelligence, including computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning and robotics
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