August 27, 2021
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) at UC San Diego is the future home of The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale, or TILOS.
September 26, 2016
The Los Angeles Fire Department, recently challenged by yet another series of late summer wildfires, has successfully tested a new web-based tool developed by University of California San Diego researchers to perform data-driven predictive modeling and analysis of fires that have a high potential for rapid spread.
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.
December 6, 2018
…that will help address disease, global security, public policy, climate change and more.
June 4, 2012
An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, suggest that inactivation of two specific genes related to the immune system may have conferred selected ancestors of modern humans with improved protection from some pathogenic bacterial strains, such as Escherichia coli…
December 20, 2017
Historical cliff erosion rates may have little power to predict future risk, according to a recent study from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego that used laser data to create 3D maps. The new research provides accurate erosion rates for 680 miles of the…
July 14, 2022
…strategies for adapting to climate change. Kicking off the public phase of the Campaign for UC San Diego in 2017, alumnus Taner Halıcıoğlu ’96 committed $75 million to launch the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) and support data science initiatives on campus. Within the first year, the institute established itself…
July 18, 2024
The University of California Board of Regents has approved the creation of the new School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego, a critical advance in UC San Diego’s long history of leading innovation and education in artificial intelligence, computing and data science.
November 8, 2022
Up to 12 new faculty members will be hired at UC San Diego whose work centers on designing just futures, particularly for Indigenous, Black and migrant communities.
February 6, 2020
…advancing sustainable solutions in climate and clean energy. “GPI is a successful instrument and has been a workhorse,” said Konopacky, who described it as a sophisticated camera that goes on the back of a telescope, which basically is a big piece of glass used to collect light. “It’s the eyes…
