CSE faculty receive national and international recognition for contributions to their fields and society.
Not one, not two but five- that’s five– Test of Time awards have been bestowed on CSE professors from the security and cryptography group in the last year for their research that has left a lasting impact in their fields.
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The high-performance yet low-power processors running billions of today’s laptops and mobile devices come thanks to research by computer scientists at CSE and HP Labs.
Their work, which began nearly two decades ago, has influenced the design of many modern processors such as ARM’s big.Little, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, Intel’s Alder Lake and Apple’s flagship Apple M1, including the recently announced M1Pro and M1 Max.
Now, the paper that led to a novel processor architecture that would provide significant energy benefits has been recognized for its lasting impact with a MICRO Test of Time Award. The paper’s lead author was Rakesh Kumar, a PhD student who was being mentored by CSE Professor Dean Tullsen at the time. Read More
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.
CSE Professor Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou realized the enormous task in front of researchers: writing software to take advantage of those multiple CPUs could have a lot of bugs.
Zhou has now been honored with an Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2022 most influential paper for her 2008 study: “Learning from mistakes: a comprehensive study on real world concurrency bug characteristics.” Read More
More than 10 years ago, a team from CSE and the University of Washington discovered that cars were indeed subject to hacking. This work led to two scientific papers that opened up a new area of cybersecurity research and served as a wake-up call for the automotive industry.
Now the team has received the Golden Goose Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Golden Goose Award recipients demonstrate how scientific advances resulting from foundational research can help respond to national and global challenges, often in unforeseen ways.
The car cybersecurity project was led by CSE Professor Stefan Savage and Tadayoshi Kohno (PhD ’06) with the University of Washington. Read More
CSE Professors Ranjit Jhala and Tajana Šimunić Rosing have been elected as fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). They are among the 71 new fellows honored by the ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Read More
Associate Professor Shachar Lovett has received a Simons Foundation Investigator award, which supports outstanding theoretical scientists in math, physics, astrophysics and computer science. Lovett will receive $100,000 per year over the next five years. Read More
Assistant Professor Deian Stefan has been honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Stefan will receive $75,000 during the two-year fellowship to advance his work on browser security.
Stefan is the third CSE professor to receive a Sloan award in recent years. Nadia Polikarpova was selected in 2020 and Daniel Kane was a recipient in 2017. The fellowship supports young scientists pursuing fundamental research with great potential to impact their fields. Read More
Three CSE faculty were among those recognized this year with the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. Assistant professors Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Ndapa Nakashole and Rose Yu were each honored for exemplifying excellence in their teaching and research. Read More
CSE Teaching Professor Christine Alvarado was highlighted by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) for winning its inaugural Joanne McGrath Cohoon Service Award.
The award, sponsored by AT&T, honors distinguished educators and staff who have effectively challenged and changed the systems that shape the experiences of women undergraduates in postsecondary computing programs. Read More
CSE 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 six members of the university’s Academic Senate to receive this university-wide award. In his spare time, he also managed to finish his first Ironman competition. Read More
UC San Diego boasts two of this year’s 2022 Meta Ph.D. Research Fellows—37 scholars selected from a pool of 2,300 applicants worldwide.
As fellows, CSE Ph.D. students Stewart Grant and Kabir Nagrecha will be able to present their own research, learn about current research at Meta, as well as receive tuition and fees for up to two years and a $42,000 stipend. Read More
Faris Ashai (’23) was recently featured in 2022’s Major League Hacking (MLH) Top 50, a list recognizing the top new computer scientists and hackers. MLH compiles this list each year, highlighting the hackathon community’s most inspiring members and recognizing their contributions to the tech ecosystem and STEM education.
Ashai was recognized for creating new opportunities to help make the hackathon community more inclusive and accessible. As an organizer and director of TritonHacks, a 30-hour hackathon for high school students hosted annually at UC San Diego, Ashai provided industry mentors for each participant, regardless of skill level, and equipped beginner participants with highly effective starter kits. Read More
Yu-Ying Yeh (PhD ’24) has been awarded a 2022 Google Fellowship in Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision. She is one of nine recipients in that category this year. Two previous CSE students – Tiancheng Sun (PhD ’21) and Saining Xie (PhD ’18) – were also awarded this prestigious fellowship.
Yeh’s 2022 Google Fellowship will support her research interest at the intersection between computer vision and graphics. Her goal is to develop algorithms that enable photorealistic content creation automatically for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications. Read More
Four CSE graduate students have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Fellowships. The new fellows– Alex Trevithick, Alisha Ukani, Olivia Weng and Alex Yen– will receive a $34,000 annual stipend for three years, a $12,000 education allowance to cover tuition and fees, and numerous professional development opportunities. Founded in 1951, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is the country’s oldest effort to support graduate STEM students. Read More
PhD student Bodhisattwa (Bodhi) has been honored with an Adobe Research Fellowship. The fellowships are only awarded to about ten people each year, and Majumder is the third CSE graduate student to receive one, following Ailie Fraser in 2017 and Zexiang Xu in 2019. Read More
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