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The rich diversity of research and perspectives found in UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering makes it the thriving, supportive and world-class community it is today. Read about one of our members, Angelique Taylor ’21, and the impact of CSE on her present and future.
Angelique is a PhD student in the Healthcare Robotics Lab working with Professor Laurel Riek. Her research lies at the intersection of computer vision, robotics, and artificial intelligence. She’s working to design algorithms that enable robots to interact with groups of people in real-world environments. Read More
Taner Halıcıoğlu (BS ’96) is the founder and manager of angel investment firm Keshif Ventures. According to the San Diego Business Journal, which included him in its “San Diego 500, The Book of Influential Business Leaders,” he is “one of San Diego’s few ‘super angels’ in local tech, meaning he’s an active investor in early-stage startups.” He’s also a founding partner of SEED San Diego, a small investor group that supports local startups. His portfolio companies include Empyr, Portfolium, Doctible, CloudBeds, Soci and MixMode.. Read More
Brina Lee (MA ’13) has learned a thing or two about overcoming fear. It’s been a necessity for someone who has blazed a career path that includes being Instagram’s first female engineer and co-founding a company. As she works toward growing her startup, Hamul, the UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) graduate can summarize the most important lesson she’s learned in one short phrase.
“Don’t let you hold yourself back,” she says. “It’s as simple as that.” Read More
Jason Oberg (MA ’12, PhD ’14) is the co-founder and CEO of Tortuga Logic, a San Jose-based cybersecurity company specializing in hardware threat detection and prevention. He’s a leading expert in hardware security whose work has been cited over 1,000 times and been granted six issued and pending patents.
But the roots of these accomplishments go back to the halls of UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering Department, where “wacky ideas,” unique and innovative ways of thinking and tremendous intellectual power combined to make a start-up dream a successful reality. Read More
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