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CSE PhD student Yan Zhu wins best paper award at ICDM 2017!October, 2017Congrats to Yan Zhu, who got a nice first wedding anniversary present, finding out that she had won the best paper award at IEEE ICDM 2017 [a]. Ms. Zhu also had a paper shortlisted for this award in 2016. This is the second win at this conference for Keogh’s lab. In IEEE ICDM 2007, Dragomir Yankov (now at Microsoft) also won this award.[a] Yan Zhu, Makoto Imamura, Daniel Nikovski, and Eamonn Keogh. Matrix Profile VII: Time Series Chains: A New Primitive for Time Series Data Mining. IEEE ICDM 2017 |
UCR CSE research highly ranked by csranking.org!October, 2017CSRanking is a recent ranking of CS Departments in the US and globally based on publications in the topmost venues in different areas of CS. It is a strong indicator of high research quality. UCR is ranked 30th for the period of 2012-2017, and even higher in several specialties (14th in Systems overall, 12th in Architecture, 18th in Networking, 17th in Security, 27th in Databases, 5th in Design Automation, 17th in Embedded Systems, 4th in High Performance Computing, 26th in Measurement and Performance Analysis, and 24th in Bioinformatics). |
Prof. Papalexakis wins ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award DistinctionAugust, 2017Prof. Vagelis Papalexakis was awarded the runner-up distinction for the prestigious 2017 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation award. ACM SIGKDD is the flagship venue for data mining and SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining. Vagelis’ dissertation, titled ‘Mining Large Multi-aspect Data: Algorithms and Applications‘ bridged signal- and tensor-analysis, with data mining at scale, and illustrated the power of the resulting methods in several, real-world applications (Neuroscience, social networks, knowledge on the web). The winners and runners-up were officially announced and recognized at KDD 2017 in Halifax, and they presented their work at a special session on Tuesday, August 15 2017. |
Three from UCR land tenure track faculty positions!July, 2017Two UCR recent PhD graduates (Keval Vora and Panruo Wu) and post-doc Israat Tanzeena Haque accepted tenure track Assistant Professor positions this year. Keval (advisor, Rajiv Gupta) will be joining the CS department at Simon Fraser University; Panruo (advisor Zizhong Chen) will be joining the CS department at the University of Houston; and Israat (advisor, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh) will be joining the CS Department at Dalhousie University. Congratulations! |
Two new faculty join CSE!June, 2017Two new faculty will be joining the department starting in July. Amr Magdy (left) completed his PhD degree from the University of Minnesota in the area of big data computing systems, with specialization in spatial databases. Silas Richelson (right) completed his PhD from UCLA and is currently a Post-doctoral researcher with joint appointment at MIT and Boston University. His area of research is applied cryptography. Welcome Silas and Amr! |
Recent CSE PhD alumnus' company featured in the newsMay, 2017Rachid Ounit (CSE PhD 2017) is the CTO of a startup Biota that was recently featured on GenomeWeb. Biota is aiming to help hospitals cut down on infections by providing them with a DNA sequencing-based microbial surveillance service and targeted interventions. Biota leverages proprietary metagenomics analysis software based on Rachid's PhD work which was completed under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Lonardi. |
UCR Researchers part of a team that sequences the Barley GenomeApril, 2017University of California, Riverside researchers are among a group of 77 scientists worldwide who have sequenced the complete genome of barley, a key ingredient in beer and single malt Scotch. The research, 10 years in the making, is the cover article of the journal Nature. The sequencing and assembly was a daunting task, as the barley genome is almost twice the size of the human genome, with a number of characteristics that complicate sequencing. Prof. Stefano Lonardi and Dr. Rachid Ounit from Computer Science and Engineering, and Prof. Tim Close, Dr. María Muñoz‐Amatriaín, Steve Wanamaker from Botany and Plant Sciences developed novel algorithmic strategies to assemble the gene bearing portion of the barley genome. |
Qian receives a National Science Foundation CAREER awardMarch, 2017Prof. Zhiyun Qian received a Faculty Early Career (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation to fund his proposal titled: "CAREER: Empowering Attacker-Centric Security Analysis of Network Protocols." The highly competitive NSF CAREER grants are described by NSF as: "the most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization". Congratulations, Zhiyun! |
UCR CS grad student Yan Zhu is featured in an ongoing TV-ad campaign for Microsoft Research (MSR)January, 2017Yan was recruited to intern at MSR in 2016, because of her unique expertise in using machine learning to classify insects. The one minute spot is available on youtube. Yan’s work has been reported in several entomological conferences, and in an upcoming submission to Nature Robotics. Yan is a member of Keogh’s Lab. |
UCR PhD student wins best student work award at CoNext 2016 student workshop!January, 2017UCR’s Ahmad Darki, Prof. Qian and Prof. Faloutsos have been awarded the Best Student Work award at the 12th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 16) Student Workshop. The paper is titled: “Don't Trust Your Router: Detecting Compromised Routers.” The paper is joint work with colleagues from Drexel University. The work is sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). |
Prof. Qian's commentary featured in an article on identity theftDecember, 2016Prof. Zhiyun Qian provided expert commentary as part of a recent article by wallethub on identity theft. The article ranks states based on frequency of identity thefts and the State's related policies (California is ranked second worst!). Zhiyun provides advice about how to guard against identity theft, and commentary on whether social networks contribute to these crimes. |
Lonardi recognized as an ACM Distinguished ScientistNovember, 2016Prof. Stefano Lonardi is part of the 2016 ACM Distinguished member class; less than 50 ACM members were elected. A list of previous awardees can be found here. Congratulations, Stefano! |
Best paper award at ICNPNovember, 2016Congratulations to UCR's Israat Tanzeena Haque (post-doc CSE), and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh for receiving the best paper award at the 24th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), one of the premier conferences in computer networks. The paper, titled "CTCV: A Protocol for Coordinated Transport of Correlated Videos in Smart Camera Networks," is co-authored with Vinay Kolar and Vikram Munishwar from Cisco. |
Hardware vulnerability used to bypass operating system defenseOctober, 2016UCR's Nael Abu-Ghazaleh with collaborators Dmitry Ponomarev and Dmitry Evtyushkin from Binghamton University developed a new attack that enables hackers to bypass an important Operating System defense called ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization). The attack targets a unit in modern processors called the branch predictor to expose the location of branches in the kernel, allowing the attackers to derive their ASLR offset. The attack, presented in a paper in the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro), was reported on by a number of technical news outlets including Yahoo! Finance, Ars Technica, Computer World and PC World. |