Welcome to CSE @ UCR
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Welcome to Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of California, Riverside! The department offers the B.S. degree in Computer Science, and Business Informatics, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, and we participate in the Computer Engineering Program. We are also proud to introduce our new Five-Year Joint B.S.+M.S. degree in Computer Science, the Five-Year Joint B.S.+M.S. degree in Computer Engineering and the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering. We have strong research programs in architecture, compilers, embedded systems, algorithms, computational biology, databases, data mining, computer networks, distributed processing, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and graphics. CSE students at UCR enjoy the benefits of a smaller campus, which include a more relaxed and personal atmosphere with specialized attention and guidance. In addition, our students can also take advantage of the innovative research, first-rate professors, and worldwide networking that comes from being part of the prestigious UC System. Our department currently has five lecturers and 23 tenure-track faculty that include three ACM Fellows, four IEEE Fellows, five AAAS Fellows, one NSF Presidential Young Investigator, one AFOSR Young Investigator, and ten NSF CAREER award holders. Although relatively young, we have quickly become a well-established and well known research department, with 182 graduate students (48 M.S. and 134 Ph.D.) enrolled in the 2012-13 academic year. We graduate approximately 15 to 20 Ph.D. students per year and place them in highly respected organizations. Our new external grants for 2012-13 academic year is $6,000,000. The Department is pleased to announce a significant increase in the ranking of our program from such organizations as the National Research Council (NRC), Princeton Review, and U.S. News & World Report. Ph.Ds.org showed an independent analysis of the NRC data and rated us very high as well. We anticipate an increase in student applications from prospective graduates utilizing this information and are looking forward to a successful recruiting season. I invite you to further explore our department and the exciting opportunities that we provide on our web site and again, welcome you to Computer Science and Engineering at UCR! Laxmi N. Bhuyan
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In the News
CSE brings in $6 million in new funding.In the last year, the CSE researchers secured over $6 million in new funding for the year 2012-13 and beyond. Noteworthy among them is the project by Eamonn Keogh (PI), Vassilis Tsotras (Co-PI) and Walid Najjar (Co-PI) from NSF, on Hardware/Software Accelerated Data Mining for Real-Time Monitoring of Streaming Pediatric ICU Data, for $1.1 million, for the period July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2016. For more details on recent funding, see here. |
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Online course for Spring'13 -- Intro to CS (CS 010V)CSE proudly presents its first offering of CS 010V -- a fully-online equivalent to CS 010. Much more than video lectures on the web, the course uses new interactive animated web content to guide students step-by-step through the learning process, and includes state-of-the-art online homework and programming assignment feedback systems, plus plenty of online live interaction with the instructor, TAs, and other helpers. See more course info. |
Welcome new faculty, Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen.Dr. Chen’s research interests include high performance computing, parallel and distributed systems, grid and cloud computing, and large scale simulation. His research has been supported by National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, CMG Reservoir Simulation Foundation, and Microsoft Corporation and he received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2012. Chen's website. |
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CSE contributes to NATURE article.Prof. Tim Close (Botany) and CSE’s Prof. Stefano Lonardi supervised the UCR team which contributed the primary DNA sequence using a novel sequencing strategy. Of the paper, “This resource will serve as an essential reference for genetic research and breeding and help advance gene discovery and genome-assisted crop improvement,” says Close. This work is the result of a large international effort involving about seventy authors in nine countries (Germany, UK, Australia, USA, Finland, Japan, Israel, France, Italy). Of the seventy authors, nine worked on this project while at UC Riverside. Prof. G. Ciardo was also involved in this project. Close and Lonardi have been collaborating since 2003 on the barley genome. UCR press release. |
CSE researchers received Best Paper at SIGKDD.Thanawin (Art) Rakthanmanon, Bilson Campana, Abdullah Mueen, Gustavo Batista, Brandon Westover, Qiang Zhu, Jesin Zakaria, and Eamonn Keogh authored the winning paper, entitled “Searching and Mining Trillions of Time Series Subsequences under Dynamic Time Warping”. The 2012 paper was recognized at SIGKDD, a top conference in data mining. See the SIGKDD Awards. |
CSE App helps protect from hackers on Facebook.TechCrunch, the popular tech forum, discussed MyPageKeeper, a Facebook security app, developed by UCR CSE researchers (Rahman, Huang, Madhyastha, Faloutsos). "Protect Your Facebook Feed From Hackers With A University of California-Designed App". The app detects social spam posts on Facebook user profiles, with high accuracy and its findings were published in Usenix Security 2012. See the TechCrunch article. |
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CSE’s Gupta receives 2012 2012 Doctoral Advisor/Mentor award."Professor Rajiv Gupta has been awarded by the UCR Graduate Council and Graduate Division as a recipient of the 2012 Doctoral Advisor/Mentor Award. In nominating him, Gupta's students emphasized his "admirable patience" and "unshakeable belief" in their potential. They praised his ability to guide students to find and pursue their own ideas rather than assigning and directing specific research tasks." See details here. |
CSE Student, UCR Young Alumnus of 2012.Shaohui "Steve" Chen, '05 M.S. Computer Science and '07 MBA Management, has been selected as the UC Riverside Alumni Association's Young Alumnus for 2012. This award is given to alumni under the age of 35 with a significant record of career and/or civic achievement and promise in their profession. For more details, see here. |
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