Welcome to CSE @ UCR
The Department of Computer Science & Engineering at UCR
Welcome to Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of California, Riverside! The Department offers the B.S. degree in Computer Science (ABET accredited), Computer Engineering (ABET accredited), Business Informatics; the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science. We are also proud to introduce our new Five-Year Joint B.S.+M.S. degree in Computer Science. At the graduate level, we have strong research programs in architecture, compiler, embedded systems, algorithms, computational biology, databases, data mining, computer networks, distributed processing, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and graphics areas. Our department currently has 5 lecturers and 20 tenure-track faculty that include 3 ACM Fellows, 3 IEEE Fellows, 4 AAAS Fellows, 1 NSF Presidential Young Investigator, 1 AFOSR Young Investigator, and 7 NSF CAREER award holders. Our external research funding is around $3.5M per year. Although relatively young, we have quickly become a well established and well known research department, with over 120 Ph.D. and 30 M.S. students enrolled in the 2009-10 academic year. We graduate 15-20 Ph.D. students every year and place them in reputed universities and industries. 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 hires new faculty. Welcome Professor Madhyastha!The Department is thrilled to have a new faculty member, Harsha V. Madhyastha, on-board. Harsha's research tackles the challenges associated with building large-scale distributed systems across the Internet and inside data centers. He is putting together a heterogenous cluster equipped with cutting-edge technology to test and evaluate the solutions his group develops on real-world applications. |
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CSE graduate student earns top two honors in Mobile Future Forward Student Paper ContestSmruti Parichha, a CSE graduate student working towards her Ph.D. under the advisement of Mart Molle, earned top two placement in Mobile Future Forward's student paper contest. The contest asked for papers to imagine new technologies, new experiences, new applications and services, new use cases, and new business models of the mobile future. Smruti's top two placement gets her a travel expenses paid trip to attend the Mobile Future Forward conference, an executive summit bringing together the top industry leaders of mobile technology. Congratulations, Smruti! |
100th Ph.D. GraduateThe Department of Computer Science and Engineering Celebrates its 100th Ph.D. Graduate!! UCR's CSE Department grew out of CS-oriented degree tracks in the departments of Mathematics and Applied Science in the early 1970s, and became a department in 1990. We are proud to announce that we have now graduated 100 Ph.D. students and would like to recognize Mr. Scott Sirowy with this distinction as our 100th, under the supervision of Dr. Frank Vahid! Scott graduated with his bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from UCR and entered our Ph.D. program in the Fall quarter of 2005. He officially completed his dissertation "Emulation of SystemC Applications for Portable FPGA Binaries" on May 26, 2010. Scott had a degree conferral date of June 11, and we wish him luck as he begins his employment at ESRI in Redlands. Good luck to Scott and to all of our 09-10 graduates! |
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NSF awards CSE graduate student FellowshipDan Grissom was one of four BCOE graduate students award the prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship. Dan joined CSE in Fall 2009 and is working under the advisement of Philip Brisk. His awarded proposal is on the topic of microfluidic system design. Microfluidics is a novel and exciting technology which allows execution of biochemical assays on a LoC. Currently, Microfluidic chips are designed for a specific application. Dan's proposal seeks to design a programmable, digital microfluidic system by solving critical challenges such as deadlock-free routing, scheduling, and fault-tolerance. |
CSE jumps 12 points in national graduate program rankThe 2011 US News and World Report has ranked CSE at 53rd best graduate program in computer science along with UC Santa Cruz, Arizona State University, Indiana University, and University of Pittsburgh. This is a notable jump from 65th where CSE was ranked previously. "We always knew that we belonged in top 50, but it takes time for the ranking agency to recognize it," remarks CSE Chair Bhuyan. For complete ranking of the computer science program, see US News website. |
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CSE team lands $800K for DARPA researchIulian Neamtiu, Stefano Lonardi, and Eamonn Keogh landed an 800K grant. The award is a subcontract to GE's ProLiFic proposal, which was accepted under DARPA BAA 10-36--Cyber Genome Program. The project will look at ways to defend against cyber attacks by quick malware identification and neutralization and tracing malicious code to its origins. “We are very excited to work on this project” says Keogh, “The team at GE came to us, after having surveyed the literature and decided that we had the best possible academic team in the US to work on this problem”. The whole grant is for $5.3M, out of which $800K will go to CSE. |