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
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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. |
CSE team lands $800K for DARPA researchJulian 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. |
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CSE graduate student receives best paper award.Ph.D. student Bilson Campana (advised by Dr. Eamonn Keogh) won the best student paper award at the 2010 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. His paper introduces a new distance measure for comparing images, which significantly outperforms the current state of the art measures. The work was singled out because of its amazing generality, the measure can correctly group data as diverse as spiders, historical manuscripts, and as shown in the image above, butterflies and moths. Earlier this year Bilson won a Google fellowship, and he will be interning this year with Google. |
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. |
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Lonardi on Team Battling MalariaCSE Professor Stefano Lonardi is part of a UCR team that has identified a mechanism that allows malaria parasites to intensively replicate themselves in human blood. The discovery could lead to new drugs to combat the spread of the deadly disease. Study results have been published in the journal "Genome Research." Elena Harris, a Ph.D. student researcher in Lonardi's lab, was joint first author of the paper. Harris and Lonardi have been responsible for the analysis of this large dataset and extracting new biological knowledge in the process. Details appear here. |
Princeton Review recognizes CSE for top program in gamesCSE's program in video game design ranks in the Top 50 of 500 North American universities, according to The Princeton Review and GamePro Media. The Princeton Review developed its “Top 50 Undergraduate Game Design Programs” list – the first project of its kind – in partnership with GamePro, one of the most respected brands in the video game industry, reaching over 3 million gamers a month. UC Riverside is one of two UC campuses named to the Top 50 list and is featured in an article that will appear in the April issue of GamePro magazine. Details appear here. |
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New CSE FacultyThe Department is delighted to welcome Philip Brisk into its ranks. Philip conducts cutting-edge research in the areas of Reconfigurable computing; application-specific and customizable processors; computer architecture; compilers. You can find out more about Philip here. |
CSE Researchers Secure $6.8 Million in FundsCSE researchers raise over 6.8 million in funding for next five years and beyond. See: CSE AY 09-10 Grants List. NSF has awarded CSE PI's $800,000 to develop hardware/software hybrid high performance computing. Laxmi Bhuyan is the PI on the project. Rajiv Gupta and Walid Najjar are Co-PIs. Michalis Faloutsos also lands funding as part of a grant with the ARO’s Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA.) CSE’s part of the grant is $320K/year for 5 years, renewable to 10. |
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