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), and Business Informatics, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, and we participate in the Computer Engineering Program (ABET accredited). 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, 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 22 tenure-track faculty that include three ACM Fellows, four IEEE Fellows, five AAAS Fellows, one NSF Presidential Young Investigator, one AFOSR Young Investigator, and seven NSF CAREER award holders. Our external research funding is around $3.5 million per year. Although relatively young, we have quickly become a well established and well known research department, with 174 graduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.) enrolled in the 2011-12 academic year. We graduate approximately 15 Ph.D. students per year and place them in highly respected organizations, and in June of 2010 we celebrated our 100th Ph.D. graduate. 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 Shines in New NRC RankingsThe National Research Council's long-awaited ranking of PhD programs, widely accepted as the gold standard, places CSE's in the top echelons of programs nationwide. Our relatively young program places well ahead of many solidly-established national leaders. This is not surprising - these rankings are based on actual data for 20 quality metrics, while typical rankings are greatly influenced by perception. CSE excels in Research, as well as in overall ranking of program quality. NRC's rankings have been designed not to skew in favor of large programs, a typical bias in most rankings. CSE's outstanding per-capita productivity allows CSE to showcase its quality. NRC uses two ranking approaches, called the S- and the R-rankings, respectively. S-rankings are computed by asking respondents how each of the 20 quality metrics should be weighted while the R-ranking method first obtains ratings for a set of programs by asking respondents to rate random subsets. It then derives the weights implicit in these ratings by regressing the program ratings against the values for the metrics. See for yourself how well CSE compares with other programs in the University of California, as well as nationwide. For more information on the process and to download the data, see the NRC website. |
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CSE's Iulian Neamtiu Receives NSF CAREER AwardAssistant professor Iulian Neamtiu has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. The CAREER program targets outstanding new faculty who intend to develop academic careers involving both research and education. Neamtiu will receive a total of $498,228 over five years to fund his efforts in improving software evolution. Changes made to source code in the course of evolution might not have the intended meaning (fix bugs, add features), which negatively impacts both software producers and software consumers, and has high economic costs. His work will use type theory and empirical software engineering to better understand, and facilitate the software evolution process. The results of this research will also help uncover certain kinds of errors before software is deployed, and reduce the incidence of, and costs associated with, software bugs and incorrect software updates. |
CSE's Srikanth Krishnamurthy Elected IEEE FellowDr. Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, a professor in the CSE Department, has been elected to the rank of IEEE Fellow. Dr. Krishnamurthy was elevated for his contributions to "Cross Layer Protocol Design in Wireless Networks." Over the last ten years, Dr. Krishnamurthy has made significant contributions to understanding the interactions between the protocol stack in wireless networks. IEEE Fellow ``is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation." The total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership. |
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CSE's Rajiv Gupta Elected AAAS FellowCSE's Rajiv Gupta has been elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow. The AAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. Each year the AAAS Council elects members whose “efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished.” Dr. Gupta's areas of research interest include Compilers and Architectures for Parallel Systems, Software Tools for Monitoring and Debugging, and Dynamic and Static Program Analysis. His research has been funded by NSF, DARPA, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and HP. He has published over 225 articles in refereed conferences and journals and he holds 8 US patents. |
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CSE's new faculty, Dr. Vagelis HristidisVagelis Hristidis joined as Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, Google, IBM and the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Center, including the NSF CAREER Award. His main research addresses the problem of bridging the gap between databases and information retrieval, with particular interest in the interdisciplinary direction of Healthcare Informatics. His work has received more than 2,500 citations according to Google Scholar. He has also edited and co-authored the book “Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records”. |
CSE's new faculty and inaugural chair, Dr. Tamar Shinar!Tamar Shinar will join CSE faculty as the inaugural Amrik Singh Poonian Chair in Fall 2011. Currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Courant Institute at New York University, Shinar earned her Ph.D. in scientific computing and computational mathematics from Stanford University in 2008. Her research focuses on mathematical simulations of fluid and solid behaviors and computational algorithms for physically based simulation. The Amrik Singh Poonian Chair in Computer Science and Engineering was established through a generous endowment gift from Duane and Kelly Roberts, keepers of Riverside’s historic Mission Inn and Spa. For more info see here. here. Congratulations and welcome, Tamar! |
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CSE Ph.D. wins prestigious national HP award
Tony Givargis (Ph.D. 2001 UC Riverside, now Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Irvine) was selected to receive the 2011 Frederick Emmons Terman Award of the American Society for Engineering Education. The prestigious national award, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, is bestowed annually upon an outstanding young electrical engineering educator in recognition of his/her contributions to the profession, including the publication of an electrical engineering textbook judged to be outstanding by peers. The textbook recognized by the award committee was the widely-used and field-defining book "Embedded System Design" (John Wiley and Sons, 2001), co-authored by Givargis while at UCR with Professor Frank Vahid. The award includes an honorarium, medal, and presentation scroll, to be presented to Givargis at the Frontiers in Education Conference in October (2011), where Givargis will give a keynote speech. The award's namesake, Silicon Valley pioneer F.E. Terman, was an electrical engineering professor and Stanford University administrator known for mentoring students who went on to establish successful businesses, including William Hewlett and David Packard. |
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CSE student wins National Physical Science Consortium FellowshipCSE Ph.D. student Jonathan Dautrich Jr. has been recently awarded the National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC) Fellowship. Jonathan won this award based on his scholarship and proposed research on investigating metrics for measuring privacy loss in outsourced encrypted databases, and devising algorithms for computing those metrics efficiently. The award provides support for dissertation research up to four years. Congrats Jonathan! |
UCR adds Games AcademyCSE joins forces with Game Developers Academy to offer a new summer program on Video Game Creation and Design. The summer academy is geared toward incoming freshmen and lower-division undergraduates as an introduction to the game development industry and provides a hands-on experience in state-of-the art software environments. The program is being offered through the Extension Center in July this summer. For details, download thecourse description or visit the Extension website. |
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