CSE professor Amr Magdy wins a competitive Google-CAHSI research award (acceptance rate 11%) to support his research on enabling spatial regionalization in big data systems. The supported research explores finding common constructs of spatial regionalization queries to be supported in SQL-like query processing pipelines as a system component. The award supports Hispanic students at both UCR and San Diego State University (SDSU) in collaboration with Dr. Hajar Homayouni to increase the capacity of Hispanic student researchers in Southern California.