Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electricity to the fast-growing number of computer processing centers. This air pollution, a new UCR and Caltech study estimates, is expected to result in as many as 1,300 premature deaths a year by 2030 in the United States and bring health costs to nearly $20 billion a year. 

CSE professor Amr Magdy and his PhD students Yongyi Liu, Yunfan Kang, and Mohammed Reza won the Best Demo Award at the ACM Conference on Spatial Data (ACM SIGSPATIAL) 2024.

UCR’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) has been awarded a $2 million grant over six years from the National Science Foundation to expand educational opportunities for scholarships for low-income students.

CSE student Yongyi Liu won first place in the Student Research Competition in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2024, the graduate track. Yongyi will represent SIGSPATIAL in the grand finals of the ACM SRC.