A collaborative team including CSE PhD student Ashley Pang, Associate Professor Paea LePendu, Professor Mariam Salloum, and Professor Neftali Watkinson, along with Northeastern University's Professor Carla Brodley, has received the Best Paper Award at the 2026 ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS). Their award-winning paper, "Creating a Second Pathway to Computing Majors," details the birth and evolution of UCR's CS 9 series. The team will be officially presented with the award this February in St. Louis.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is proud to share that CSE Distinguished Professor-Emeritus Laxmi Bhuyan has been awarded the UCR Emeriti Association Distinguished Emeriti Award. This prestigious honor recognizes emeriti faculty who have set a high standard of achievement in research, teaching, or service during their years since retirement. Professor Bhuyan’s continued contributions exemplify sustained excellence and lasting impact within the community.

UCR researchers develop a method called Test-Time Matching, an approach that significantly improves how AI systems interpret relationships between text and images, especially when presented with unfamiliar combinations.

Recently, the Spring team announced new null-safety features in the latest Spring Boot release. These improvements prominently rely on NullAway, a static-analysis tool developed by Professor Manu Sridharan and his research group. Spring Boot Framework, as used by millions of Java applications, now recommends NullAway for build-time nullness checking to help developers eliminate NullPointerExceptions and adopt modern, standardized null-safety practices. This integration highlights the growing industry impact of Professor Sridharan and UCR's research in advancing safe, reliable software