Department News
18
Nov
Faculty members receive
NSF award for study on
NoSQL databases
CSE professors Vagelis
Hristidis (PI), Ahmed
Eldawy and Vassilis
Tsotras received a
$1,350,000 NSF award to
study the performance
of NoSQL databases.
This is a collaborative
grant, jointly with
UCI, totaling
$1,950,000. UCR is the
lead institution.
08
Nov
BioScript: Safe
programming on
Laboratories-on-a-Chip
awarded distinguished
paper award!
Ph.D. students Jason
Ott and Tyson Loveless,
working with Chris
Curtis, Dr. Mohsen
Lesani, and Dr. Philip
Brisk have developed a
new programming
language aimed at
making the lives of
chemists and biologists
safer and easier...
05
Nov
Dr. Magdy awarded a
CSforAll grant for his
work on geo-computation
outreach to students
Prof. Amr Magdy from
Computer Science and
Engineering Dept. and
Prof. Sergio Rey from
Center for Geospatial
Sciences has been
awarded an NSF CSforAll
grant in collaboration
with the American
Association of
Geographers and...
01
Oct
New $1 million NSF
grant secured by UCR
researchers
UCR team consisting
of Amr Magdy and
Vassilis Tsotras from
CSE, and Serge Rey and
Ran Wei from Center for
Geospatial Sciences
wins the NSF award
titled "Scalable
Geospatial Analytics
for Social Science...
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26
Sep
Unfixable security
vulnerability covered
by ACM
The USENIX Security
work done by PhD
student Weiteng Chen
and Prof. Zhiyun Qian
got covered by ACM
TechNews and
Communications of ACM.
The vulnerability
allows a blind attacker
to hijack TCP
connections...
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16
Aug
Khasawneh invited to
give a talk at IBM
Research workshop
Khaled Khasawneh (CS
PhD) has been invited
to give a talk at the
2018 IBM Workshop on
Architectures for
Secure, Cognitive, and
Datacenter Computing,
held at IBM Research in
Yorktown, NY. This
workshop is an...
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05
Aug
MAD Lab collaboration
with Snap Research
featured in the news
The research division
of Snap Inc. donated
gift funding to Prof.
Papalexakis'
Multi-aspect Data Lab
that establishes their
research collaboration
on the lab's efforts in
fake news detection. As
part of the...
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Papalexakis
28
Jul
ScienceNews article on
UCR fake news detection
research
The fake news detection
work by the
Multi-aspect Data Lab
was featured in a
Science News article.
In this work, Prof.
Papalexakis with two
graduate students Gisel
Bastidas (MS, pictured
right) and Sara Abdali
(PhD...
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and Gisel
Upcoming Events
CSE Graduate Open House
December
1, 2018 @ 10:00 am
Winston Chung 205/206
Attend our CSE graduate
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December 1, 2018!
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COLLOQUIUM: Sequence to
Sequence Learning and
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November
30, 2018 @ 11:10 am
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Yonghui Wu, Google,
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November
16, 2018 @ 11:10 am
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Philip A. Bernstein,
Microsoft Research
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COLLOQUIUM: Whole
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Rare Disease
November
09, 2018 @ 11:10 am
Bourns A125
Semyon Kruglyak,
Illumina, Inc.
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Event:COLLOQUIUM:
Whole Genome
Sequencing for Rare
Disease
Facts and Impacts
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