Computer Science and Engineering

A UC Riverside computer science professor will join a $4.8 million National Science Foundation-funded research effort aimed at making aviation safer by developing smarter and more reliable communications for aircraft and airports.

CSE Professor Emiliano De Cristofaro and his students devised the first attack on “privacy-preserving” LLM-based insights systems, i.e., platforms like Anthropic’s Clio that analyze real-world chats with AI assistants to extract aggregate insights about how people use them, showing their privacy claims don’t hold up in practice. The paper is accepted to NeurIPS '26 (oral). There were 30709 valid paper submissions to the NeurIPS Main Track this year, of which the program committee accepted 7900 (25.7%) papers in total, with breakdown of 7496 as posters, 292 as spotlight and 112 as oral.

CSE Professor Rajiv Gupta is chosen to join the inaugural class of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy. The Academy is launched to mark 50 years of SIGSOFT and look ahead to the next decades of our software engineering community. The Academy will honor individuals whose cumulative contributions have shaped software engineering through research, innovation, and service.

This prestigious, permanent status is limited to the top 0.5% of our members and affiliates. It honors your long-term association with the Computer Society and your significant, ongoing technical contributions to the Computer Society, computing profession, computing community, and society in general.