Members of Cyber@UCR's Cyber Defense team took second place at the Lockdown v14 Cyber Defense Competition hosted by the University of Buffalo!

Mahmudul Hasan is a former CSE Ph.D. student who now works at Comcast Research Labs. He is also leading a team that has received the Emmy Technology and Engineering Award.

A team led by researchers at UCR and Yale reports the first high-quality nuclear genome sequence and assembly of the pathogen B. duncani. The team also determined the 3D genome structure of this pathogen that resembles Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria-causing parasite. CSE PhD student Chakravarty and CSE Prof. Lonardi led the effort.

UCR CS students Xiaojun Dong and Letong Wang, and faculty members Yan Gu and Yihan Sun, won the best paper award at ACM SIGPLAN Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP) 2023, one of the top conferences on parallel computing and programming.

The UCR Programming teams attended the regional competition of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). In a tight competition among many excellent universities such as UCLA, UCSD, UCI, USC, and Caltech, UCR teams ranked as high as 12th.