Evangelos “Vagelis” Papalexakis, a professor and Ross Family Chair in Computer Science at UC Riverside, has been selected to participate in a prestigious national symposium hosted by the National Academy of Engineering. 

Professor Heng Yin and his student Lian Gao received the Distinguished Paper Award in the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2025, for their paper titled "BinDSA: Efficient, Precise Binary-Level Pointer Analysis with Context-Sensitive Heap Reconstruction”.

CSE Professor Ahmed Eldawy has received the Ten-Year Influential Paper Award at ICDE 2025, alongside Professor Mohamed Mokbel from the University of Minnesota, for their groundbreaking 2015 paper, "SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data." This prestigious award honors a paper that has stood the test of time and made a lasting impact a decade after its publication.

The promise of a new type of computer chip that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence and be more environmentally friendly is explored in a technology review paper published by UC Riverside engineers in the journal Device.