Computer Science and Engineering

Two UC Riverside students have received prestigious awards from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, or ASMS, one of the world’s leading organizations dedicated to advancing mass spectrometry research.

Two CSE instructors received honorable mentions from UC Riverside's Academy of Distinguished Teachers (ADT) on May 20th. Kelly Downey was awarded an honorable mention for the Lecturer Award, and Harini Venkatesan was awarded an honorable mention for the Graduate Student–Postdoc Instructor of Record Award. Link: https://academyteachers.ucr. edu/ (see "Awards")

Dr. Ben Stewart (BCOE) and Prof. Faloutsos (CSE) are part of a multi-institutional team that has secured a $4M grant from the Department of Education to develop the Civic Openness, Reasoning, and Engagement (CORE) Incubator. Led by Susan Hackwood (UCR/CCST) and involving researchers from George Mason University and the National Science Policy Network (NSPN), this four-year initiative aims to strengthen civic engagement and public policy discourse. The CORE Incubator will focus on providing training in communication, mediation, and leadership for young adults, as well as conducting advanced

A paper co-authored by Prof. Karamouzas received a Best Paper Award at the 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D 2026), held at Lucasfilm in San Francisco. The paper, "Gen-C: Populating Virtual Worlds with Generative Crowds," is authored by Andreas Panayiotou, Panayiotis Charalambous, and Ioannis Karamouzas. i3dsymposium Link: https://i3dsymposium.org/2026/ awards.html