UCR leads $8 million effort for dynamic and secure computer networks to benefit military needs and civilian applications.

PhD student Zhuocheng Shang earned first place in the prestigious ACM SIGSPATIAL Graduate Student Research Competition (SRC) held in Minneapolis, MN. The award-winning research focuses on scalable satellite data processing, analysis, and visualization, with important applications in precision agriculture, including crop monitoring, yield prediction, and soil management.

Professor Mingxun Wang was recognized on the Clarivate Analytics 2025 list of Highly Cited researchers list - which selected one out of every 1000 researchers . Dr. Wang was selected for his contributions in the cross discipline category. He joins five other faculty at UC Riverside that have also made the list. Read about all of them here: https://insideucr.ucr.edu/ awards/2025/11/17/ucr- researchers-recognized-highly- cited-2025 .

When Alisa Perales was a year old she began learning her ABC’s and 123’s. By the time she was 4, she could name the capitals of the world and the bones in a human body. Now at 11 years old, she’s solving advanced mathematical proofs as a computer science major at UC Riverside. Alisa, who started this fall, appears to be the youngest student to enroll at UCR, according to alumni records. She transferred to UCR after completing two associate degrees at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, where she became a student at the age of 8.