Recently, the Spring team announced new null-safety features in the latest Spring Boot release. These improvements prominently rely on NullAway, a static-analysis tool developed by Professor Manu Sridharan and his research group. Spring Boot Framework, as used by millions of Java applications, now recommends NullAway for build-time nullness checking to help developers eliminate NullPointerExceptions and adopt modern, standardized null-safety practices. This integration highlights the growing industry impact of Professor Sridharan and UCR's research in advancing safe, reliable software

Researchers from CSE, Professor Yue Dong and her PhD student Haz Sameen Shahgir, have developed BiRNA-BERT, a new RNA language model capable of processing full-length RNA sequences without the truncation limitations seen in prior models. This breakthrough allows the model to handle long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in their entirety, achieving state-of-the-art performance in lncRNA interaction prediction. Ongoing work aims to extend BiRNA-BERT to RNA-based homology search, opening new possibilities for studying evolutionary relationships that were previously inaccessible to language-model-based

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

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 .