CSE student Dawon Ahn won the Best Short Presentation Award for the paper titled "Global and Local Structure Learning for Sparse Tensor Completion". The paper was presented as part of the Doctoral Forum at the IEEE BigData 2024 conference that took place in Washington DC during December 15-18 2024.

Former CSE Ph.D. student Xin Liang, now an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky (UK), received the TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award.

CSE Professor Zizhong Chen's paper "SZ3: A Modular Framework for Composing Prediction-Based Error-Bounded Lossy Compressors," has been awarded the 2023 Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Big Data by the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board.

Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electricity to the fast-growing number of computer processing centers. This air pollution, a new UCR and Caltech study estimates, is expected to result in as many as 1,300 premature deaths a year by 2030 in the United States and bring health costs to nearly $20 billion a year.