CSE professor Amr Magdy and his CSE students Yongyi Liu and Yunfan Kang won the runner-up for the Best Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Spatial Data (ACM SIGSPATIAL) 2023.
CSE professor Amr Magdy wins a Microsoft research award to support his research on enabling machine-learning-based spatial data analysis on edge devices.
Elaheh's proposal titled "Enabling Memory-Centric Computing from Internet of Things to Cloud" facilitates the paradigm shift from compute-centric systems to memory-centric systems and seamlessly and securely integrates them into today's modern systems.
Yihan's research focuses on designing scalable parallel algorithms with both strong theoretical guarantees and high performance in practice. The project aims to build theoretical foundations to achieve simple and practical parallel algorithms.
The award is for "Dynamic Time Warping Averaging of Time Series allows Faster and more Accurate Classification" which Dr. Keogh wrote with his student Yanping Chen and collaborators from Australia and France. This is the second 10-year highest-impact paper award that Dr. Keogh’s lab has won in recent years, with a 10-year highest-impact paper award...
The paper is “Matrix Profile XXIX: C22MP: Fusing catch22 and the Matrix Profile to Produce an Efficient and Interpretable Anomaly Detector”, by Sadaf Tafazoli, Yue Lu, Renjie Wu, Thirumalai Srinivas, Hannah Dela Cruz, Ryan Mercer, and Eamonn Keogh. Co-author Yue Lu will present the work in Shanghai, China in December.
The paper titled "Jailbreak in Pieces: Compositional Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Modal Language Models" by CSE researchers won the Best Paper Award at the SoCal NLP Symposium.
The UCR team made history in the regional contest of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) on Oct 28! UCR ranked 4th overall based on the performance of “Team 10”.
In the recent International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Data (SSTD'23), one of the prominent venues for spatial research, two papers from UCR were selected among the meeting's top 5 papers that will also be invited for a special journal issue.
CSE PhD Student Xin Zhang, advised by Prof. Eldawy, won second place at the prestigious ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) and was awarded the silver medal. Recognized as the premier database conference, ACM SIGMOD's SRC witnesses participation from top graduate students across leading research institutions, showcasing their best work.
Group Members from UCR PAL have won multiple research awards recently, including a Best Paper Award at ESA 2023, a Best Student Presentation Prize at ACDA 2023, and a Best Paper Runner-Up at VLDB 2023. More information can be found at the UCR Parallel Algorithm Lab: https://pal.cs.ucr.edu/.
CSE professor Vassilis Tsotras and student Christina Pavlopoulou received the SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper titled "Revisiting Runtime Dynamic Optimization for Join Queries in Big Data Management Systems".
CSE professor Amr Magdy wins a competitive Google-CAHSI research award (acceptance rate 11%) to support his research on enabling spatial regionalization in big data systems.
CSE student Laila Abdelhafeez and CSE professors Amr Magdy and Vassilis Tsotras won the Runner-Up for the Best Paper Award at IEEE Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2023.
A team consisting of CSE professor Zizhong Chen and PhD student Yujia Zhai, together with researchers from ByteDance and NVIDIA received best paper award at IPDPS 2023, one of the top conferences on parallel and distributed processing.
Mahmudul Hasan is a former CSE Ph.D. student who now works at Comcast Research Labs. He is also leading a team that has received the Emmy Technology and Engineering Award.
A team led by researchers at UCR and Yale reports the first high-quality nuclear genome sequence and assembly of the pathogen B. duncani. The team also determined the 3D genome structure of this pathogen that resembles Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria-causing parasite. CSE PhD student Chakravarty and CSE Prof. Lonardi led the effort.
The UCR Programming teams attended the regional competition of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). In a tight competition among many excellent universities such as UCLA, UCSD, UCI, USC, and Caltech, UCR teams ranked as high as 12th.
