The department will welcome four new faculty member members this coming year! First row from left to right: Dr. Qian Zhang, specializes in software engineering. Qian is currently a postdoc at UCLA and earned her Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Mingxun Wang, specializes in bioinformatics. Mingxun earned his Ph.D. from UCSD...
Members of Cyber@UCR's Cyber Defense team took home first place at the Lockdown v12 Cyber Defense Competition hosted by University of Buffalo! The team competed against extremely competitive schools such as UC Berkeley and RIT. Pictured Left to Right: Adil Mohiuddin, CE, Freshman Nathan Melwani, Team Captain, CS, Sophomore Justin Lee, CS, Freshman Kobe Braga...
A team consisting of CSE professor Vassilis Tsotras and student Christina Pavlopoulou, together with Prof. Michael J. Carey from UCI has received best paper runner-up at EDBT. The paper is titled " Revisiting Runtime Dynamic Optimization for Join Queries in Big Data Management Systems". This paper considers an old problem and an early solution within...
The paper from CSE Professor Zhijia Zhao and his student received the best paper award at ASPLOS 2022. The paper is titled "JSONSki: Streaming Semi-Structured Data with Bit-Parallel Fast-Forwarding" by Lin Jiang and Zhijia Zhao. Abstract of the paper: Semi-structured data, such as JSON, are fundamental to the Web and document data stores. Streaming analytics...
Professor Stefano Lonardi received a new grant from NIH Director?s Transformative Research program, on using AI originally developed for producing deepfake videos to stop future pandemics.
Prof. Jiasi Chen and Prof. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh have received funding from Facebook Research, on the topic of "Location tampering in multi-user augmented reality: attacks and defenses".
UCR-Star (https://ucrstar.com), led by Prof. Ahmed Eldawy, received this award from UCOP in recognition of its contribution to the university's mission in teaching, research, and public service.
CSE Professor Frank Vahid received a new NSF grant titled "Title: Teaching introductory CS: Shifting from detecting/punishing cheating to gaining programming behavior insight".
CSE student Sara Abdali was selected for the highly-prestigious 2021 Computing Innovation Fellowship, funded by the National Science Foundation, to pursue postdoctoral research at Georgia Tech.
A new project led by Prof. Faloutsos promises to provide a massive database of available malware source code. The project is funded by NSF SaTC. Early results: http://hackerchatter.org/sourcefinder/
Prof. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh received the Doctoral Dissertation Faculty Award which is a campus-wide award to faculty who provide excellent mentorship and support of their graduate students
