Prof. K.K. Ramakrishnan is the recipient of the SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Contributions in 2024. The award is given to Prof. Ramakrishnan's "for pioneering, sustained contributions in the research, design and standardization of network congestion control and avoidance protocols, virtual private networks, operating systems support for networking, and carrier-grade voice over IP."
Yan Gu and Yihan Sun received 2024 Google Research Scholar Awards, which support early career professors pursuing research in fields relevant to Google. The program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors. The award-winning project by Yan and Yihan, titled...
This fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students pursuing PhDs in computer science, mathematics, physics, or statistics. Out of over 800 global applicants, only 40 students were selected and invited to New York City for the award ceremony. Xiaojun Dong from our department was among the distinguished invitees.
In recognition of Professor Laxmi N. Bhuyan's distinguished and prolific career, the Laxmi N. Bhuyan Endowed Fellowship has been established by his students, colleagues, friends, and family. This prestigious fellowship aims to honor and reward the top PhD students in the Computer Science and Engineering Department for their research achievements. This year, the fellowship has...
Professor Mingxun Wang, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team from UCSD, published a new paper in Nature titled "Reverse metabolomics for the discovery of chemical structures from humans". This highly interdisciplinary work combines innovations from combinatorial chemistry, mass spectrometry, and big data mining to explore new molecular space. This work sets the stage for future...
ISCB (the International Society for Computational Biology) is the leading professional society in the world for computational biology and bioinformatics. Its prestigious Fellows program was introduced in 2009 to honor members that have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. The selection of new Fellows each year is limited...
Dr. Yan Gu's CAREER award is titled: "Efficient Algorithms for Modern Computer Architecture", which focuses on designing efficient algorithms tailored for modern computer architecture.
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.
