Professor Heng Yin and his student Lian Gao received the Distinguished Paper Award in the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2025, for their paper titled "BinDSA: Efficient, Precise Binary-Level Pointer Analysis with Context-Sensitive Heap Reconstruction”.
CSE Professor Ahmed Eldawy has received the Ten-Year Influential Paper Award at ICDE 2025, alongside Professor Mohamed Mokbel from the University of Minnesota, for their groundbreaking 2015 paper, "SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data." This prestigious award honors a paper that has stood the test of time and made a lasting impact a decade...
CSE Professor Emiliano De Cristofaro and his student Georgi Ganev received the Distinguished Paper Award in IEEE Security and Privacy 2025. The paper is titled 'The Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics: Privacy Attacks against "Truly Anonymous" Synthetic Datasets'.
Silas Richelson is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering who studies theoretical computer science, cryptography, and security. His CAREER project will explore the subtle connection between the mathematical discipline "pseudorandomness" and "codes", which are the main gadgets which enable error-free communication across a noisy channel. The broad goal of the work is to...
Amey Bhangale received his CAREER award titled "CAREER: Analytic and Algebraic Methods in Approximating CSPs and Their Applications". The project aims to develop optimal approximation algorithms for a broad class of problems known as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs).
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.
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.
CSE student Yongyi Liu won first place in the Student Research Competition in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2024, the graduate track. Yongyi will represent SIGSPATIAL in the grand finals of the ACM SRC.
CSE professor Amr Magdy and his PhD students Yongyi Liu, Yunfan Kang, and Mohammed Reza won the Best Demo Award at the ACM Conference on Spatial Data (ACM SIGSPATIAL) 2024.
Two UCR undergraduates, Michael Chen and Freddy Song, were named finalists in a design contest this summer and invited to an AMD Advancing AI Event in San Francisco this week.
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...
