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
UC Riverside group (Darki, Rokon, Faloutsos, Islam and Papalexakis) have developed a tool called "SourceFinder" that pinpoints online malware source code repositories such as GitHub with 98% accuracy.
This paper led by PhD students Chengshuo Xu, Abbas Mazloumi, Xiaolin Jiang, and their advisor Prof. Rajiv Gupta has won one of the two Best Paper Awards at IEEE HiPC 2020.
Prof. K. K. Ramakrishnan (of our CSE Department at University of California, Riverside) and Dr. Jiachen Chen (WINLAB, Rutgers University) received awards in the NIST Tech-to-protect challenge.
The Cyber team at UCR competed in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) and were announced as one of the wildcard winners moving on to the national competition.
CSE Ph.D. Student Aditya Dhakal and Professor K. K. Ramakrishnan together with their collaborator Dr. Sameer Kulkarni (IIT Gandhinagar, until recently also at UCR as a post-doctoral fellow)
The paper led by PhD student Keyu Man, Zhongjie Wang, and their advisor Prof. Zhiyun Qian has won the one and only Distinguished Paper Award this year at ACM CCS.
A demonstration paper by a recent PhD graduate Saheli Ghosh, PhD student Akil Sevim, and Prof. Ahmed Eldawy received best demo award at the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference.
UCR has launched a new Data Science major, an intercollegiate partnership between the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Statistics.
