Professor Mingxun Wang was recognized on the Clarivate Analytics 2025 list of Highly Cited researchers list - which selected one out of every 1000 researchers . Dr. Wang was selected for his contributions in the cross discipline category. He joins five other faculty at UC Riverside that have also made the list. Read about all...
PhD student Zhuocheng Shang earned first place in the prestigious ACM SIGSPATIAL Graduate Student Research Competition (SRC) held in Minneapolis, MN. The award-winning research focuses on scalable satellite data processing, analysis, and visualization, with important applications in precision agriculture, including crop monitoring, yield prediction, and soil management.
The Computer Science and Engineering Department is proud to announce the recipients of this year's Laxmi Bhuyan Fellowship! This prestigious award recognizes excellence in research among our students. Congratulations to the 2025 Fellowship Recipients: Xiangyun Ding (Advisor: Yan Gu) Jingyao Zhang (Advisor: Elaheh Sadredini) Dawon Ahn (Advisor: Vagelis Papalexakis) Each awardee receives a $2,000 stipend...
Professor Rajiv Gupta and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh received an NSF grant titled “SHF: Small: Scalable and Versatile Evolving Graph Analytics” will support work to substantially advance the state of the art of evolving graph analytics.
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...
