Computer Science and Engineering

UCR Students Ranked Top in Programming Competition

The UCR Programming teams attended the regional competition of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). In a tight competition among many excellent universities such as UCLA, UCSD, UCI, USC, and Caltech, UCR teams ranked as high as 12th.

March 21, 2023

UCR Team Won Best Paper Award at PPoPP 2023

UCR CS students Xiaojun Dong and Letong Wang, and faculty members Yan Gu and Yihan Sun, won the best paper award at ACM SIGPLAN Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP) 2023, one of the top conferences on parallel computing and programming.

March 21, 2023

CSE Prof. Magdy has received the NSF CAREER award

CSE Professor Amr Magdy has received the NSF CAREER award to support his research on exploring scalable spatial data science. The project is titled "CAREER: Scalable Spatial Data Science on User-generated Data".

March 17, 2023

CSE Prof. Papalexakis receives second IEEE award within one academic year

Professor Vagelis Papalexakis has been named a winner of the Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award presented by the Signal Processing Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.

March 15, 2023

CSE Prof. Yin received Amazon Research Award

Prof. Heng Yin received Amazon Research Award of $80,000 and $20,000 AWS credits for his proposal "Next-Generation AI-Powered Binary Diffing".

January 30, 2023

High-performance numerical solvers for scalable and flexible simulation on modern hardware

CSE professor Craig Schroeder received the UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI), along with collaborators from UCLA and UC Davis, for the project "High-performance numerical solvers for scalable and flexible simulation on modern hardware."

December 07, 2022

CSE Prof. Papalexakis is the winner of the prestigious 2022 Tao Li Award

The award recognizes excellent researchers in the field of data mining and machine learning early in their career.

December 06, 2022

UCR places in cyber defence competition

Members of Cyber@UCR's Cyber Defense team took home second place at the Lockdown v13 Cyber Defense Competition hosted by University of Buffalo! The team competed against extremely competitive schools such as UC Berkeley and RIT.

October 25, 2022

CSE Professor Zhang's Work Awarded for SIGSOFT Research Highlight

CSE Professor Qian Zhang's research on differential testing of quantum software stacks was awarded an ACM SIGSOFT Research Highlight. SIGSOFT Research Highlights are selected from leading software engineering conferences to show recent, significant, and exciting results that are also of general interest to the computer science research community.

October 20, 2022

CSE Professor received DARPA YFA (Young Faculty Award)

CSE Professor Mohsen Lesani received the DARPA YFA (Young Faculty Award) for the project "Information and Vulnerability Flow Type Systems''.

September 15, 2022

Professor Keogh's Lab wins Test-of-Time Award

A team led by Dr. Keogh has won the ACM SIGKDD test-of-time award, recognizing outstanding papers from past KDD Conferences beyond the last decade.

August 15, 2022

CSE Professor received a new NSF grant

Professor Stefano Lonardi has received a new NSF grant on "Data-driven engineering of the thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus".

August 12, 2022

CSE team won best paper award in ASEE

CSE team S. Zhao, J. Allen, F. Vahid. won ASEE 2022 Best Paper Award -- Computers in Education division

August 11, 2022

CSE team won best paper award in ASEE

CSE team S. Zhao, J. Allen, F. Vahid. won ASEE 2022 Best Paper Award -- Computers in Education division August 15, 2022

August 11, 2022

CSE student wins Third Place in ACM Research Competition

CSE student Madhurima Chakraborty recently won third place in the graduate category of the 2022 ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Grand Finals.

June 24, 2022

CSE welcomes four new faculty this year

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...

June 10, 2022

UCR places first in cyber defence competition

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...

May 06, 2022

CSE team received best paper runner-up at EDBT

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...

April 03, 2022

CSE team received best paper award from ASPLOS

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...

March 04, 2022

CSE Professor received NIH's Transformative Research grant

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.

December 16, 2021

External News

June 16, 2025

Wafer-scale accelerators could redefine AI

The promise of a new type of computer chip that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence and be more environmentally friendly is explored in a technology review paper published by UC Riverside engineers in the journal Device.

June 11, 2025

UCR doctoral student selected for Department of Energy fellowship

Giovanni Rivera, a computer science doctoral student at UC Riverside, has been selected for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.

May 22, 2025

Empowering Engineers

A group of BCOE undergraduates who attended the 2025 Silicon Valley Women in Engineering conference said the event inspired and motivated them with its focus on successful women in engineering.

May 16, 2025

Seed of Inspiration

Computer Science and Engineering associate professor Amey Bhangale imparts cutting-edge knowledge to his students to be a “seed of inspiration” to pursue research.

May 15, 2025

Guarding the Grapevine

Computer Science and Engineering assistant professor Silas Richelson's passion for computing and communication allows him to advance research and share that knowledge with his students.

May 06, 2025

Ready to Launch

The IGNITE Student Professional Conference provided students with inspiration, learning, and networking during a professional development event that featured breakout sessions, an alumni panel, a career exhibition, and mock interviews.

April 14, 2025

Professor recognized by IEEE for pioneering work with microchips

Sheldon Tan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering, has been recognized as a fellow of the IEEE engineering professional group for his contributions to the advancement of microchips.