Computer Science and Engineering

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

Madhurima Chakraborty wins ACM Student Research Competition

CSE student Madhurima Chakraborty took first place in the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) at the 2021 SPLASH.

October 25, 2021

CSE professor receives Next Generation Data Scientist Award

Vagelis Papalexakis received the Next Generation Data Scientist Award from the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics.

October 05, 2021

CSE team received Special Paper Award

Professor Ramakrishnan's team received Special Paper Award for their paper in the IEEE Cloud 2021 Conference

September 28, 2021

CSE Professors received Facebook Research Award on VR/AR

Prof. Jiasi Chen and Prof. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh have received funding from Facebook Research, on the topic of "Location tampering in multi-user augmented reality: attacks and defenses".

September 27, 2021

UCR-Star receives IT Innovation Award Honorable Mention

UCR-Star (https://ucrstar.com), led by Prof. Ahmed Eldawy, received this award from UCOP in recognition of its contribution to the university's mission in teaching, research, and public service.

August 20, 2021

CSE Professor received NSF award on Teaching Introductory CS

CSE Professor Frank Vahid received a new NSF grant titled "Title: Teaching introductory CS: Shifting from detecting/punishing cheating to gaining programming behavior insight".

August 17, 2021

CSE student Sara Abdali selected as 2021 CI Fellow

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.

July 27, 2021

CSE and MSE to study optimal control of quantum systems

PI Bryan Wong (MSE) and co-PIs Zizhong Chen and Christian Shelton (CSE) received a Department of Energy award.

July 23, 2021

New NSF award for finding publicly available malware source

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/

July 23, 2021

CSE Professor Eldawy receives the NSF CAREER award

This award will support novel research towards enabling data science on geospatial data for students, domain scientists, and citizen scientists.

July 22, 2021

Professor Papalexakis earns distinguished teaching award

Vagelis Papalexakis earned the 2021 BCOE Distinguished Teaching Award which recognizes excellence in teaching at the college.

June 18, 2021

CSE Professor Received Doctoral Dissertation Faculty Award

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

May 21, 2021

CSE Professor Papalexakis received the NSF CAREER award

The award will support work on autonomous tensor analysis.

May 14, 2021

ICPC team advances to North American Division Championship

The UCR team, RGBMoon, will be one of nine teams advancing to the ICPC North American Division Championship.

March 19, 2021

CSE professor Chengyu Song received the NSF CAREER award

Professor Song received the NSF CAREER award for his work on "scalable of concolic execution."

March 05, 2021

UCR advances in first place in cyber defence competition

UCR team has advanced in regional cyber defence competition (WRCCDC) qualifier round as the first place!

February 07, 2021

External News

September 18, 2025

UCR computer scientists boost US cybersecurity

UCR computer scientists are developing tools to expose hidden cybersecurity vulnerabilities, protect private data, and strengthen the digital defenses that safeguard everything from personal communications to national infrastructure.

September 03, 2025

NSF grants to advance safer roads, smarter maps, and more trustworthy robots

Three UCR engineering scholars win more than $1 million to advance their research 

August 28, 2025

UCR pioneers way to remove private data from AI models

UC Riverside Innovation addresses need to strip AI models of private and copyrighted content.

Photo of UCR data science students posing in an open courtyard for a group photo.

August 07, 2025

Data-Driven, Future-Ready

UCR Engineering marks the five-year anniversary of an undergraduate degree program in data science it launched with the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences to draw women and other students who aren’t commonly represented in STEM.

July 18, 2025

UC Riverside scientists develop tool to detect fake videos

UCR computer scientists team up with Google scientists to develop an artificial intelligence model that detects fake videos — even when manipulations go far beyond face swaps and altered speech.

Photo of eight participants of the UC Riverside Engineering FAME workshop with BCOE Dean Chris Lynch in the center of the photo.

July 16, 2025

Fostering Future Faculty

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the country found the support and guidance through a new FAME program geared to recruit and mentor future faculty mentors.

Photo of robot arm in the UCR Mechanical Engineering Design and Development Lab

July 16, 2025

Revved Up on Robots

Brandon Marcus's robotics and artificial intelligence research and recent co-authorship of a major paper accepted to the 2025 CASE conference mark a few of his successes as the second BCOE student to graduate with a bachelor's degree in robotics.