Computer Science and Engineering

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.

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

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

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.

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/

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

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

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

The award will support work on autonomous tensor analysis.

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

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