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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.

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.

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CSE team received Special Paper Award

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

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.

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".

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.

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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.

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/

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.

Professor Papalexakis earns distinguished teaching award

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

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

CSE Professor Papalexakis received the NSF CAREER award

The award will support work on autonomous tensor analysis.

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.

CSE professor Chengyu Song received the NSF CAREER award

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

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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!
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CSE Team Created the Largest Malware Source Code Database

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.
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CSE team received Best Paper Award in IEEE HiPC 2020

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.
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CSE team awarded in the NIST Tech-to-protect challenge

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.
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Cyber@UCR moving on to national round of CPTC

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.

External News

Wafer scale computer chip
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.
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Giovanni Rivera
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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