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Prof. Vagelis Papalexakis

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.
UCR places in cyber defence competition

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.
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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.

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''.

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.
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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".

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
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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
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...

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.

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".

External News

Daniel Petras and Mingxun Wang
September 21, 2026
Two UCR researchers named to Analytical Scientist’s Top 40 Under 40
Daniel Petras and Mingxun Wang recognized for innovative research and emerging leadership
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September 15, 2026
FutureFarmNow Makes Complex Agricultural Data Easier to Use
Satellite imagery and soil databases can help farmers and researchers understand conditions across agricultural land, but working with those datasets often requires specialized software, computing resources, and technical expertise. A team led by UC Riverside researchers built FutureFarmNow to make that information easier to access and use.
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August 12, 2026
UCR researchers join DOE effort to speed scientific discovery
Two UC Riverside computer scientists are joining federally funded projects that use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. Their work will focus on making quantum computing faster and more reliable and building smarter networks for sharing scientific data and research resources.
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Dozens of small computer screen all displaying different content.
July 24, 2026
New tool identifies the sources of fake videos
As AI-generated fake videos become more problematic, UC Riverside computer scientists developed a tool that moves beyond simply identifying whether a video is fake. It also determines which AI system created it.
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Michael Strobel & Rithi Krishnaraj
June 15, 2026
UCR students earn national honors from mass spectrometry society
Two UC Riverside students have received prestigious awards from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, or ASMS, one of the world’s leading organizations dedicated to advancing mass spectrometry research.
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Erfan Shayegani
June 08, 2026
AI consortium names UCR doctoral student as a 'rising star'
UC Riverside graduate student Erfan Shayegani has been named a 2026 MLCommons Rising Star, an honor recognizing emerging researchers whose work is helping shape the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and computing systems.
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Conceptual image of AI searches summaries favoring logic over ethos & pathos
May 26, 2026
Filtering out humanity
Is the internet losing its soul? A collaborative study by UC Riverside computer and social scientists suggests so. As artificial intelligence increasingly answers our online questions with quick summaries and polished explanations, we may be gaining efficiency while losing something distinctly human in the process.
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