Computer Science and Engineering

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.

December 09, 2020

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.

December 09, 2020

CSE team won the Best Student Paper award at IEEE CloudNet

CSE Ph.D. Student Aditya Dhakal and Professor K. K. Ramakrishnan together with their collaborator Dr. Sameer Kulkarni (IIT Gandhinagar, until recently also at UCR as a post-doctoral fellow)

November 24, 2020

CSE team received Distinguished Paper Award in ACM CCS 2020

The paper led by PhD student Keyu Man, Zhongjie Wang, and their advisor Prof. Zhiyun Qian has won the one and only Distinguished Paper Award this year at ACM CCS.

November 12, 2020

CSE team received best demo award at ACM SIGSPATIAL

A demonstration paper by a recent PhD graduate Saheli Ghosh, PhD student Akil Sevim, and Prof. Ahmed Eldawy received best demo award at the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference.

November 10, 2020

Prof. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh inducted to Micro Hall of Fame

Prof. Abu-Ghazaleh's group had 3 papers accepted to IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro) this year.

October 29, 2020

UC Riverside launches Data Science major

UCR has launched a new Data Science major, an intercollegiate partnership between the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Statistics.

October 20, 2020

CSE professors received a best paper honorable mention in SCA 2020

Professors Craig Schroeder and Tamar Shinar along with visiting student Yunxin Sun received best paper honorable mention at SCA for their work on graphics simulation.

October 11, 2020

UCR receives fund to grow women participation in computing

The University of California Riverside (UCR) is among four institutions to receive the 2020 NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund to increase the number of women in computing.

September 23, 2020

CSE Prof. Amr Magdy has received a new NSF award

Professor Amr Magdy has been awarded a new multi-institution NSF grant to explore new educational developments for geography curriculum incorporating geospatial technology.

September 15, 2020

UCR-spun company placed 2nd, advancing to World Cup Championship of Entrepreneurship

FarmSense, a company spun out of UCR by Dr. Keogh and Dr. Singh (a former Ph.D. Student of Dr. Krishnamurthy) won second place at the USA Cup Championship of Entrepreneurship.

September 11, 2020

CSE professor received NSF award on graph processing

Profesor Rajiv Gupta received an NSF award titled "SHF: Small: MIGS -- Efficiently Evaluating Multiple Iterative Graph Queries".

September 02, 2020

CSE professors received NSF award on Big Graph Stores

Professor Rajiv Gupta, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Zhijia Zhao, Chengyu Song, Manu Sridharan received an award from the NSF in the program of Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems.

September 02, 2020

CSE professors received NSF award on simulations of fluids

Craig Schroeder and Tamar Shinar were awarded a grant from the NSF CISE Core program for simulating multiphase fluids, surface tension, and solid-fluid coupling.

September 02, 2020

CSE professors awarded NSF collaborative grant

CSE professors, Ahmed Eldawy and Vassilis Tsotras, were awarded an NSF grant of $1.2 million in collaboration with Prof. Michael Carey from UCI.

August 20, 2020

CSE professors awarded NSF Formal Methods in the Field grant

Manu Sridharan and Philip Brisk from CSE and Prof. William H. Grover from Bioengineering awarded an interdisciplinary grant from the NSF Formal Methods in the Field on programmable microfluidic chips.

July 20, 2020

CSE professors won a $10 million collaborative USDA grant

As part of a larger team at UCR and collaborating institutions, CSE professor Vagelis Papalexakis and Ahmed Eldawy won a grant from USDA on developing AI for sustainable agriculture

June 22, 2020

CSE endorses the BCOE statement "We Stand in Solidarity"

Faculty, teachers, and staff of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering wholeheartedly endorse and support the BCOE statement "We Stand in Solidarity"

June 12, 2020

CSE Prof. Manu Sridharan receives Google Faculty Research Award

Google has just announced that Prof. Manu Sridharan will receive a Faculty Research Award for 2019-2020 for his work on "Practical Pluggable Type Introduction".

February 25, 2020

CSE student's paper is chosen for IEEE Micro Top Picks 2020

The work by Prof. Hung-Wei Tseng and his students has been selected for IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the 2020 Computer Architecture Conferences.

February 24, 2020

External News

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 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.

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.

July 07, 2025

Computer science professor selected for prestigious symposium

Evangelos “Vagelis” Papalexakis, a professor and Ross Family Chair in Computer Science at UC Riverside, has been selected to participate in a prestigious national symposium hosted by the National Academy of Engineering.

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.