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