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.
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.
Professor Amr Magdy has been awarded a new multi-institution NSF grant to explore new educational developments for geography curriculum incorporating geospatial technology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Faculty, teachers, and staff of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering wholeheartedly endorse and support the BCOE statement "We Stand in Solidarity"
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".
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.
External News
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.
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.
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.
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.
Computer Science and Engineering associate professor Amey Bhangale imparts cutting-edge knowledge to his students to be a “seed of inspiration” to pursue research.
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.
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.