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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

External News

Quantum computing conceptual image
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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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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May 13, 2026
Blind Ambition: AI agents can turn tasks into digital disasters
Computer scientists at UC Riverside have identified troubling flaws in a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) agents designed to take over routine computer chores while users are away — sorting emails, organizing files, analyzing data, and handling other everyday digital tasks that might otherwise consume hours. The researchers found that the automated agents can become dangerously fixated on completing assignments without recognizing when their actions are harmful, contradictory, or simply irrational.
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May 11, 2026
Assistant Professor receives NSF CAREER Award for AI reliability research
Dr. Qian Zhang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside, studies the software layers where those failures occur. Her work recently earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, one of the agency’s highest honors for early-career faculty.
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