Computer Science and Engineering

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

RoseHack (a women centric hackathon) held last month at UCR

The Women in Computing (WinC) and Society of Women Engineerings (SWE) held RoseHack, a 24-hour hackathon, on Jan. 18th - 19th, at UCR.

February 13, 2020

CSE Prof. Mohsen Lesani receives NSF CAREER award

Professor Lesani received the NSF CAREER award for his work on "Distributed System Synthesis on Certified Middleware".

February 07, 2020

CSE Prof. Jiasi Chen receives NSF CAREER award

Professor Chen received the NSF CAREER award https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1942700 for her work on "Networked Multi-User Augmented Reality for Mobile Devices".

February 03, 2020

External News

May 16, 2025

Seed of Inspiration

Computer Science and Engineering associate professor Amey Bhangale imparts cutting-edge knowledge to his students to be a “seed of inspiration” to pursue research.

May 15, 2025

Guarding the Grapevine

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.

May 06, 2025

Ready to Launch

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.

April 14, 2025

Professor recognized by IEEE for pioneering work with microchips

Sheldon Tan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering, has been recognized as a fellow of the IEEE engineering professional group for his contributions to the advancement of microchips.

February 21, 2025

Beehive sensors offer hope in saving honeybee colonies

A UC Riverside computer science team has developed a sensor-based technology that could revolutionize commercial beekeeping by reducing colony losses and lowering labor costs.

December 09, 2024

AI’s deadly air pollution toll

Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electricity to the fast-growing number of computer processing centers. This air pollution, a new UCR and Caltech study estimates, is expected to result in as many as 1,300 premature deaths a year by 2030 in the United States and bring health costs to nearly $20 billion a year.

November 06, 2024

NSF grants $2 million for low-income computing students

UCR’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) has been awarded a $2 million grant over six years from the National Science Foundation to expand educational opportunities for scholarships for low-income students.