CSE News
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Scholarship and Fellowships Awarded to CSE Graduate Students
Roshni Chandrashekhar is a recipient of this year's Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship and Laura Pina is one of this year's finalists. With this memorial fund, Google hopes to encourage women to excel in computing and technology and become active role models and leaders in field. Roshni will receive a financial award for the academic year and Roshni and Laura will be invited to attend an educational/social retreat at Google. Way to go Roshni and Laura!
CSE graduate students Kai Wang and Nathan Gouldin-Hhotta were awarded Intel Ph.D. Fellowships for their leading-edge work in fields related to Intel's business and research interests. Kai, advised by Serge Belongie, is part of the Computer Vision Group. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning and computer security. Nathan, advised by Steve Swanson, is part of the Computer Architecture Group and his current research focus is with dark silicon. Congratulations Kai and Nathan!
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WIC Attends CWIC-SoCal
The Celebration of Women in Computing in Southern California (CWIC-SoCal) conference was held April 14-15, 2012 in Santa Ana and UCSD was well represented with 65 attendees! UCSD's Women in Computing raised enough money along with support form the CSE department, Jeanne Ferrante and generous alumnus to send this large contingent. The CWIC-SoCal is an opportunity for women interested in computer science and information technology to network, share their experiences, learn from each other and, of course, to have fun.
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Agarwal Receives UCSD Sustainability Award
Yuvraj Agarwal was named as "Outstanding Faculty" for helping advance UCSD's sustainability goals during the campus's 2012 Sustainability Awards. The campus aims to make sustainability part of UCSD's ongoing education, research, planning, operation and outreach programs. Congratulations to Agarwal and the Synergy Lab !
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CSE Student, Ayelet Bitton, Named “All American Attorney"
UC San Diego’s mock trial team competed in the national championship this week, for the first time in UCSD's history. Out of 700 colleges only 48 make it to the national championship. Ayelet Bitton, CSE student, is the co-captain of the team. The team had a narrow loss at the national championship.
Bitton however, was one of 16 selected to receive the extremely high honor, "All American Attorney". Full story. -
Maria Klawe, Harvey-Mudd College, Part of Distinguished Lecturer Series at CSE
Maria Klawe's lecture "Gender and Computing" was held at CSE April 9, 2012. The talk explored how girls and women differ from boys and men in their uses of and attitudes towards computing technology, and how this affects career choices and technology design. See the lecture video here.
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Michael Wei Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Michael Wei was awarded the prestigious 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Michael's current research interests involve embedded systems, non-volatile systems, computer architecture, security, and energy. Presently, he is working on reliably erasing solid state disks (SSDs) at the Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory.
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UCSD Wins U.S. Department of State "Global Manhunt" Challenge
CSE Research Scientist, Manuel Cebrian, and his group, CrowdScanner, won the "Tag Challenge" by tracking down a group of "suspects" in a jewel heist on two continents in five different cities, within just 12 hours. The goal was to find five suspects. The CrowdScanners found three and their nearest competitor located one “suspect" at a much later time. See the full article: UCSD News Center
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Laura Grupp and the Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory in the news
Ph.D Student Laura Grupp, lead author of the "Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory", describes the future of scaling for enterprise-class SSDs. Based on the scaling trends, reliability requirements, and the economic constraints, the paper paints a picture of how SSD capacity will continue to increase (or not) as further pressure on flash density reduces performance and reliability. Grupp presented the paper at FAST'12 and it has gained international attention ComputerWorld, ZDNet, Slashdot and The Register to name a few.
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CSE Research Scientist to take on MyHeartMap Challenge
CSE Research Scientist, Manuel Cebrian, and an international team of crowdsourcing experts, have taken on a public competition in an effort to create an effective location-based database of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in the Philadelphia area. This information could prove to be lifesaving, plus the team members will be able to use the challenge to test their theoretical research on mobilizing social networks and verification of information. The MyHeartMap Challenge began on January 31 and continues through March 13, 2012.
See full story at Calit2 News.
To become a member of the HeartCrowd team, register at http://scailab.media.mit.edu/heartcrowd/
For more information about the Challenge, visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/myheartmap/#.TygpPaVSSEZ
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Five UCSD papers accepted at premier cryptology conference
The 31st Eurocrypt conference (Cambridge in 2012) has accepted 41 papers, and of these papers, 5 have CSE authors including one of the top paper submissions. Congratulations Mihir Bellare, Rafael Dowsley, Daniele Micciancio (one of the top three papers), Stefano Tessaro, Sarah Meiklejohn, and recent alumnus Scott Yilek!
