UCSD CSE Department

Congrats to Nadia Polikarpova, who has been honored with Intel's Rising Star Faculty Award for her work on program synthesis. https://t.co/puyWKZ7Vju

CSE alum Joseph Jaeger (PhD, '19) captures CRYPTO 2020 award. https://cse.ucsd.edu//alum-joseph-jaeger-phd-19-captures-c

Angelique Taylor, a Ph.D. in the research group of Prof. Laurel Riek in the UCSD CSE Department, will give a talk for #AdaLovelaceDay at 6 p.m. PT Oct. 13: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ada-lovelace-day-2020-celebrat Register and tune in!

A new study from Pavel Pevzner and Yana Safonova sheds new light on how ultralong antibodies form, solving a 30-year-old mystery. https://cse.ucsd.edu//cse-research-leads-new-understanding

We are grateful to Oriol Vinyals (CSE ’09) and Deep Mind for the generous gift supporting artificial intelligence research and enhanced diversity.

Coming in October, CSE's Diversity Equity and Inclusion group is hosting weekly drop-in sessions for undergrads. Vent about COVID, learn about student life and more. Mondays at 4:30 pm ucsd.zoom.us/j/95510959744

Laurel Riek and colleagues are developing telepresence robots. Equipped with an arm, these instruments will help children interact with the outside world through touch.

A new Nature Methods paper co-authored by Nuno Bandeira describes MassIVE.quant: a resource and repository for quantitative mass spec proteomics. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-020-0955-0

Our alumna Sarah Guthals cowrote the code and curriculum for Microsoft's new course: Introduction to #Python for #Space Exploration: https://docs.microsoft.com//modu/introduction-python-nasa/ Check it out! #WomeninSTEM #NASA UCSD CSE Department UC San Diego Alumni

Congratulations to assistant professor Jingbo Shang, who is runner-up for the ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award for: Constructing and Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks From Massive Text. For more on the project, check out this short video by Shang: https://www.dropbox.com//kdd-dissertation-award-recording.

New fall quarter updates. https://t.co/U3dDqOaKsv

Tajana Rosing and Niema Moshiri have been awarded a National Science Foundation RAPID grant to develop new software and hardware tools to scale up COVID-19 genome analyses. https://cse.ucsd.edu//cse-researchers-receive-nsf-grant-ac