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18 New Endowed Chairs Created at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
August 6, 2024
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has created 18 new endowed chairs, empowering a world-class cohort of faculty to explore new and innovative research directions. These endowed chairs have been made possible through the generous and visionary philanthropy of Irwin and Joan Jacobs. Full Story
Advanced AI-Based Techniques Scale-up Solving Complex Combinatorial Optimization Problems
June 10, 2024
A framework based on advanced AI techniques can solve complex, computationally intensive problems faster and in a more more scalable way than state-of-the-art methods, according to a study led by engineers at the University of California San Diego. Full Story
Computer Scientists Find New Cybersecurity Attacks on Hardware and Software
April 26, 2024
Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors currently in use. Full Story
UC San Diego Among Multidisciplinary Awards Providing $221M Nationally for Cutting-Edge Projects
April 16, 2024
Three Jacobs School faculty are part of projects funded by the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative awards program this year. They are Kamalika Chaudhuri in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Jorge Cortes and Boris Kramer in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Full Story
The AI Revolution is Upon Us--And UC San Diego Researchers Are Using it to Inform Climate Action
May 2, 2023
Researchers across a range of fields are working together to develop and implement AI-assisted tools and machine learning methods that will enable scientific discoveries at an unprecedented pace. And when it comes to global challenges like climate change, time is of the essence. Full Story
Fixing the Chicken-and-Egg Conundrum of Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations
April 7, 2023
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering launched a new effort to help seed research collaborations between labs. The program is called the Jacobs School Early Career Faculty Development Award. It provides funding that pays for graduate students from two different labs to begin the collaborations. Full Story
UC San Diego Computer Security and Privacy Pioneer Named ACM Fellow
January 23, 2023
Farinaz Koushanfar, a professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego, has been named one of 57 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2022. Koushanfar is recognized for her contributions to secure computing and privacy-preserving machine learning. Full Story
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