DECAL Group Paper Receives ESEC/FEC 2019 Test-of-Time Award

A 2009 paper led by alumnus Christian Bird ’10 and professors Premkumar Devanbu and Vladimir Filkov received a test-of-time award for its long-lasting impact on the field of software engineering from the Association for Computing Machinery’s 27th Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FEC 2019).

Alumni

Andy Wu: Redefining Possibilities and Bettering Society with Technological Innovations

Andy (Che-An) Wu is a second-year computer science major whose career goal is to become a tech-entrepreneur and make a huge difference in this world.

Students

Cindy Rubio-González Receives DOE Early Career Award

Assistant Professor Cindy Rubio-González has received an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

Faculty

Raissa D’Souza Appointed Lead Editor of Physical Review Research

Computer Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professor Raissa D’Souza has been named lead editor of the American Physical Society’s new open access journal, Physical Review Research.

Faculty

Márton Pósfai Wins 2019 UC Davis Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research

The award, given to 2-3 postdoctoral scholars every year, recognizes the vital role postdoctoral research plays at UC Davis and honors recipients for outstanding research accomplishments in their field.

Students

Raissa D’Souza Receives Two Honors from the Network Science Society

Professor Raissa D’Souza was honored twice by the Network Science Society, being named a Fellow of the society and receiving the inaugural Euler Award for an outstanding research contribution that changed paradigms or assumptions in the field.

Faculty

CS Team Selected for Oral Presentation at the 2019 IEEE CVPR Conference

The paper, authored by Ph.D. student Krishna Kumar Singh, visiting researcher Utkarsh Ojha and assistant professor Yong Jae Lee, describes an algorithm the team developed that was able to identify, disentangle and layer different parts of generated images by associating random codes with different parts of the image.

Research

CS Alumni Win Sacramento Kings Capitalize Startup Competition

Smart parking startup Japa, co-founded by Department of Computer Science alumni Mat Magno ’18 and Charles Chen ‘18, is the winner of the 4th annual Kings Capitalize Startup Competition.

Alumni

UC Davis Alumni, Professor Prem Devanbu Win MSR 19’s 10-Year Most Influential Paper award

UC Davis alumni Chris Bird ‘10, Earl Barr ‘09 and David Hamilton ‘10 and CS professor Premkumar Devanbu received the 2019 10-Year Most Influential Paper award from the Mining Software Repositories Conference for their 2009 paper, “The Promises and Perils of Mining Git.”

Alumni

Biswanath Mukherjee to Deliver UC Davis Annual Faculty Lecture

The Annual Faculty Lecture is a tradition that began in 1942, where the winner of the UC Davis Faculty Distinguished Research award speaks to the campus. Mukherjee, this year’s recipient, will deliver a lecture on computer networking called, “Rising Power of the Network User.”

Faculty

Computer Science, Science and Technology Studies Team Up to Win Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge

A team of faculty members from the Departments of Computer Science (CS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS) was named an inaugural winner of the Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge.

Research

Aditya Thakur and Cindy Rubio Gonzalez Receive 2019 Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award

Assistant professors Aditya Thakur and Cindy Rubio Gonzalez’s proposal, “Code Embeddings for Bug Finding,” received a 2019 Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award.

Research

Computer Scientists Create Programmable Self-Assembling DNA

Computer scientists at the University of California, Davis, and the California Institute of Technology have created DNA molecules that can self-assemble into patterns essentially by running their own program. The work is published March 21 in the journal Nature.

Research

David Doty wins NSF Career Award

David Doty, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a $500K NSF CAREER Award titled “CAREER: Error-Free, Uniform and Composable Chemical Computation”.

Faculty

Mohammad Sadoghi and Ph.D. student Thamir Qadah win Best Paper Award

CS assistant professor Mohammad Sadoghi and Ph.D. student Thamir Qadah at Purdue University win Best Paper Award at ACM/USENIX/IFIP Middleware Conference 2018 for their paper titled QueCC: A Queue-oriented, Control-free Concurrency Architecture.

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Research