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Cindy Rubio-González Receives DOE Early Career Award

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
August 06, 2019

Faculty

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

Raissa D’Souza Appointed Lead Editor of Physical Review Research

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
July 01, 2019

Faculty

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.

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

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
June 21, 2019

Students

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.

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

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
June 18, 2019

Faculty

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.

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

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
June 12, 2019

Research

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.

CS Alumni Win Sacramento Kings Capitalize Startup Competition

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
May 31, 2019

Alumni

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.

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

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
May 28, 2019

Alumni

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.”

Biswanath Mukherjee to Deliver UC Davis Annual Faculty Lecture

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
May 23, 2019

Faculty

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.”

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

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
May 21, 2019

Research

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.

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

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
May 20, 2019

Research

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

Computer Scientists Create Programmable Self-Assembling DNA

March 20, 2019

Research

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.

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David Doty wins NSF Career Award

February 26, 2019

Faculty

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”.

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

January 02, 2019

Research

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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Professor Prem Devanbu Named 2018 ACM Fellow

by Noah Pflueger-Peters
December 06, 2018

Faculty

Professor Premkumar Devanbu was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is one of 56 fellows being recognized for “outstanding accomplishments in computing and information and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community” this December.

Devanbu was specifically recognized for his contributions to using software data and meta-data to improve software tools and processes. He will formally receive his award at ACM’s annual Awards Banquet on June 15, 2019.

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UC Davis Wins Amazon’s 2018 Alexa Artificial Intelligence Challenge

November 27, 2018

Students

UC Davis Team Gunrock won the global 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize for creating the best conversational chatbot and advancing modern artificial intelligence. The announcement of this $500,000 prize was made yesterday at the annual Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.

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