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.
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.
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.
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 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.”
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.”
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.
Assistant professors Aditya Thakur and Cindy Rubio Gonzalez’s proposal, “Code Embeddings for Bug Finding,” received a 2019 Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award.
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.
Yong Jae Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a $501K NSF CAREER Award titled “CAREER: Weakly-Supervised Visual Scene Understanding: Combining Images and Videos, and Going Beyond Semantic Tags”.
