19-20 New Faculty – CSE Annual Report

NEW FACULTY

CSE WELCOMES NEW FACULTY

Four new members join the distinguished community of UC San Diego CSE faculty.

Carlos Jensen
Associate Professor and UC San Diego Associate Vice Chancellor, Educational Innovation
Previously Associate Dean,
Oregon State University

Jensen’s research lies at the intersection between usability and software engineering, with an emphasis on studying how Open Source communities operate and organize, and the tools and processes needed to make them more efficient. His recent work uses automated testing techniques to help developers improve the reliability of large and complex open source software.

Tzu-Mao Li
Assistant Professor
Previously Postdoctoral Researcher,
UC Berkeley and MIT

Li connects classical computer graphics and image processing algorithms with modern data-driven methods to facilitate physical exploration. His work added 3D understanding to computer vision models; used data to improve camera imaging pipeline quality; and made light transport simulation faster by using information implicitly defined by rendering programs.

Rose Yu
Assistant Professor
Previously Assistant Professor,
Northeastern University

The goal of Yu’s research is to advance machine learning and enable interpretable, efficient and robust large-scale spatiotemporal reasoning. Her work has been successfully applied to solve challenging domain problems in sustainability, health and physical sciences.

Kristen Vaccaro
Assistant Professor
Previously Research Assistant,
U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Vaccaro focuses on how to design machine learning systems to give users a sense of agency and control. She found that some existing ways of providing control for social media can function as placebos, increasing user satisfaction even when they do not work. She will help develop systems to give users control and oversight, and ethical guidelines and policies.

I am pleased to welcome these new faculty members who will join the ranks of acclaimed CSE faculty dedicated to impactful research, serving our students and improving society. They will also help further our important mission to foster a diverse and inclusive community.”

- Sorin Lerner, CSE Department Chair