CSE faculty continue the legacy of receiving national and international recognition
CSE Associate Professor Rose Yu is a 2024 Innovator of AI in the new MIT Technology Review, cited for applying the rules of physics and making “AI systems more practical.”
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Fan Chung Graham was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers.
Professor Rob Knight, an international leader in the study of microbiomes, was elected this year to the National Academy of Engineering– the highest professional recognition afforded to engineers and computer scientists.
Renowned bioinformatics researcher Vineet Bafna was among the 68 scientists worldwide named this year as Association of Computing Machinery fellows for transformative contributions to computing science and technology.
Computer graphics pioneer Ravi Ramamoorthi earned a Frontiers of Science Award – his second in two years – at the 2024 International Congress of Basic Science, which recognizes groundbreaking papers published in the last 10 years.
For the third year in a row, CSE researchers Rob Knight and Pavel Pevzner were named among the world’s most influential in their fields in this year’s Clarivate listing of Most Highly Cited Researchers in the World.
Professors Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker are among the UC San Diego authors to receive the Test-of-time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) for the widely influential 2013 paper on Bitcoin crime fighting research.
Cryptographer Nadia Heninger received the prestigious IAC Test of Time Award for introducing the go-to tool for side-channel attacks on CRT-RSA that played a pivotal role in helping secure the Internet in a seminal 2009 paper.
Arun Kumar was recognized at the conference with the VLDB Early Career Research Contribution Award for his impact in the field. He also spoke on a panel discussion titled, “Data Science Challenges and Opportunities in the LLM Era,” exploring the far-reaching implications of LLMs on data science.
Associate Professor Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Professor Stefan Savage, and Assistant Professor Kristen Vaccaro are among the inaugural group of 15 academic researchers worldwide to receive Google’s Trust & Safety Research Award, recognized for their efforts to create positive societal impact with technology.
Associate Professor Rose Yu was honored with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award for research aimed at improving the ability of large language models (LLMs) to solve complex real-world tasks with unseen scenarios.
Assistant professors Earlence Fernandes and Amy Ousterhout were two of 70 early-career professors worldwide recognized for their efforts to create positive societal impact with technology.
Associate Professors Yufei Ding, Sicun Gao and Nadia Heninger are part of a 98-member cohort, representing 51 universities in 15 countries, honored with Amazon Research Awards this year.
