UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences
2018–2026
1,348 posts
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October 2026
- NSF BRIDGE Holds Conference on Cyberinfrastructure for Collaborative Data Science and AI
- Michael Shindler Honored at 2026 Celebration of Teaching
- Alex Berg Wins Koenderink Prize
- 8th Annual Industry Showcase Illuminates Career Opportunities
- Conference Works to Improve Computer Science Transfer Pathways
- Pierre Baldi to Receive 2027 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award
- Franz and Taylor Elected to Inaugural Class of ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy
September 2026
- Alumni Spotlight: Kenneth Rhee ’20
- UC Irvine Researchers Develop Open-source, 3D-printed Robotic Hand with Human-like Dexterity
- Roy Fox Receives NSF CAREER Award
- Raising Kids in a Digital World with Less Fear, More Strategy
August 2026
- New Data Infrastructure Award Helps Scientific Communities Build Domain-specific Platforms for Collaborative Data Science and AI
- ICS Summer Academy Continues to Expand with New Courses on Intelligent Robotics and Game Design
- In Memoriam: Julian Feldman, Founding Faculty Member of UC Irvine ICS
July 2026
- Sharad Mehrotra Receives IEEE TCDE Impact and IFIP WG 11.3 Awards
- Marios Papaefthymiou Reappointed as Dean of ICS
June 2026
- Sven Koenig Receives ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
- Habiba Farrukh Earns NSF CAREER Award
- Staff Profile: Hans Wunsch on 30 Years at ICS
- Commencement 2026 Celebrates Community and Courage to Face the Unknown
- Senior Spotlight: Harsh Rathore’s Secret Identity – Peter the Anteater
- 2026 UC Irvine ICS Project Expo Breaks Records
- UC Irvine Provides the Right Recipe for Success – Lucas (Kaixiang) Zhuang
- Senior Spotlight: Arnav Nigam’s ICS Journey From Outsider to Insider
- Senior Spotlight: Lizbeth Ramírez Creates Healthy Communities by Using Data for Good
May 2026
- Five ICS Students Receive OC ACM Awards
- Inaugural UC Irvine Research Forum Series Focuses on Developer Experience
- Students Showcase Innovation at 2026 Beall Butterworth Competition
- Six Alumni Inducted into 2026 Hall of Fame
- Six ICS Students Compete in Capstone Competitions with Games Developed to Help Children Sleep
- Senior Spotlight: Chidera Okoroama Creates Resilience and Community Out of Challenges
- Sergio Gago-Masague and Nalini Venkatasubramanian Awarded $537,000 NSF REU Site Grant for AIoT-Sys
- Student Profile: Bruna Oewel Fashions Future Mental Health Technology
- Student Teams Win 2026 Information Technology Competition
- Katie Salen Tekinbaş Awarded Public Voices Fellowship
April 2026
- An Award-Winning Educational Tool for Diagnosing Hypertension
- Volodymyr Minin Elected Fellow of American Statistical Association
- Three Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- Event Prediction Research Wins AI and Statistics (AISTATS) Conference Honor
- Alumni Spotlight: David Hilbert – Philosophical Computer Scientist
- In Memoriam: Milena Mihail
- Rei Shindo Wins First Place at CCSC for App to Help Transfer Students
- Victoria Marie Soroten Awarded SMART Scholarship
- Paul Dourish Elected Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow
March 2026
- From Project Expo to CTO: Alumnus Christopher Tapia Kicked His Career Into High Gear
- ICS Alumna Eunkyung Jo Honored by ACM SIGCHI
- In Memoriam: David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet’
February 2026
- UC Irvine Researchers Expose Critical Security Vulnerability in Autonomous Drones
- Thomas Zimmermann Recognized with Two SIGSOFT Awards
- Anteater Love Story: Change of Major, Change of Heart
- Q&A with WICS Co-Presidents Mae King and Mikayla McGrath
- Inaugural AI in Science Symposium Features Global Thought Leaders
January 2026
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December 2025
- Gene Tsudik Receives 2025 Humboldt Research Award
- National Academy of Inventors Names Marios Papaefthymiou as Fellow
- How Art Is Driving Waymo’s Feel-Good Branding
- MedTech Innovation Hackathon 2025 Creates Collaboration and Innovation
- Students Find Support and Inspiration at Fall Conferences
November 2025
- New Report Shows How Community Arts Programs Shape Young Lives for the Long Term
- From Harassment to Healing
- Vijay Vazirani to Be Honored with 2025 FOCS Test of Time Award
- After Service, New Purpose: UC’s Student Veterans Find Their Next Mission: Amanda Lassiter
- Ioannis Panageas Receives $400K Grant from Algorithmic Foundations for Multi-agent Learning
- Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi Receives NSF CAREER Award
- Padhraic Smyth Receives $900K NSF Grant for Improving Human-AI Decision-Making
October 2025
- Seventh Annual ICS Industry Showcase Forges Career Connections
- Sohyeon Park Receives 2025 Google PhD Fellowship
- UC Irvine Data Science Students Partner with CHOC Research, Now Part of Rady Children’s Health, to Develop Personalized Pediatric Dehydration Management Solutions
September 2025
- National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Champions Tour DC
- Blending Psychiatry and Computer Science to Improve Mental Health
- Aaron Trammell Named Higher Education Video Game Association Fellow
- ICS Summer Academy 2025 Inspires Bright Young Minds
August 2025
- ICS Celebrates and Mourns Two of Its Staunchest Champions
- This Extremely Cute Bean Wants to Help You Stop Doomscrolling
- Fifth Annual UC Irvine ICS Project Expo Continues to Grow ‘Bigger and Better’
July 2025
- Second Annual Accessing STEM in Higher Education Event Helps Prepare Blind and Low Vision Students for College STEM
- UC Irvine Probe into State Data Brokers Raises Legal and Privacy Concerns
- Associate Professor of Informatics Recognized with NSF CAREER Award
- Inaugural Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair Padhraic Smyth Speaks on AI Past, Present and Future
- Little Videos Are Cooking Our Brains
June 2025
- 2024-2025 Digital Accessibility Fellows Champion Access and Inclusion at UC Irvine
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Liz Ankrah Wires Research Across Borders
- An AI That’s a Better Friend—And Maybe a Lifeline for Humanity
May 2025
- Inaugural Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence
- Codazen Provides AI-Driven Color-Generation Design Platform for UC Irvine Capstone Project
- Engineering and Information and Computer Sciences Schools Induct Six Alumni into 2025 Hall of Fame
- UC Irvine team wins National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
- Senior Spotlight: Ella Chung Makes the Leap from Cells to Bytes
- 2025 Aspirations in Computing Event Honors Local Student Innovation and Success
- Perseverance and Community Are Keys to Success For Punit Shah
- Educating Through Innovation: ID TECH’s Capstone Journey with Students at UCI
- ICS Professor Among Three UC Irvine Researchers Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April 2025
- Driven by Impact: Ken Anderson Views Academia as a Path to Service
- Senior Spotlight: Anthony Cusimano Parses a Path Through Data
- Adolescents want privacy, not just accuracy, from health AI tools
- Senior Spotlight: Tim Kashani Levels Up in GDIM Program
- Music as medicine
- A Smartwatch App for Monitoring Intoxication
- How ‘cozy gaming’ is taking mindfulness mainstream
- Tech Entrepreneur TJ Thinakaran Prioritizes Principles & People
March 2025
- Two ICS Professors Among Five UC Irvine Researchers Named AAAS Fellows
- Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Marks Milestones for the Connected Learning Lab
- Nalini Venkatasubramanian Named an IEEE Fellow
- Fulbright Visiting Scholars: Fostering Global Research Collaborations
- Debra Richardson Defies Gender Stereotypes and Diversifies Computing
- Donation from SAP Establishes New UC Irvine Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence
- Ky-Vinh Mai: Beyond the Data
- A Guide to Navigating AI as a Family
- Uplifting Women in Tech
- UC Irvine Study Shines Headlights on Consumer Driverless Vehicle Safety Deficiencies
February 2025
- Preventing Bad Experiences with Digital Goods
- Paul Dourish Receives SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
- Workshop Brings Together SoCal Leaders in Causal Reasoning
- Mohan Yang Receives CRA Honorable Mention for Outstanding Undergraduate Research
- Advancing Innovative Solutions in Pediatric Health
- André and Markelle Rösti: Match Made in… ICS!
- 11 Teams Recognized at IrvineHacks 2025
- A New Framework for Improved Video Streaming
- reCAPTCHA: 819 Million Hours of Wasted Human Time and Billions of Dollars in Google Profits
- Improvisational Jazz and How It Can Ease Pain
- Black History Month: Pioneers in Science and Technology
- AI for Personalized Brand Engagement
- Sound Ethics and UC Irvine Partner to Shape the Future of Ethical AI in the Music Industry
- Andy Gu Explores Cybersecurity in Healthcare at Secure the Future Competition
January 2025
- Black in Tech: Building Community in ICS
- Kylie Peppler Explores Educational Uses of Generative AI as FATE Fellow
- UC Irvine’s Codesafe Platform Wins $50,000 in Global EdTech Competition
- Novel Approach to AI Improves Sustainability and Data Protection
- Generative AI for Cell Biology: Stephan Mandt joins CZI Residency Program
- UC Irvine Study Finds Mismatch between Human Perception and Reliability of AI-Assisted Language Tools
- Grand Opening of the Outreach, Access & Inclusion Student Hub
- Anteaters Celebrate at December Commencement
- 14 Simple Changes for Healthier Tech Habits in 2025
- ICS Researchers Win Best Paper Award for Survivable System Design
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December 2024
- Stacy Branham Helps Lead $5.6M Project to Expand AccessComputing
- Live, Laugh, Zot App Takes First Place at WebJam 2024
- New Course Stems from Back-to-Back Appearances at ICPC World Finals
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Peyton Politewicz Empowers Communities with Data
- Code for Care: MedTech Innovation Hackathon
- On His Game
November 2024
- Early Assurance for Early Arrivals
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Celebrating International Education Week with Maryam Hassani
- ICS Industry Showcase Drives Innovation
- Lidia Flores Awarded 2024 Google Fellowship
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Minal Walvekar Blends Math and Pharmacy in MDS Program
- ICS Honors Our Veterans
- QT STEM: Promoting LGBTQ+ Visibility & Acceptance in STEM
- UCI Celebration of Teaching: ICS Honorees
- Kevin Thompson’s Fascination with AI Leads to Innovative Tech Exec Career
October 2024
- ICS Students Represent UCI at 2024 Tapia and GHC Conferences
- AI Is Checking Notes and Raising Standards in Paediatric Care
- $2.5M NIH Grant Supports AI and Data Science in Diabetes Research
- Kai Zheng Leads Data Management in Vaccines for Pandemic Preparedness Center
- ICS Tutoring Hub: A One-Stop Shop for Academic Support
- ICS Welcomes Six New Faculty
- Register Now for the “League of Robot Runners” Competition
- Generating the Future with AI
- Why the Nobel Prize in Physics Went to AI Research
- Jonathan H. Chen Honored at Lauds and Laurels Awards Ceremony
- The ‘Stable Marriage Problem’ Solution Underpins Dating Apps and School Admissions
- ICS Summer Academy 2024: Continued Growth and Success
- Pioneering Causal AI for Precision Medicine and Beyond
- Health Informatics Ph.D. Student Lidia Flores: A Rising Latina in Tech
- A Warm ICS Welcome
- Learning Tools – AI and the Future of Writing Instruction
September 2024
- StoryAI App Engages Students in Learning
- How Much Will AI Help in the Next Pandemic?
- Virtual “Disaster Cities” to Provide Real-Life Resilience
- Human Factor Tops for Cyber Dangers: UCI Dean
- Accessibility Advocate
- Building a Novel AI System for Personalized Sustainability Education
- UCI Team Collaborates on $15M Grant to Secure Cyber-Physical Systems
August 2024
- A Time to Reconnect & Network: Information Systems Group Reunion
- In Memoriam: Fred Tonge, Professor Emeritus and Founding Member of ICS
- Data Science Students Win American Statistical Association Award
- Faculty and Staff Honored at 2024 ICS Awards Celebration
- How AI is impacting the medical imaging field (Spectrum News 1)
- Attacks on Bytecode Interpreters Conceal Malicious Injection Activity (Dark Reading)
- Smart Health Research to Reduce Cancer Risks
- $1.4 million awarded for Alzheimer’s disease research training (UCI News)
July 2024
- ICS Students Win 2024 Gen AI Hackathon
- Pierre Baldi Receives 2023 INNS Dennis Gabor Award
- Alumni Spotlight: Douglas Schmidt’s Unique Career Path to Protecting the U.S.
- Accessing STEM in Higher Education
- ICS Commencement 2024: Tomorrow’s Tech Leaders
- Roderic Crooks’ Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality
- OC High Schoolers Reach for the Cloud(s)
- Cyber@UCI team places fourth in national cybersecurity competition (UCI News)
- VenusHacks 2024
June 2024
- ICS Project Expo-nential Growth
- Commentary: California’s public universities come through – at least for one family (EdSource)
- Pride Month 2024: Supporting LGBTQ+ in Tech
- Best Master’s in Data Science for 2024 (Fortune)
- A Generation of AI Guinea Pigs (The Atlantic)
- Students “Up their Game” for 2024 Beall Butterworth Competition
- Tracing the Network Traffic Fingerprinting Techniques of OpenVPN (Comms ACM)
- ZotGPT to Help in Design of Nicotine Cessation Bot
- From Legal Codes to Coding: Computer Scientists Tackle Data Privacy Law (UC Davis News)
- Senior Spotlight: Alfonso Vieyra’s Transition from Boxing to Programming
- Six Accomplished Alumni Inducted into Hall of Fame
- #IamUCI – Sam Hansen
- Curious Mind, Compassionate Heart
- Daniel Gillen Recognized for Statistical Methods Research and Impact on Public Health
May 2024
- Senior Spotlight: Shengyuan Lu Overcomes Visa Limits to Reach New Heights
- Marco Levorato Wins Emerging Innovator of Year Award
- Machine Learning and Statistics Collaboration Leads to Outstanding Student Paper at AIStats
- Senior Spotlight: Maya Lee’s Journey From Anteater to Googler
- Embedded Security Team Ranked 11th in the World at eCTF
- Gillian Hayes Inducted into SIGCHI Academy
- UCI Programming Team Heads to North America Championship
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Vitica Arnold’s Background in Psychology Informs Tech Design
- Darya Chudova Blends Fields to Advance Disease Diagnosis
- Atlantis 2024 Datathon Dives Deep into Data Challenges
April 2024
- Aspirations in Computing Honors Next-Generation Innovators
- Emulating Neurodegeneration and Aging in Artificial Intelligence Systems (Tech Xplore)
- Bernal Prize 2024: Geoffrey C. Bowker (Society for Social Studies of Science)
- Senior Spotlight: Introducing Indie Game Developer Sam Hansen
- Daniel Gillen Named AAAS Fellow (UCI News)
- UCI Advances to National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
- Retaining CS Majors: Predictive Modeling and Targeted Academic Interventions
- Grad Student & Basketball Guard Moulayna Johnson Sidi Baba on UC Irvine’s Historic Season
- Wang Feng and Gene Tsudik are named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows (UCI News)
- An AI app claims it can detect sexually transmitted infections. Doctors say it’s a disaster (LA Times)
- Integrating Accessibility into Data Science Curricula
- #SchoolsNotPrisons: Attend the Informatics Seminar on Participatory Action Research
March 2024
- A Multitasker’s Guide to Regaining Focus (The New York Times)
- Haley Marts Highlights the Benefits of Experiential Learning
- Statistics Ph.D. Students Win Distinguished Paper Awards
- ICS Researchers Awarded Best Technical Poster at NDSS
- Defeating Deepfakes at the Source
- Guiding Light (Hana Hou!)
- The ICS Tutoring Center Is Here to Help!
- Qi Xu Receives Inaugural Statistics Fellowship Award for Methodology Research
February 2024
- Autonomous vehicle technology vulnerable to road object spoofing and vanishing attacks (UCI News)
- Gene Tsudik, Karim Eldefrawy and Collaborators Win the NDSS 2024 Test-of-Time Award
- Solar storms not set to ‘plunge Earth into consecutive days of darkness’ in 2024: experts (AFP)
- Rebecca Agyapong Embraces Community in Exploring Opportunities in Tech
- UC Irvine researcher authors ‘scientists’ warning’ on climate and technology (UCI News)
- 13 Teams Recognized at IrvineHacks 2024
- ICS Summer Academy 2024: Now Accepting Applications!
- ICS Students Win First Place at UCI ANTrepreneur Center AI Innovation Challenge
- Celebrating Black History Month
- Best Master’s in Data Science Programs for 2024: UCI Ranks #6
- AI chatbots can be tricked into misbehaving. Can scientists stop it? (Science News)
January 2024
- ICS Researchers Win SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
- Four Ways To Empower Businesses Through AI (Forbes)
- UCI Repository of Surgery Data Aims to Advance AI in Healthcare
- Mehrotra Named ACM Fellow
- High school esports is growing—and it’s changing who can be an athlete (Daily Dot)
- New database to aid development of algorithms, predictive tools to improve surgical outcomes (Medical Xpress)
- Should we let AI take our jobs … if it generates less carbon? (Anthropocene)
- Steve Acterman: Enjoying Every Aspect of Giving Back to UCI
- Tired? Distracted? Burned Out? Listen to This (The New York Times)
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December 2023
- Cross-country connection (UCI News)
- Splitting a large AI across several devices lets you run it in private (New Scientist)
- Cozy Video Games Have Nowhere to Go But Up (Inverse)
- Machine learning climate simulation dataset paper wins award at prominent AI conference (UCI News)
- 5 Ways AI Assistive Technology Tools Can Help Students (Tech & Learning)
- UCI ANTrepreneur Center Announces Collaboration with the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences
- Walmart tech vet, AI2 research scientists are behind new Seattle startup Spiffy (GeekWire)
- How to Keep Time: Look Busy (The Atlantic)
- Building Diversity and IoT Expertise into Next-Gen Tech Leaders
- Padhraic Smyth Named IEEE Fellow
- Mohsen Imani Honored with 2024 Young Investigator Award
- UC Irvine continuing education program aims to transform the public health system (UCI News)
- GE-Z, ZotTrees and FishGPT Cinch Top 3 at WebJam 2023
- How UCI and AI go waaay back (UCI News)
November 2023
- Gene Tsudik Receives ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award
- Meet the 2023-2024 ICS Peer Academic Advisors
- Autonomous electric shuttle maker Ohmio moving HQ to Riverside (OC Register)
- The kids are alright: why young people are protesting in virtual worlds (Dazed)
- Making Connections: Transformative Pathways to STEM
- Becoming a Software Engineer: A Practical Guide
- ZotHacks 2023 Highlights UCI’s Beginner Hackers
- From Classroom to Conference: Innopiphany’s Push in Innovation with MDS Program
- Creating Accessible Collaborative Work with $2M NSF Award
- Jumar Balacy’s Journey from U.S. Navy to UX Designer
- ICS Students Attend 2023 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
- ICS Industry Showcase: Recruitment & Research Tailored to Tech
- Meeting the Demand for Cloud Security
- Deep-breathing Our Way Around the Cybersphere (KUCI)
October 2023
- Hope & Skepticism: Using Generative AI for Scholarly Work
- Rina Dechter, with Others, Receives a $5M NSF Grant to Improve AI-Based Causal Decision Making
- The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed the way we use language (BBC)
- Ruslan Manoharan: Cracking the Code of Community at UCI
- Are attention spans getting shorter (and does it matter)? (CBS News)
- Advancing StoryAI: The VITAL Prize Challenge
- Eunkyung Jo Awarded 2023 Google Fellowship
- UC Irvine students take data-driven approach for next-gen health care (Spectrum News)
- ICS Welcomes Largest Incoming Class
- In the News: UCI Seeks National Benchmark for Children Learning AI (OCBJ)
- Stephanie Saldana: Inspiring Diversity in STEM
September 2023
- In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Richard Lathrop
- ICS Faculty Honored at 2023 UCI Celebration of Teaching
- David Eppstein Wins Best Paper Award for ‘On the Biplanarity of Blowups’
- UCI Summer Institute Trains Undergraduates in Biostatistics and Data Science
- In the News: How much energy does AI use compared to humans? (Venture Beat)
- Improving Software Developer Mental Well-Being and Productivity
- UCI in Top 10 for Game & Simulation Development and for Software Engineering; Top 30 for Computer Science
- Mohsen Imani Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
- New Findings on CAPTCHAs Attract Worldwide Attention
- ICS Summer Academy 2023: An ‘Incredible’ College Experience for High School Students
- Daniel Epstein Earns Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to Explore Self-Tracking Engagement
- UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement: “Ask the Experts: Artificial Intelligence and Education”
- Signal Tribune: “‘The future of public health’: CSULB and UCI reach minority students with informatics program”
August 2023
- NPR: “Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars”
- Alumni Spotlight: From Cancer to Climate Change, Peter Sadowski Applies Machine Learning to Address Real-World Problems
- Alumni couple Paul and Jo Butterworth to receive UC Irvine’s Extraordinarius award
- Mandt Appointed Program Chair for AISTATS 2024
- A Productive Partnership: Entrepreneur Craig Caryl and the ICS Capstone Program
- ‘Recrafting Soft Technologies’ Course Offers Tangible Lessons in Computer Science
- New Scientist: “Bots are better at beating ‘are you a robot?’ tests than humans are”
- High School Students Perform Real-World Analytics During Data Science for All Program
- TIME Magazine: “Why Everyone’s Worried About Their Attention Span—and How to Improve Yours”
- Ph.D. Candidate William Dunkel Heads to Seoul as Fulbright Fellow
July 2023
- Summer School for STEM Faculty: A Boot Camp in Bayesian Thinking
- Tsudik Delivers Keynote at ICCCN 2023
- UCI News: “UCI Researchers Receive $600,000 Grant From the Cyrus Tang Foundation”
- ICS Researchers Receive Best Paper Award at Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium
- Yes, People Who Are Blind Can Be Software Engineers
- Heal: “More self-managed abortion internet searches in states with restrictions vs. without”
- Sang-Woo Jun’s Work Selected for ISCA’s 25-Year Retrospective
June 2023
- Third Annual ICS Project Expo: Supporting the Tech Talent Pipeline
- Beall Butterworth Competition Results Announced
- The Washington Post: “Is the ‘internet apocalypse’ nigh? Breaking down the solar-storm science.”
- New Book – Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children
- 2023 ICS Commencement: Centering Humanity
- UC Irvine to Compete at World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest
- Cheng Zhang Receives Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
- IGDA: “Hireability Gaps and Frictions Between University Game Programs and Industry Hires [2023]”
- Breaking Barriers: VenusHacks 2023 Empowers Women in Computing
- 2023 Southern California Software Engineering Symposium Unites Industry and Academia
- Faculty and Staff Honored at 2023 ICS Awards Celebration
- Stanislaw Jarecki Named Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
- ACM Games Research & Practice: “Games as Social Platforms”
- Muhammad Twaha Ibrahim Awarded Link Foundation Fellowship
- UCI News: “Bringing emotional intelligence to artificial intelligence”
- QT STEM: A Safe Space for LGBTQ+ Students in STEM at UCI
- Popular Science: “What happens if AI grows smarter than humans? The answer worries scientists.”
- Celebrating Dr. Jazette Johnson and Dr. Lucretia Williams: An Important First in Informatics
- SoCal Data Science Program to Expand Its Reach With $1.3M Grant
- KUCI, Ask A Leader Podcast: “Bandwidth: Guard it Like Your Life Depends on it”
- Fritz Onion, M.S. ’93: An Inspiration for Giving Back
- On the Road to Internet Adoption, a Cryptographic Protocol Helps Secure 2 Billion WhatsApp Users
- Senior Spotlight: Jumanah Almajnouni Ready to Hit the Ground Running as a Software Engineer
- Connected Wellbeing Initiative to Build Understanding and Action Regarding Teens’ Technology Use and Their Mental Health
- AIStory: Leveraging Generative AI for Culturally Responsive Learning
May 2023
- Forbes: “TikTok Creators’ Financial Info, Social Security Numbers Have Been Stored In China”
- Alumni Spotlight: Nenad Medvidović’s Serendipitous Journey to Success in Academia
- UCI News: “#IamUCI – Jazette Johnson”
- CMU News: “CMU Researcher Uses ChatGPT To Execute Computer Tasks”
- ICS and Engineering Schools Induct Six into 2023 Hall of Fame
- Ph.D. Student Alagappan Ramanathan Named Internet Society Pulse Research Fellow
- ACM Honors Ramesh Jain with Distinguished Service Award
- Ph.D. Student Christina Magana-Ramirez Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Ph.D. Student Fangqi Liu Named a 2023 Rising Star in Cyber-Physical Systems
- The Power of Health Informatics
- UCI Podcast: “If you can’t pay attention, you’re not alone”
- Senior Spotlight: GDIM Major Matthew Knight Presses Start on His Game Development Career
- Data@UCI Embarks on Data Science Adventures in Inaugural Datathon
- Philanthropy News Digest: “The Connected Arts Learning Framework: An Expanded View of the Purposes and Possibilities for Arts Learning”
April 2023
- UCI News: “UCI’s Graduate Programs Shine in U.S. News & World Report Rankings”
- Delving into The Privilege of Play
- Mohammad Moshirpour Receives 2023 APEGA Summit Award for Excellence in Education
- Student Spotlight: Dylan Riffle Explores Intersection of Computer Science, Biology and Agriculture
- Back-to-Back Wins Send ICS Grad Students to Microsoft Imagine Cup World Championship
- UCI to Compete in the International Collegiate Programming Contest’s North America Championship
- Alumni Spotlight: Game Play Sparks Software Engineering Career for Jun-Wei Lin
- Shuang Zhao Receives NSF CAREER Award
- Faculty Spotlight: Vijay Vazirani’s Contributions Stand the Test of Time
- USA Today: “Opinion: Will TikTok be banned? Maybe it should be for kids, at least.”
- The Race for AI: Time to Raise Awareness
March 2023
- Salon: “‘Like a frog in boiling water’: How Big Tech stole our ability to focus”
- MDS Program Explores Impact of Data in Politics with Shanthi Pierce
- Designing for Kids: A Youth-Centered Perspective for Tracking Health Data
- Postdoc Spotlight: Joey Huang Aims to Increase Inclusivity in Computer Science
- UCI News: “Disparate double major”
- ICS Students Win Grad Slam 2023 with Tech Applications in Health
- Applications Open for 2023 ICS Summer Academy on Data Analytics and Machine Learning
- Faculty Spotlight: Jennifer Wong-Ma and the Power of Community
- Identifying the Building Blocks of Attention in Deep Learning
- Student Spotlight: Dance and Data Science Double Major Emily Truong Moves to the Rhythm of Algorithms
- Newsweek: “Our Attention Spans Are Declining, and Technology Is Not Solely To Blame
- Future Squared with Steve Glaveski (Podcast): “Extend Your Attention Span with Gloria Mark”
- Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate Takami Sato Named Public Impact Fellow
- Irani Builds New Collaborations as Associate Director of the Simons Institute
- Faculty Spotlight: Veronica Berrocal Speaks to the Impact of Statistics
- SC Media: “Biden cyber strategy a ‘game changer’ and ‘revolutionary,’ industry pros say”
- The Linux Foundation: “UC Irvine Partners With Linux Foundation to Welcome New Open Source Projects from Peraton Labs to Scale 5G Security”
- Women in Technology at UCI: “Highlighting Women and Allies in Tech Across UCI”
February 2023
- MDS Program and SoCal RUG Bring Together Industry Experts to Discuss MLOps
- UCI News: “Examining instances when play can be painful”
- Staff Spotlight: Dr. Joni Ricks-Oddie Joins Long Beach City Council with Family and Career Proudly in Tow
- Student Creativity and Innovation Take Center Stage at Hack at UCI 2023
- The Lawfare Podcast: Chris Inglis
- The Darker Side of Play
- Engadget: “How AI will change the way we search, for better or worse”
- Informatics Ph.D. Student María José Anderson Coto Wins Miguel Velez Scholarship
- Informatics Course Includes Webinar on Integrating Accessibility Into a Computing Career
- Singh Gives the Lowdown on ChatGPT in Popular Mechanics Article
- Informatics Ph.D. Student Emani Dotch Hopes to Raise Awareness as Grad Slam Finalist
- UCI News: “UC Irvine alumni Paul and Jo Butterworth pledge $35.5 million to Donald Bren School”
- Tribute to Geoffrey Bowker Brings Together Scholarly Community
- Celebrating Black History Month
- Interdisciplinary Team Awarded $1.2M to Explore the Future of Risk Prediction in Fire Departments
January 2023
- Singh Talks ChatGPT and More on Popular Machine Learning Podcast
- Xu Receives ASA Nonparametric Statistics Section Student Paper Award
- Regaining Focus in a World of Digital Distractions
- Tech & Learning: “A Minecraft Server for Grieving Kids”
- University of Colorado Boulder News: “ICS Alumna Leysia Palen recognized as rare ‘distinguished professor’ by CU system”
- Irani Named ACM Fellow
- Can Gaming Cool Global Warming? An Experimental Climate XR Class Aims to Inspire Change
- CNN: “Your attention span is shrinking, studies say. Here’s how to stay focused”
- The Lawfare Podcast: “Bryan Cunningham on a Federally Funded Backstop for the Cyber Insurance Ecosystem”
- UCI Public Health: “UCI launches new public health informatics and technology training program with an emphasis on diversity among its students”
- The New York Times: “How to Focus Like It’s 1990”
- The Wall Street Journal: “How to Restore Our Dwindling Attention Spans”
- Software Engineering and Data Science Professional Master Programs Celebrate Capstone Successes
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December 2022
- Informatics Ph.D. Student Yawen Guo Wins 2nd Place at AMIA Student Paper Competition
- Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard and Gloria Mark
- TechGuide: “Computer Science Degree Expert Advice with Aditi Majumder”
- Grand Opening of the HPI Research Center at UCI
- Ph.D. Student Andrew Chio Named ARCS Scholar, UC National Lab In-Residence Fellow
- LA Times B2B Publishing: “Inspirational Women”
- EdSurge: “How Gaming Creates Opportunities for Learning That Endures”
- Chen Li Elevated to IEEE Fellow for Significant Contributions to Approximate Query Processing
- ICS Student Council Announces Winning Projects From WebJam 2022
- ICS Establishes First-Ever Scholarship for Military-Connected Students Through Master of Data Science Program
November 2022
- Wired: “Twitter’s Layoffs Are a Blow to Accessibility”
- UCI in Top 10 for Undergraduate Game Design and Software Engineering Programs
- UCI News: “An early warning system for future pandemics?”
- ICS Industry Showcase: A One-Stop Shop for Recruitment & Research Engagement
- From School Planners to Games: ZotHacks 2022 Delivers Creative Beginner Hacks
- Singularity Radio Podcast: “Understanding Attention in the Digital Age”
- Informatics Influence at CSCW Is 23 Papers Strong
- Meet the 2022-2023 ICS Peer Academic Advisors
- Student Spotlight: Veteran Jixing Bian Aims to Apply Computer Science to Support Environmental Values
- Student Spotlight: Veteran Zixu Yu Hopes to Continue Serving His Country
- HPI@UCI Symposium & Grand Opening
- Student Spotlight: Veteran Tucker Goldman Returns to School After Five Years of Service
October 2022
- Disaster Drill Aims to Aid the Elderly
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Informatics Ph.D. Student Lucas Silva Works to Increase Diversity in STEM
- Daily Pilot: “UC Irvine tests new technology to help seniors during Thursday’s California ShakeOut”
- Software Engineering Ph.D. Student Jessy Ayala Receives Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Markelle Kelly Highlights the Human Side of Computer Science
- ICS Students Attend 2022 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
- Rochester Institute of Technology: “Faculty researchers secure another workforce development grant to support growth of machinists in manufacturing”
- UCI News: “UCI and BlackBerry Win NSF Convergence Accelerator Grant”
- BBC: “The Computer Errors From Outer Space”
- UCI’s Master of Data Science to Launch Part-Time Program in Fall 2023
- Stacy Branham Breaks Down Barriers with “Hello World! I Have a Disability” Keynote
- ICS Welcomes More Than 1,000 New Students
- Staff Spotlight: Neha Rawal Stands Ready to Catch Anything Thrown Her Way
September 2022
- UCI Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing: “Bringing healthcare and technology into the future”
- NPR: “Rolling the dice on race in Dungeons & Dragons”
- Senior Spotlight: Tennis Player and CS Major Matthew Sah Serves Up Aces On and Off the Court
- Informatics Researchers Receive $1.2M to Improve Software Accessibility Testing Tools
- New Faculty Spotlight: Statistics Professor Hengrui Cai Strives for Real-World Impact
- SoCal Data Science Program Off to a Strong Start
- UCI in Top 10 on Fortune’s List of Best Master’s in Data Science Programs
- Recrafting Computer Science: $1.5M NSF Grant Leads to New Course Offering
- Register Today for the Southern California AI & Biomedicine Symposium
- CPO Magazine: “A Legal View of New NIST Quantum-Resistant Algorithms”
- UCI Ranked 24th in Undergraduate Computer Science Programs by U.S. News & World Report
- Senior Spotlight: Jose Cisneros Builds Impressive Resume with Trio of Internships
- ExperienceCraft: Creating a Custom Minecraft Server for Grieving Youth
- Undergraduates Conduct Biostatistics Research at New Summer Institute at UCI
- UCLA and UCI Research Team Receives NSF Grant for Pandemic Prediction
- Ph.D. Student Nika Nour Awarded 2022 Google Fellowship to Explore Effects of Deepfakes
- EdSurge: “Teaching ‘Digital Native’ College Students Who Understand TikTok — But Not Microsoft Excel”
- Wired: “Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them”
- UCI News: “Circadian rhythm disruption found to be common among mental health disorders”
August 2022
- Professors Nan and Gillen Receive $1.8M Grant to Study Statistical Methods for Alzheimer’s Research
- UCI in Top 10 on Fortune’s List of Best Master’s in Data Science Programs
- Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi Named a “Rising Star” in Networking and Communications
- Michael Franz Earns Distinguished Professor Title
- Staff Spotlight: Christina Zeek Wins Back-to-Back ‘Best of Show’ Baking Awards at OC Fair
- Marco Levorato to Give Keynote at IEEE Healthcom
- Cutting-Edge Work in Topological Network Alignment by Wayne Hayes and Students
July 2022
- Stephan Mandt Named Mercator Fellow
- Daniel Gillen Named Chancellor’s Professor
- Conference Experience Confirms Competitive Edge of ICS Capstone Program
- ICS and Google Researchers Awarded Best Task Paper for Collaboration on Automatically Updating Wikipedia
- Master of Computer Science Students Pitch Products and Network at Spring 2022 Showcase
- Los Angeles Times: “Researchers use AI to predict crime, biased policing in major U.S. cities like L.A.”
- UCI ML Repository Highlights Four Impactful Projects at 2022 ML Hackathon
- Alumni Spotlight: Rohit Khare’s Distinguished Career, Defined by the Web
June 2022
- Faculty and Staff Honored at Annual ICS Awards Celebration
- ICS Celebrates the Class of 2022
- ICS Project Expo Strengthens Industry Engagement and Showcases Student Talent
- UCI Takes Fourth Place in First Appearance at Embedded Capture the Flag Competition
- 2022 Butterworth Product Development Competition: Back in Full Swing!
- UCI Researchers Aim to Diversify Clinical Research Participation with $3.7M NIH Grant
- Computer Science Researchers Collaborating on $1.2M NSF Grant to Study Geometric Graphs
- Qu Elected International Statistical Institute Member
- UCI News: “UCI wins 5-year, $14M NIH grant to study brain circuits susceptible to aging, Alzheimer’s disease”
- Xi Lu Awarded ICS Steckler Family Endowed Fellowship
- UCI News: “UCI Podcast: Jonathan Alexander takes his own advice”
- UCI News: “Building a community that’s got game”
- Award-Winning Startup Foodpool Brings Affordable Food Delivery to UCI
- Gillian Hayes Elected to 2022 CRA Board of Directors
- Pierre Baldi Tackles Deep Learning at 800th Anniversary of the University of Padova in Italy
- Pride Month: Supporting LGBTQ+ in Tech
- VenusHacks 2022 Wraps Up Spring Quarter With Female Empowerment, Award-Winning Hacks
- 2022 Hall of Fame Celebrates Alumni Excellence in Engineering and Computer Sciences
- The Conversation: “What are digital twins? A pair of computer modeling experts explain”
May 2022
- MDS Program Hosts Panel Discussion on Career Development With Data Science Leaders
- Futurity: “Roadside Objects Can Trick Driverless Cars”
- UCI News: “UCI researchers: Autonomous vehicles can be tricked into dangerous driving behavior”
- Alumni Spotlight: ICS Couple Lloyd and Melissa Tullues ’03 Honored at UCI’s Lauds & Laurels Ceremony
- Student Council Brings ICS Community Together with Social, Educational Activities During ICS Week 2022
- ICS Alumna Alegria Baquero ’14 Named 2022 Moxie Award Winner
- Wired: “Google Has a Plan to Stop Its New AI From Being Dirty and Rude”
- Northwestern Now: “Judith Olson to Receive Honorary Degree From Northwestern University”
- IEEE Spectrum: Meta’s Challenge to OpenAI—Give Away a Massive Language Model”
- Don’t Think You Can Learn Bayesian Statistics? Think Again With ‘Bayes Rules!’
- Professors Berrocal and Shahbaba Named American Statistical Association Fellows
- UCI News: “#IamUCI – Pratyush Muthukumar”
- Staff Spotlight: Introducing Director of Research Development Darine Zaatari (Take Two!)
- Qu Named 2024 IMS Medallion Lecturer
- NSF Announces 2022 Graduate Research Fellows
April 2022
- Alumni Spotlight: Ludovico Verniani ’21 Rewards Adventure With Quadra App
- UCI Celebration of Teaching Honors Three ICS Faculty Members
- UCI Machine Learning Repository to Host 2022 ML Hackathon
- Professors Utts and Stern Honored with American Statistical Association Awards
- Inaugural ICS Summer Academy on Data Analytics Now Accepting Applications
- The ZotBins Team Continues to Grow, Supporting UCI’s Move to Zero Waste
- Senior Spotlight: CGS Major and Soccer Player Christian Bond-Flasza Wraps Up a Season of His Life
- Multidisciplinary Collaborators Set their Sights on Color Vision in the Dark
- Machine Learning ‘Street Talk’ Podcast Features Reality Check from Sameer Singh and Yasaman Razeghi
- ICS Researchers Win Best Paper Award at Eurosys 2022
- NLP Benchmarks & ML DevOps Interoperability With Yasaman Razeghi and Prof. Sameer Singh
- Study Explores Use of Online Ads and Individual-Level Mobility Data to Change and Monitor Behavior
- Applications Open for New UCI Summer Biostatistics Institute for Undergraduate Students
- ICS Graduate Programs in Statistics and Computer Science Among Top 20 for Public Universities
- MDS Student TY Shao Aims to Make an Impact in Healthcare
March 2022
- UCI’s Game Design Program Ranked 5th in State, 22nd in Nation by ACR
- Culture of Collaboration Leads to Cutting-Edge Work in AI
- UCI News: “UCI’s Graduate Programs Shine in U.S. News & World Report Rankings”
- UCI Deep Learning Researchers Advance Theory and Practice of Data Compression
- Ukr.ai Develops AI Model to Detect Misinformation on Russia-Ukraine War
- UCI News: “UCI researchers receive state funding to study pandemic forecasting”
- Mayara Costa Figueiredo Wins iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Faculty Spotlight: Crista Lopes Creates Startup to Reimagine Virtual Conferences
- UC Health: “University of California Health and CDPH COVID Modeling Consortium awards grant funding to further COVID-19 data research”
- UCI Researchers Draft Legislation to Incentivize Better Cybersecurity
- UCI News: “UCI researchers develop hybrid human-machine framework for building smarter AI”
- Hack at UCI Hosts Hybrid HackUCI 2022
- Ph.D. Student Ping-Xiang Chen Awarded J. Yang & Family Foundation Fellowship
- Women’s History Month: Resources for Empowering Women in Tech
February 2022
- CNBC: “Anthony Mays is using his experience as a Black tech employee to help others through the door”
- Alumni Spotlight: J.P. Allen’s Journey from Playing Atari in Saudi Arabia to Appearing on Jeopardy
- Statistics Ph.D. Student Isaac Goldstein Receives La Verne Noyes Fellowship
- UCI News: “UCI team uncovers key brain mechanisms for organizing memories in time”
- UCI News: “UCI announces launch of Institute for Precision Health”
- Student Spotlight: Computer Science and Music Double Major Joseph Wong Finds Harmony at UCI
- Young Explores the Use of Social Media to Monitor Public Health Behavior
- Alumni Spotlight: Anthony D. Mays Is Opening Doors for the Next Generation of Tech Talent
- Edutopia: “How Fan Fiction Can Do Wonders for Student Writing”
- Student Spotlight: CS Major Alex Meng Makes an Impact as a Resident Advisor
- Black History Month: Sharing Resources to Expand Diversity in Tech
January 2022
- Levorato Receives NSF Grant for Automated Design Solutions for Real-Time Computing
- UCI News: “7 UCI researchers are elected AAAS fellows, giving campus total of 192”
- 4 ICS Professors Among 7 UCI Researchers Named AAAS Fellows
- Xu Receives SLDS Student Paper Award
- Qi Alfred Chen Receives NSF CAREER Award for AI Security Research
- Inaugural GDIM Speaker Series Draws All-Star Lineup
- The New University: “UCI Students Launch the ZotMeal App”
- The Atlantic: “What If We Just Stopped Being So Available?”
- Mashable: “College prep software Naviance sells advertising data on millions of students”
- Tech Trends for 2022
- Tech Startup Emerge is Transforming Virtual Communication
- The Hitavada: “A Fine Blend of Science and Humane Thought”
- Nalini Venkatasubramanian Named ACM 2021 Distinguished Member
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December 2021
- MSWE Capstone Project Modernizes Database for Elder Abuse Forensic Center
- UCI News: “Games + Learning + Society Conference set for June 2022 on UCI campus”
- ICS Students Train for Embedded Capture the Flag Competition
- Informatics Professors Receive NSF Grant to Improve Instruction in Sustainability Science
- UCI and NYU Researchers Explore Machine Learning for Disease Risk Prediction with $1.3M NIH Grant
- Graduate Student Spotlight: MDS Ambassador Adelynn Paik Shares Her Academic, Professional Goals
- eSchool News: “Could digital citizenship be the most important pandemic lesson?”
- Disney Research Supports Stephan Mandt’s Work on Generative Modeling with $50,000 Gift
November 2021
- Informatics Ph.D. Student Maria Anderson Coto Receives the Rosalva Gallardo Valencia Graduate Award
- Ph.D. Candidate Emory Edwards Receives Public Impact Distinguished Fellowship
- Four Winning Teams Recognized at ZotHacks 2021
- Alumni Spotlight: Devin Held ’15 shares her journey from UCI to Arteria AI
- The Washington Post: “The world of ‘Minecraft’ is getting taller (and deeper) with its latest update”
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Vanessa Klotzman Aims to Make an Impact
- Inside Higher Ed: “The Promise and Perils of Master’s Degrees”
- Beyond the T-Test: UCI Professors Publish New Statistical Guidance for Neuroscience Research
- UCI School of Medicine: “Multidisciplinary team from UCI publishes new guidance for neuroscience statistical analysis”
- CNN: “Meet the teens making the digital world a kinder and gentler place”
- The Wall Street Journal: “Ping. Ding. Chirp. Notifications Are Driving Us Crazy.”
- Third Annual ICS Industry Showcase Continues to Foster Engagement and Recruitment
- The Future of Conferences: Crista Lopes Considers Sustainability and Inclusivity
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Statistics Ph.D. Student Tianyu Pan Wins Two Competitive Awards
- Hack at UCI to Host ZotHacks 2021
- Paul Dourish Wins Lasting Impact Award for Rethinking Interaction Design
- Tech & Learning: “5 Ways to Make Edtech More Inclusive”
- Meet the 2021-2022 ICS Peer Academic Advisors
- Kurt Squire Shares Lessons Learned In ‘Making Games for Impact’
- Student Spotlight: U.S. Marine Corps Put Cheonwoo Seo on Path to Business Information Management at UCI
- Computer Science Ph.D. Student Vikram Narayanan Receives IBM Fellowship
October 2021
- Sang-Woo Jun and Collaborators Win Best Paper Award for Predictive Maintenance at the Edge
- Senior Spotlight: Kazeem Salaam Promotes STEM Learning, Combining Programming Skills with a Passion for Helping Others
- Gillian Hayes Receives Impact Award for Connecting Disability Studies to Assistive Technology
- 2020 ACM Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award Awarded to Professor Michael Franz
- David Eppstein Receives 2022 SIAM Best Paper Award
- Professor Sam Malek Receives GAANN Award to Strengthen Cybersecurity
- ICSSC Hosts Annual WebJam Competition to Teach Web Development
- Elizabeth Lee Wins Data Science for Social Good Award
- Game Design and Interactive Media Program Receives Distinguished Educator Award
- Student-Founded Startup Streamlines the Internship Hunt
- Alumni Spotlight: Jeff Fulkerson ’07 Helps Businesses Succeed With FroBro Web Technologies
- Alumni Spotlight: ‘Timely Rejections’ Propel Aylwin Villanueva ’10 to Blockbuster Success
- Stephan Mandt and Collaborators Receive $3.5 Million to Study Machine Learning for Climate Science
- ICS Welcomes 3 New Faculty for 2021
- UCI News: “Mixed Majors”
- Faisal Nawab Receives Facebook Award for Next-Generation Data Infrastructure
- Sam Malek Receives NSF Award to Develop a Framework for Reusing Software Tests
September 2021
- Child-Centered Technology at Heart of $11 Million Award from the Jacobs Foundation
- NSF Civic Innovation Challenge Awards $1 Million to UCI for Disaster Resilience in Aging Communities
- Adriana Meza Soria Receives Latino Excellence and Achievement Award for Graduate Student Excellence
- UCI News: “UCI informatics professors relaunch center on computer games, learning and society”
- Chen Li Receives NSF Grant for Collaborative Data Analytics
- The Brilliant 10: “The Most Innovative Up-and-Coming Minds in Science”
- UCI News: “UCI’s Stacy Branham highlighted on Popular Science Brilliant 10 list”
- 90 ICS students and 6 faculty and staff to attend 2021 Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference
- ADL’s Center for Technology and Society Names Constance Steinkuehler a Belfer Fellow
- Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi’s Work on Solar Superstorms Raises Concerns of Internet Apocalypse
- UCI News: “Jacobs Foundation awards UCI $11 million to improve digital technologies for children”
August 2021
- Harnessing the Data Revolution: ICS Researchers and Collaborators Receive $1.5M Data Science Grant
- Wired: “A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an ‘Internet Apocalypse'”
- Marco Levorato Receives NSF Grant for Mobile Autonomous Systems (MAS) Research
- Computer Science Team Presents Research on the ‘Security of Deep Learning based Automated Lane Centering under Physical-World Attack’ at USENIX Security Symposium
- Lifetime Achievement and Dinsdale Awards: Double the Accolades for Professor Emerita Jessica Utts
- John Seberger and Geoffrey Bowker Win Social Informatics Best Paper Award
- UCI News: “UCI-led study finds disparities in O.C. rates of COVID-19 infection, mortality”
- Gizmodo: How Has Social Media Impacted Our Mental Health
- Commit the Change: Students Creating Software for Nonprofits Gain Real-World Experience
- From Theory to Practice: UCI’s Machine Learning Hackathon Delivers
- Sandy Irani and Sameer Singh Receive Distinguished Faculty Awards
- CHOC teams up with UCI to offer pediatric capstone project in data science
- Mine Dogucu Receives Young Investigator Award
- CHOC Provider Connection: “CHOC to launch pilot study on speech therapy app that UCI students helped develop”
- Informatics Capstone Team Develops ‘Amplify,’ Connects Kids With Speech Language Services
July 2021
- The New York Times: “New Policy Aims to Help Transgender Researchers Update Names on Old Work”
- Voice of OC: “OC Coastal Cities See Covid Spike”
- IMS Bulletin: “Qu Appointed IMS Program Secretary”
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Daniel Cheng’s Computer Science Research Has Real-World Impact
- LA Daily News: “Los Angeles, Orange County region sees biggest tech-talent gain in North America”
- KCRW: “Masks should be mainstream, LA’s flip-flopping policies erode public trust, says psychologist”
- Tech & Learning: “Virtual Reality Teaching: Successes and Challenges”
- Facebook Awards Research Gift to Dutt and Maity for Studying Hyperscale Data Center Platform Power Management
- Wired: “No, Facebook and Google Are Not Public Utilities”
- ICS Appoints Two New Department Chairs
- ComicBook: “Cartoon Network Partners With Raising Good Gamers to Promote Positive Online Gaming”
- Computer Science Researchers Win ‘Article of the Year’ Award
- Professor Theresa Tanenbaum Wins Dynamic Womxn of UCI Award for Social Justice Activism
- Informatics Professor Paul Dourish Named Steckler Endowed Chair
- Reappointment of Dean Marios Papaefthymiou
June 2021
- Four ICS Professors Receive NSF CAREER Awards
- CNBC: “TikTok insiders say social media company is tightly controlled by Chinese parent ByteDance”
- The Resilience of the Class of 2021
- The New York Times: “Do Chance Meetings at the Office Boost Innovation? There’s No Evidence of It.”
- In Memoriam: Vince Steckler ’80
- Capstone Program Showcases Growing Talent of ICS Students
- Pierre Baldi’s New Book Explores ‘Deep Learning in Science’
- UCI News: “Beyond Zoom: Virtual reality classrooms”
- Irvine Standard: “UCI’s cybersecurity club makes history”
- Lawfare: “Fighting Insider Abuse After Van Buren”
- Maestro: A New Platform for Building Reliable and Robust AI Systems
- A bold decision to study abroad in high school led Sirui Hu to UCI and beyond (Data Science major)
- KABC: “Biden weighs direct action against Russian targets following cyberattacks”
- Teach Access Recognizes Mine Dogucu as Curriculum Development Awardee
- Professor Mohsen Imani Awarded Two Grants to Study Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing
- CNN: “‘It’s just human dignity.’ Trans writers and journalists struggle to get old bylines corrected”
May 2021
- UCI News: “#IamUCI profile of Mayara Costa Figueiredo, Informatics Ph.D. ’21”
- Professor Anne Marie Piper Receives Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award
- Nalini Venkatasubramanian Named One of 10 Stars in Computer Networking and Communications
- Medium: “Epic Women in Cyber — Saltanat Mashirova”
- New Security Threat for Self-Driving Cars: Invisible Road Obstacles
- UCI News: “Efforts to treat COVID-19 patients chronicled in UC Health medications data”
- CNN Business: “These companies were hybrid before the pandemic. Here’s how they make it work”
- VenusHacks Fosters Gender Inclusivity in STEM
- 11 ICS Professors Included on Guide2Research’s 2021 Ranking of Top Scientists in Computer Science
- UCI’s Informatics B.S. Ranked 4th by BDC
- UCI Celebration of Teaching: Professors Rebecca Black and Katie Salen Tekinbaş Named Dean’s Honorees
- Staff Spotlight: Zaw Maung Wins on ‘The Price Is Right’
- Professor Daniel Epstein Receives ICTS Pilot Studies Award
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Persistence Pays Off for Ph.D. Candidate Ivan De Oliveira Nunes
- Professor Crista Lopes Immerses Students in a Virtual World for ICS 10: How Computers Work
- UCI News: “Michael Franz wins ACM Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award”
- UCI Finishes in Top 5 at National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
- Computer Science Undergraduate Pratyush Muthukumar Named 2021 Goldwater Scholar
- Phys.org: “An artificial neural network joins the fight against receding glaciers”
- eSchool News: “Is digital citizenship the most important takeaway from distance learning?”
April 2021
- Exploring and Strengthening Sports Stats at UCI
- Michael Franz Wins ACM Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award
- Amazon Science: “2020 Amazon Research Awards recipients announced (Sameer Singh awarded)”
- UCI News: “Risk to reward: One alum’s journey”
- Computer Science Student Cheng Zhang Receives Facebook Ph.D. Fellowship
- The Role of Computing in Sustainability and Solutions that Scale
- Hal S. Stern is named UCI provost and executive vice chancellor
- Join the Upcoming Datafication and Community Activism Forum
- Three ICS Students Receive 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- Remaking Tomorrow podcast: “Mimi Ito interviewed”
- Played: “What Today’s Generation Of Gamers Get Right”
- UCI News: “UCI advances to national cyber defense competition following “historic” regionals win”
- Alumni Spotlight: Archana Senthilkumar’s Real-World Education Helps Bring Fictional Worlds to Life
March 2021
- New WICS Mentorship Program Helps High School Girls Explore Computer Science
- ACM: “Celebrate Women’s History Month by Sharing Your Stories”
- Student Spotlight: A New Season Has Begun for Basketball Player Jeron Artest
- Connected Learning Lab to Explore Pivotal Transitions in STEM Learning and Career Development
- ‘Empowered Women Empower Women’ is Mantra of ICS Alumni Chapter’s WomXn’s HERstory Panel
- Alumni Spotlight: Leysia Palen’s Commitment to Inquiry About the Role of Computing Fosters Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- NPR: “Too Much Focusing Is Draining. Here’s A Better Strategy”
- A digital prosthetic eye for the 21st century
- Amazon Science: “How one intern’s research had real-world impact for Twitch moderators”
- Amstat News: “Celebrating Women in Statistics 2021”
- VenusHacks: Apply Now for UCI’s First Women-Centric Hackathon
- TIPPERS Wins Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) Innovation Award
- Advanced Science News: “Women in STEM you should know”
- ICS Researchers Work to Find Clarity for COVID Long-Haulers
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Elizabeth Ankrah Explores Tech for ‘Care Journeys’
- The New York Times: “Many ‘Long Covid’ Patients Had No Symptoms From Their Initial Infection”
- Allyship Webinar Provides Practical Advice on Advocating for Inclusivity
- UCI Students Cultivate Culture of Innovation with New VC Fund
- HackUCI 2021: Award-Winning Hacks from Home
- Alumni Spotlight: Jennifer Pascua Shares Her Success in Technology and Innovation by Paying it Forward
February 2021
- Alumni Chapter’s Lunch & Learn Panel Discussion Showcases Black Superstar Leaders in ICS
- Lifewire: “Playing Video Games May Be Good for Your Mental Health, Experts Say”
- Want to Better Support Inclusivity in IT? Join the ‘Allyship That Makes an Impact’ Webinar
- Exploring Design + Ethics: Postdoc Arpita Bhattacharya and Industry Leaders Advocate for Inclusion
- UCI researchers join forces to tackle challenges in human health and the environment
- ICS Researchers Publish Novel Paper on System Design for Virtual Beings
- Black History Month: Pioneers in Science and Technology, Part II
- Professor Amiri Sani’s Research Group Wins 2020 Android Security and PrIvacy REsearch (ASPIRE) Award
- PsyPost: “Trump’s tweets linked to changes in Americans’ beliefs about the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic”
- New World Notes: “Bored With Zoom, Professor Teaches Computer Programming In A Virtual World, And Streams It To Her Twitch — Here’s Her Advice For Other Educators”
- Professor Sameer Singh Awarded Fairness in AI Grant from NSF and Amazon
- UCI Institute for Future Health to harness technology to build personalized health model
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Nika Nour’s Unique Background Fortifies Battle Against Online Misinformation
- Professor Theresa Tanenbaum Selected to Serve as Ambassador of Innovation
- Black History Month: Pioneers in Science and Technology
January 2021
- KPCC AirTalk: “Acknowledging, Assessing And Addressing Racism Within The Fantasy Genre”
- Romper: “Here’s Why Your Kid Will Literally Not Stop Talking About Roblox”
- Wired: “D&D Must Grapple With the Racism in Fantasy”
- Faculty Innovation Fellowship Program Welcomes Second Cohort
- Orange County Business Journal: “UCI Cybersecurity Group To Help Counter Threats”
- A Look at Health and Technology Trends for 2021 and Beyond
- Philanthropy News Digest: “UC Irvine Receives $10.4 million for art history, inclusive computing”
- Professor Sharad Mehrotra Named IEEE Fellow
- ICS Alumna Halleh Kianfar ’03 Wins on ‘Wheel of Fortune’
- $5 Million Gift from ICS Alumnus Establishes UCI’s Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical, and Accessible Technology (CREATe)
- Orange County Business Journal: “UCI Gets $10.4M for Computer Sciences, Art”
- LA Times: “UC Irvine receives $10.4-million donation for art history, center for inclusive computing”
- Thrive Global, Neil Sahota of UC Irvine: “As leaders,we are responsible for the inclusion of our employees.“
- Alumnus Vincent Steckler ’80 and his wife donate $10.4 million to UCI
- Computer Science and Software Engineering Professional Programs Showcase Student Success
- Exploring Design + Ethics: Anne Marie Piper and Industry Leaders Help Shift Power Dynamics
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December 2020
- Senior Spotlight: Daniel Afework Finds Opportunities to Learn Everywhere
- $5 Million in NSF Funding Boosts Development of Mixed Reality (XR) Platform for Workforce Training
- Ph.D. Student Rainforest Scully-Blaker Receives Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Award
- Professors Gillian Hayes and Sharad Mehrotra Named Distinguished Members of the ACM
- ACM Recognizes 2020 Distinguished Members for Contributions that Propel the Digital Age
- Expanding Technology Access to Support People with Visual Disabilities During the Pandemic
- ICS Researchers Win Best Paper Award for Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation
- Fellowship Fuels Ph.D. Student Nika Nour’s Study of Deepfakes
- Bloomberg: “Where the Teens Are Hanging Out in Quarantine”
November 2020
- Professor Malek Receives Test of Time Award for Work on Self-Adaptive Software Systems
- UCI Launches New Professional Program: Master of Data Science
- MSWE Student Xinyi Hu Takes the Gold at the Global AI Innovation Challenge
- Staff Spotlight: Veteran Filbert Fontejon Captures and Communicates Essence of ICS
- Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jing Zhang Works to Advance Genomics
- Program Upgrade: Introducing ‘Game Design and Interactive Media’
October 2020
- ICS Welcomes 7 New Faculty for 2020
- ICS Researchers Receive $1.5 Million NSF Grant for Smart Water Infrastructures
- Computer Science Researchers Win Best Paper Award for Work on Smart Community Monitoring
- CNN: “How Roblox became the ‘it’ game for tweens — and a massive business”
- 2020 ICS Industry Showcase Goes Virtual
- Exploring Design + Ethics: Gillian Hayes Discusses Inclusive Design with Industry Leaders
- A Campus Gem: UCI’s Statistical Consulting Services
- Professor Crooks to Discuss Education Technology in Working Class Communities of Color
- Computer Science Researchers Contribute to ‘Editor’s Choice’ Paper on Deep Learning and Hair Loss
- Virtual Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Contact Tracing – Oct. 2
- Orange County Business Journal: “UCI Forecasts COVID-19 Trends in OC”
- ICS Team Takes 1st Place at Baidu’s AutoDriving Capture the Flag Competition
September 2020
- Alumni Spotlight: Dan Woolley’s Success in Building from Scratch
- KUCI Office Hours Podcast: “Keeping Up with Coronavirus Statistics”
- UCI News: “UCI is No. 1 in Sierra magazine’s 2020 ‘Cool Schools’ ranking of sustainability leaders”
- Connected Learning Blog: “Raising Good Gamers: New Report Tackles the Systemic Forces Shaping the Climate of Online Play for Youth”
- Professor Rina Dechter Receives 2020 Classic Paper Award
- gamesindustry.biz: “EA, Microsoft and Epic Games join Raising Good Gamers’ advisory board”
- Women in Technology at UCI: First Event Offers Encouragement and Empowerment
- First-ever Cannabinoid Anxiety Relief Education Study (C.A.R.E.S.) will explore CBD and Cannabis Efficacy for Anxiety aggravated by COVID-19
- 108 ICS students, 7 faculty and staff to attend 2020 Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference
- Informatics Ph.D. Graduate Clara Caldeira Named 2020 Computing Innovation Fellow
- UC IT Blog: “Capstone Project Supports Student Affairs and Student Success”
- Faculty Spotlight: Rina Dechter is Pushing the Frontiers of AI Research
- EdSurge: “What Should Recess — and Play — Look Like in a Socially Distanced World?”
- eFinancialCareers: “How to get an internship at a top technology firm”
- UCI News: “UCI statisticians release new online Orange County COVID-19 information resource”
- UCI Ranked 25th in Undergraduate Computer Science Programs by U.S. News & World Report
- UCI News: “UCI is ranked among nation’s top 10 public universities for sixth year in a row”
- Professor Mandt Awarded NSF Grant on Deep Variational Data Compression
- Professors Amiri Sani and Tsudik Investigate Techniques to Authenticate Photos and Videos
- ICS Statistics Researchers Release New Online ‘OC COVID Situation Report’
- Increasing Corporate Contributions to Social Good: An Interactive Simulation
- Professor Sameer Singh Receives NSF Grant to Explore and Address Vulnerabilities in Machine Learning Explanations
- Exploring Design + Ethics: Join Professor Roderic Crooks for a Virtual Discussion with Industry Leaders
- Workflow: “Colleges reopen with an assist from tech”
- TWIML AI Podcast: “Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with Sameer Singh”
- How Has COVID-19 Affected Software Development?
August 2020
- Ph.D. Student Lucy Pei Wins International Scholarship for Research into Tech for Social Good
- Informatics Professor Kai Zheng Helps UCI Leverage Health Data
- ICS Undergrad Adarsh Pachori Co-Founds AI-Driven Recruiting App
- Next Generation Schooling: Changing the Story with Nithin Jilla, Founder of Dreams for Schools (video)
- Nature: “Millions of students are returning to US universities in a vast unplanned pandemic experiment”
- Professor Amiri Sani, UCR Professor Receive $500,000 NSF Award to Improve Security of OS Kernels
- Security Vulnerability in Self-Driving Cars Unveils Achilles’ Heel of Sensor Fusion
- Education Dive: "Colleges look to apps that screen for virus symptoms and trace contacts" (Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Sharad Mehrotra quoted)
- UCI News: "UCI researchers launch first-of-its-kind coronavirus statistics portal"
- Professor Annie Qu Works to Enhance the Detection of Invasive Cancers Using Medical Imaging Data
- Computer Science Capstone Pilot Paves the Way for New Course
July 2020
- Forbes: "Covid Crimes: Espionage, Hackers And Why America Is Vulnerable" (Bryan Cunningham quoted)
- Sameer Singh Wins Best Paper Award at ACL 2020 for Tool that Test NLP Models
- ICS Team Explores Distance-Based Mental Health Services for Minority Students
- ICS Alumnus Mamadou Diallo Wins Galileo Award for Cyber/Science & Technology
- Health IT Analytics: "UCI Uses Campus Wi-Fi to Test COVID-19 Contact Tracing App"
- VentureBeat: "AI researchers create testing tool to find bugs in NLP from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft"
- UCI News: "UCI researchers use campus as test bed for coronavirus contact tracing system"
- Professional Program Delivers: One ‘Jam-Packed Year’ Lands Megan Matsumoto in a New Career as Product Designer at Alation
- Psych Central: "Teen Use of Social Media for Social Support – Tips to Optimize Benefits" (Mimi Ito cited)
June 2020
- NBC San Diego: "How to Work Effectively From Home: Tips From an Expert" (Judith Olson interviewed)
- Hal Stern Selected as a Fellow of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis
- Computer Science Professor Pierre Baldi Involved in Multiple Multidisciplinary Collaborations
- Alumni Spotlight: Paul Mockapetris Receives ACM Software System Award for Developing the DNS
- UCI News: "Five UCI junior faculty named Hellman Fellows for 2020-21" (Sameer Singh named)
- University Business: "Social media offers students a ‘lifeline’ in age of anxiety" (Mimi Ito cited)
- The Atlantic: "What America Asks of Working Parents Is Impossible" (Melissa Mazmanian quoted)
- Cision PRWeb: "Teens’ technology use and mental health: New report from the Connected Learning Lab provides insight into Youth Connections for Wellbeing"
- NPR: "Get A Comfortable Chair: Permanent Work From Home Is Coming" (Judith Olson quoted)
- Ph.D. Student Mayara Costa Figueiredo Receives 2020 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant
- UCI Podcast: Melissa Mazmanian on work and parenting in the digital age
- Alumni Spotlight: ‘Magic’ of Computer Science Still Excites Greg Hopwood, Ph.D. ’78
- Tabellion Provides Secure Legal Contracts on Mobile Devices
- A New Perspective on Technology and the Realities of Work-Life Balance
- CS Researchers Vikram Narayanan and Anton Burtsev Win Best Paper Award
- Professors Marco Levorato and Stephan Mandt Receive NSF/Intel Grant for Autonomous UAVs
- VMware Supports Professor Burtsev’s Next-Generation Safe Operating System
May 2020
- Gene Tsudik and Co-authors Receive 2020 Jean-Claude Laprie Award
- Bold: "Making distance learning work" by Gillian Hayes
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Eugenia Rho Reveals Risks of Political Hashtags
- Neftali Watkinson Medina Receives Latino Excellence and Achievement Award
- Freethink: "Can Humans Figure Out How Deep Learning AI Thinks?" (Sameer Singh quoted)
- Christie Abel and Amanda Cullen Receive Women Techmakers Scholarships for Gaming
- UCI News: "National institute awards $20 million in renewed funding to forensic science center"
- Michelle Nuño Selected to Participate in the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
- ICS Researchers Receive $1.6M DARPA Grant to Advance Machine Learning
- Professor Franz’s Research Group Invited to Present at Black Hat USA 2020
- Professor Roderic Crooks Talks Technology and Racial Inequality in the Context of COVID-19
- UCI Mind: "Alzheimer’s Disease, Clinical Trials, And COVID-19 With Dr. Daniel Gillen"
- MIT Sloan Management Review: "Why Time Signals Still Matter When Working Remotely" (Co-authored by Melissa Mazmanian)
April 2020
- UCI Brain: "Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Babak Shahbaba"
- Undergraduate Informatics Course Offers Real-World Lessons on Inclusive Human-Centered Design
- Cadena de Favores: Rosalva Gallardo Valencia y Adriana Meza Soria
- A Chain of Giving Back: Rosalva Gallardo Valencia and Adriana Meza Soria
- UCI News: "UCI faculty create curricula for kids worldwide confined by coronavirus" (Bill Tomlinson mentioned)
- ACM: "Amid COVID-19 Travel Restrictions, World’s Leading Computing Society Releases Report on Best Practices for Virtual Conferences" (Crista Lopes and Gary Olson mentioned)
- Raising Good Gamers: Katie Salen-Tekinbaş Tackles Online Toxicity with New Initiative
- Informatics Professor Crista Lopes Co-Chairs Task Force on Best Practices for Virtual Conferences
- NSF Announces 2020 Graduate Research Fellows
- The Atlantic: "We Need to Stop Trying to Replicate the Life We Had" (Melissa Mazmanian quoted)
- Los Angeles Times : "Online COVID-19 diaries are helping people cope. They’re also a research gold mine" (Sean Young quoted)
- UCI News: "Coronavirus Twitter map developed at UCI displays social media reactions to COVID-19" (Chen Li quoted)
- The List TV: "3 Ways to Stay Social While Social Distancing" (featuring Melissa Mazmanian)
- Chemical & Engineering News: "Exploring chemical space: Can AI take us where no human has gone before?" (Pierre Baldi quoted)
- ShadowCast: Novel Virtual Reality Platform Brings Broadway Dreams to Life
March 2020
- 2020 Hall of Fame Celebration Honors Achievement and Opportunity
- University Business: "Steinkuehler to keynote Academic Esports Conference"
- ‘Just Code It’ Introduces Middle Schools Girls to Computer Science
- Computer Science Team Develops CoronavirusTwitterMap
- Alumni Spotlight: Greg Bolcer Shares Insights from his Decades of Tech Experience
- The Atlantic: "The Art of Socializing During a Quarantine" (Melissa Mazmanian quoted)
- Applied Innovation: "Orange County Entrepreneurs Come Together to Share Experiences" (Gillian Hayes quoted)
- Study of Technologies in a Leaderless Movement Receives Honorable Mention at CHI 2020
- Confident Gamma Phi Beta: Profile of ICS Alumna Kimberly Hermans
- Staff Spotlight: Debra Brodbeck’s Unique Background a Perfect Fit for Institute for Software Research
- TechTarget: "As remote work tools deploy, next task is behavioral " (Judy Olson quoted)
- ACM Interactions: "Inclusive and Engaged HCI" by Gillian Hayes
- Amstat News: "Celebrating Rising Undergraduate Women in Statistics and Data Science"
- Yahoo Style: "Why chasing 'inbox zero' is a waste of time" (Gloria Mark mentioned)
February 2020
- Alumni Spotlight: David Wood’s Unique Career Path Leads to Innovative Startup
- Wired: "This Technique Uses AI to Fool Other AIs" (Sameer Singh quoted)
- Informatics Professor Emeritx Bonnie Nardi Receives 2020 Social Impact Award
- UCI News: "UCI and Disney Research scientists develop AI-enhanced video compression model" (Stephan Mandt quoted)
- Global Game Jam 2020: A Model of Diversity and Inclusivity
- North Carolina Public Radio WUNC: "Embodied: How Online Gaming Creates Real-Life Love" (Tess Tanenbaum mentioned)
- UCI News: "UCI Esports receives $50,000 gift from top video game streamer Pokimane"
- AI and Art: Lessons Learned from an Exhibit in Italy
- Computer Scientists Make a Splash in Art World Analyzing the Salvator Mundi
- Second Annual Southern California Software Engineering Symposium Builds Promising Partnerships
- Connected Learning Alliance: "Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship–The Final Report from the Connected Learning Research Network" by Mimi Ito
- UCI School of Education: Interview with Informatics Associate Professor Kylie Peppler
- Informatics Ph.D. Student Jazette Johnson Wins Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship
- UCI’s Game Design Program Ranked 4th in State, 13th in Nation by ACR
January 2020
- Inc.: "3 Ways to Unleash High-Impact Work in 2020" (Gloria Mark cited)
- Computer Science Majors Preston Tai and Brandon Tom Appointed UROP Fellows
- Informatics Ph.D. Candidate Amanda Cullen Named 2020 Twitch Research Fellow
- Microsoft Research Blog: "2020 Ada Lovelace and PhD Fellowships help recipients achieve broad research and educational goals"
- The Connected Learning Lab Explores New Ways to Support Youth Development
- Still Sorting Things Out: Conference Honors Legacy of Book Coauthored by Professor Bowker
- Join Ruha Benjamin in Exploring Discriminatory Designs That Encode Inequity
- MIT Technology Review: "The Human Screenome Project will capture everything we do on our phones" (Mimi Ito quoted)
- UCI-led Project Seeks to Combat Wildfires
- ZotBins and Zero Waste Anteaters Support UC Goal for 2020
- Informatics Student Emma Anderson Named Kleiner Perkins Fellow
- Medium: "Reverse Engineer an Awesome Grace Hopper Celebration Experience" by ICS Alumna Alegría Baquero
- Ph.D. Student Phanwadee Sinthong and Professor Carey Win Best Student Paper Award
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December 2019
- Radio New Zealand: "Political hashtags make people less likely to believe the news" (Ph.D. student Eugenia Ha Rim Rho interviewed)
- Statistics Ph.D. Student Mary Ryan Receives Public Impact Fellowship
- Creative Bloq: "How to hone your design skills (if you're a developer)"
- Explore Virtual Reality With New VR Headsets Loan Program and Workshop
- Ph.D. Student Mayara Costa Figueiredo Selected for CHI 2020 Doctoral Consortium
- Harvard Business Review: "The AI Transparency Paradox " (Sameer Singh research cited)
- Professor Berrocal Elected Chair of the Section in Environmental Sciences of the ISBA
- Harvard Business Review: "How to Overcome Your (Checks Email) Distraction Habit" (Gloria Mark quoted)
- The San Diego Union-Tribune: "Esports makes its way into San Diego high schools and has boosted some students into college" (Constance Steinkuehler quoted)
- KCBS Radio: "How Political Hashtags Make Discussion More Partisan"
- Staff Spotlight: Rosemary Busta’s Journey from Chemistry to Statistics to Scotland and Beyond
November 2019
- ZotBot Competing in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge
- UCI News: "Nine UCI Researchers Named AAAS Fellows"
- The Conversation: "Political hashtags like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter make people less likely to believe the news" by Ph.D. Candidate Eugenia Ha Rim Rho
- Professor James Jones Receives ASE 2019’s Most Influential Paper Award
- Spectrum News: "UC Researchers Teach Computer to Solve Rubik's Cube" (video)
- How Do You Like It So Far?: "Digital Diversity with Craig Watkins, Mimi Ito and Katie Salen"
- Developing a Data Analytics Course for Low-Income High Schools
- Developing a Data Analytics Course for Low-Income High Schools
- ICS Partnership with AI2 Leads to a New Toolkit and Best Demo Paper Award
- Professor Regan and Ph.D. Student Reza Asadi Win Best Paper Award
- Ph.D. Candidate Reyhaneh Jabbarvand Selected as “Rising Star”
- Professor Tsudik Shares Cybersecurity Expertise During Fulbright Specialist Visit in Myanmar
- Fast Company: "People are building technology that could survive the apocalypse" (Bill Tomlinson quoted)
- Professor Michael Franz Elected IFIP Fellow
- Professor Tsudik Elected to Inaugural Cohort of IFIP Fellows
- Professor Tsudik Receives SRC Grant for Research on Security of Low-End IoT Devices
- Healthline: "People Are Getting Their STDs Diagnosed on Reddit" (Sean Young quoted)
- Student Spotlight: Veteran Mario Rodriguez Thankful for Opportunity to Serve
- Student Spotlight: Veteran Chauncy Sapien Hopes to Create Software to Support the U.S. Military
- Family Circle: "Mind Control: How to Focus and Pay Attention" (Gloria Mark quoted)
- Professor Franz awarded another U.S. Patent
- Professor Franz's Paper wins Test of Time Award
- UCI Researchers Present at Black Hat 2019
- Informatics Alumna Lilly Irani Receives Diana Forsythe Prize for Chasing Innovation
- NPR: "It's A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One" (Mimi Ito cited)
October 2019
- Boston Globe: "Amid BC suicide case, a look at how texting can empower abusers" (Gloria Mark quoted)
- EdSurge: "How to Connect With Your Kids’ Digital Interests and Become a Media Mentor" by Mimi Ito
- Sang-Woo Jun Awarded Funding for Two New Projects
- Advancing Accessible Technologies for All
- Global Sport Matters: "Diversity, inclusion remain a problem in esports industry" (Bo Ruberg featured)
- KPCC: "Vexed By College Statistics Courses? New Approaches Emphasize Practical Learning" (Jessica Utts interviewed)
- UCI Machine Learning Repository to Receive $1.8 Million Upgrade
- LAist: "SoCal Professors Push To Make College-Level Statistics Less Painful " (Jessica Utts quoted)
- Student Spotlight: Ryan Yang and the Instant Popularity of Boba Watch
- Registration Open for the 2019 Opioid Hackathon
- Apply for the New Rosalva Gallardo Valencia Graduate Award in ICS by Oct. 31
- Professor Sean Young named to CDC committee on sexually transmitted infections
- Sergio Gago-Masague Collaborates on $1.8M Grant to Counter Negative Medication Beliefs
- Informatics Ph.D. Candidate Amanda Cullen Selected as ARCS Scholar
- Financial Times: "Cyber fraud techniques evolve into confidence trick arms race" (Ian Harris quoted)
- ICS Welcomes 8 New Faculty for 2019
- ICS Welcomes 8 New Faculty for 2019
- ICS Welcomes 8 New Faculty for 2019
- Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi Attends the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
- Senior Spotlight: Taneisha Arora Pursues Her Passions, From Working in Industry to Running a Bakery
- Senior Spotlight: Taneisha Arora Pursues Her Passions, From Working in Industry to Running a Bakery
- Senior Spotlight: Taneisha Arora Pursues Her Passions, From Working in Industry to Running a Bakery
- Turing’s Invisible Hand: "Blind Folks and the Evolving Elephant" by Vijay Vazirani
- Ramesh Jain Wins Inaugural IEEE TCMC Impact Award
- Eight Habits of Expert Software Designers: An Illustrated Guide
- Informatics Ph.D. Student Lucy Pei Receives Zonta Women in Technology Scholarship
- Turing's Invisible Hand: "Matching Markets @ Simons: Driven by Theory, Driving the Economy" (Vijay Vazirani mentioned)
- UCI, other researchers develop deep-learning technique to ID at-risk anatomy in CT scans
- Inclusive Streaming Workshop Builds Community to Advance Research
- The Atlantic: "What Fan Fiction Teaches That the Classroom Doesn’t" (Rebecca Black quoted)
- Training Tomorrow’s Software Engineers
September 2019
- Developing an AR Platform to Better Train American Workers
- Science 101: "AI solves a Rubik’s cube without human help" (Pierre Baldi research mentioned)
- Qualcomm Funds Research Projects in Computer Vision and Machine Learning
- Professor Nardi and Informatics Grad Students Receive Best Paper Award
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Ernest Garrison Finds Joy in Helping Others
- Professor Chen’s Talk on Self-Driving Security Wins HotSec Awards
- UCI team uses machine learning to help tell which wildfires will burn out of control (Padhraic Smyth mentioned)
- The Conversation: "How Congress turns citizens’ voices into data points" by Informatics Ph.D. Candidate Samantha McDonald
- Professor Gloria Mark Awarded Collaborative NSF Future of Work Grant
- Multidisciplinary Graduate Training Program Advances Wildfire Prediction Research
- NSF Continues Funding for AsterixDB with $2M Grant
- Join the Conversation on Inclusion in Live Streaming
- Forbes: "'Robots And Algorithms And AI, Oh My!' Careers Scholar Gina Dokko's Take On What They All Mean" (Melissa Mazmanian mentioned)
August 2019
- A Trio of New Distinguished Professors in ICS
- Professor Shuang Zhao Aims to Transform Physical Acquisition Pipelines
- The Verge: "Gamergate Comes to the Classroom" (Bo Ruberg quoted)
- Daily Pilot: "Column: With artificial intelligence on the rise, humans should reconsider the way we think about our own" (Pierre Baldi interviewed)
- Informatics Ph.D. Student Jazette Johnson Receives Community-Based Research Fellowship
- Inc.: "You Could Be Your Own Biggest Interruption. Here's How to Stop and Find Your Focus" (Gloria Mark cited)
- Statistics Professors Shahbaba and Minin Help Develop Framework to Investigate Complex Biological Systems
- SI News: "Why North America is the premier destination for graduate computer science studies"
- Hal Stern Appointed Vice Provost for Academic Planning
- Professor Nan Awarded NSF Grant to Improve Statistical Inference
- The New Yorker: "Was E-Mail a Mistake?" (Gloria Mark quoted)
July 2019
- UCI News: "Building a better bot" (CS students mentioned)
- Faculty Spotlight: Amelia Regan’s Drive to Transform Transportation
- Renewed Funding Lets Hal Stern Continue Research of Early-Life Adversity, Brain Development with the UCI Conte Center
- UCI researchers’ deep learning algorithm solves Rubik’s Cube faster than any human
- UCI News: "UCI researchers’ deep learning algorithm solves Rubik’s Cube faster than any human"
- Pierre Baldi Publishes Paper in Nature Machine Intelligence
- Gillian Hayes Appointed Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division
- The Atlantic: "The Slackification of the American Home " (Melissa Mazmanian quoted)
- UCI News: "Outdated gaming equipment gets new life"
- Wired: "Reddit’s ‘Manosphere’ and the Challenge of Quantifying Hate" (Katherine Lo quoted)
- Pierre Baldi and Peter Sadawski Receive AIJ Paper Award
- Wired: "Waze Data Can Help Predict Car Crashes and Cut Response Time" (Sean Young quoted)
- Los Angeles Times: "UCI computer scientists make art come alive at the Venice Biennale"
- Alumni Spotlight: ICS Hall of Fame Inductee Sandy Smart-Ashburn Embraces Life-Long Learning
June 2019
- Capitalizing on the Capstone Experience
- NPR: "The Brighter Side Of Screen Time" (Mimi Ito mentioned)
- CNN: "Slack is ruining my life and I love it" (Gloria Mark quoted)
- Professor Baldi Co-Authors Paper on Advancing High-Throughput Drug Screening
- UCI Beall Applied Innovation News: "UCI Innovators Recognized at Second Annual Innovator Awards Ceremony" (Tony Givargis nominated)
- UCI Sweeps IEEE GameSIG 2019
- UCI Computer Scientists Breathe Life Into Venice Biennale Installations
- CNET: "Amazon's voice assistant will get smarter. These new Alexa Prize teams will help" (UCI team advised by Sameer Singh)
- EdSurge: "It’s Game Over for the Institute of Play. But Its Legacy Lives On." (Katie Salen Tekinbaş quoted)
- The Journal: "Institute of Play Closing Down, Handing Work over to UC Irvine"
- UCI School of Education: "Interdisciplinary Team Presents at UROP: Supporting the Education of Homebound Children Through Cognitive Robotics"
May 2019
- Bonnie Nardi Recognized with Lifetime Achievement Award
- ICS Welcomes Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth as a Distinguished Speaker June 7
- Conference Honors Statistics Professor Emeritus Wesley Johnson
- ABC Life: "Why getting better with money starts with habits not spreadsheets" (Sean Young quoted)
- Mark Baldwin Receives UCI Engage Great Partner Award
- UCI School of Medicine: "New Study Shows Crowdsourced Traffic Data Could Save Lives"
- ICS Students Win Best Web App at HackSC
- ICS Students Win Best Web App at HackSC
- ICS Students Win Best Web App at HackSC
- Univision: "Rosalva Gallardo, a Peruvian who stands out working for Google in Silicon Valley" (video interview)
- Alumni Spotlight: ICS ‘Trailblazer’ Jim Hobbs ’73 Helps Pave the Way for Others
- ICS Alumnus Nithin Jilla’s Nonprofit Inspires Students to Love STEM
- Active Learning Transforms Ubiquitous Computing Course
- Professor Guindani Named Fellow of the American Statistical Association
- SHRM: "Why Are Companies Ending Remote Work?" (Judith and Gary Olson quoted)
- Marketplace: "Remote offices find creative workarounds as more Americans stay home" (Judith Olson quoted)
- Upcoming Symposium on Cutting-Edge AI & Biomedicine Research
- UCI Esports: "Esports Lab Spotlight: Craig G. Anderson"
- UCI’s Game Design Program Ranked Third in State, 11th in Nation by ACR
- Unlocking Data for Smart Firefighting
- Center for Statistical Consulting: A One-Stop Shop for Data Analysis
- ICS Finalist in UCI Stock Market Competition Two Years in a Row
- ICS Finalist in UCI Stock Market Competition Two Years in a Row
April 2019
- Professor Irani Receives Distinguished Service Award
- Parenting OC: "Autism and Fanfiction" (Rebecca Black quoted)
- ICS Partnership with Allen Institute for AI Advances Machine Learning
- All-Female Capstone Team Delivers for Emergency Preparedness Program
- Women In the World: "Raising safe, digitally savvy kids in the ‘screen age’ requires a strategy" (Mimi Ito quoted)
- Cyber@UCI: Club’s Growing Cybersecurity Community Develops Third-Place Team
- Cyber@UCI: Club’s Growing Cybersecurity Community Develops Third-Place Team
- Statistics Ph.D. Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- The UCI Podcast: Interview with Bonnie Ruberg
- Charless Fowlkes Named Chancellor’s Fellow
- Alumni Spotlight: Gerald Bortis Helps Transform Healthcare
- Singh, Thornton Recognized for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- Professor Irani’s Behind-the-Scenes Support of Coding Courses for Girls
- Merage School of Business: "UCI Stock Market Competition Makes Financial Literacy a Top Priority for Undergraduate Students" (Informatics student YuHeng Li second place winner)
- Student Success on Display at Winter 2019 Informatics Project Showcase
March 2019
- Grants for New Informatics Professors Support Health and Children’s Literacy
- Ardalan Amiri Sani’s NSF Grant Aims to Secure Mobile Devices
- Ph.D. Student Samantha McDonald Helps Us Better Connect with Congress
- AI@UCI: Exploring the World of Artificial Intelligence
- Medium: "What We Mean When We Say #AbolishBigData2019" by Roderic Crooks
- New Data Science Scholarship to Promote Social Good
- UCI News Applied Innovation: "AVIAA Spreads Wings into Irvine and Beyond" (Gillian Hayes quoted)
- Variety: "The Problem of Toxicity in Esports (and Two Solutions)" (Informatics graduate student Amanda Cullen cited)
- Securing Self-Driving and Smart Transportation
- ICS Researchers Win NDSS Poster Award
- UCI Esports: "Esports Lab Spotlight: Maria J. Anderson-Coto" (Informatics graduate student)
- Academics and Activists Unite to Tackle Digital Discrimination
- Senior Spotlight: UCI Sets Up Dante Chakravorti for Continued Success in Computer Science and Volleyball After Graduation
- Alumni Spotlight: Erin Bradner Designs Technology to Amplify Our Creativity
- Professor Scott Jordan Testifies at California Assembly’s Privacy Hearing
- Pierre Baldi’s Transformative AI Leadership
February 2019
- Seeing Video Games in a New Light
- VentureBeat: "How the ESA’s acting CEO views video game addiction" (Constance Steinkuehler mentioned)
- Graduate Student Spotlight: Hillary Abraham Driven to Explore Future Transportation
- Professor Shen’s Collaborations Exemplify the Significance of Statistics
- UCI Applied Innovation: "AVIAA Merges Fleets, Acquires Convolus"
- Alumni Spotlight: Behind the Scenes Look at Jim Berney’s Hollywood Success Reveals Admiration for Academia
- ABC: "Australian citizens are unwitting 'combatants' in cyberspace, Defence boss says"
- Forbes: "The 100 Leading Pioneers Of AI Drug Development" (Pierre Baldi named)
- CPRI Receives $1.4M Gift for Securing the Seams of the Internet of Everything
- ICS Honors Four Alumni at 2019 Hall of Fame Celebration
- Informatics Professor Gillian Hayes Receives Social Impact Award
- EdSurge: "Playing Games Can Build 21st-Century Skills. Research Explains How." (Katie Salen Tekinbaş and Kurt Squire quoted)
- Roberta Ellen Lamb Memorial Endowed Fellowship Recipient Investigates Online Democratic Discourse
- Professor Bowker’s Research as a CAS Fellow Tackles Timely Issues
- The New York Times: "Our Brains Aren’t Designed to Handle the Trump Era" (Gloria Mark cited)
- UCI News: "Improved land management project co-led by UCI gets $4.6 million in state funding" (Padhraic Smyth research group mentioned)
- UCI’s Record-Breaking Global Game Jam
- Tess and Karen Tanenbaum Lead Career Workshop for Junior High Students
January 2019
- Marketplace: "Your car is not self-driving, no matter how much it seems like it is" (Ph.D. student Hillary Abraham quoted)
- Trio of ICS Professors Preview Tech Trends for 2019
- Trio of ICS Professors Preview Tech Trends for 2019
- Trio of ICS Professors Preview Tech Trends for 2019
- Motherboard: "Social Media Is Broken, But You Should Still Report Hate" (Kat Lo quoted)
- UCI News: "UCI-led study finds Harry Potter fan fiction challenges cultural stereotypes of autism" (Rebecca Black quoted)
- Computer Science Lecturer Shannon Alfaro Named DTEI Faculty Fellow
- Professor Ruberg Co-Edits Groundbreaking Game Studies Issue on ‘Queerness and Video Games’
- The Guardian: "Video games can turn university graduates into better employees" (Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire cited)
- ESPN Esports College League of Legends Week 1 rankings
- Informatics Department Receives $1.1M to Study Socially Responsible AI
- BBC: "Why an off-the-grid hour at work is so crucial" (Gloria Mark quoted)
- Rare Opportunity to Learn from Legendary Researcher Jeffrey D. Ullman
- Connected Learning Alliance: "Close the Digital Generation Gap, Unlock the Power of Online Affinity Networks, and Fuel Learning" by Mimi Ito
- Informatics Ph.D. Student Saumya Gupta Receives ACM-W Scholarship for TEI 19
- Hispanic Engineer: "UC Irvine hopes to find how young people are using digital technology" (Mimi Ito quoted)
- Statistics Ph.D. Alumnus Andrew Holbrook ’18 Named a Finalist for the Savage Award
- New Faculty Spotlight: Professor Sang-Woo Jun Eager to Collaborate with UCI Students
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December 2018
- Mobile Banking Prototype Exemplifies Value of Capstone Classes for Students and Businesses
- Entrepreneur: "Why Entrepreneurs Are Constantly Distracted (And 6 Ways To Fight Back)" (Gloria Mark quoted)
- The Conversation: "With a limited on-screen presence, autistic characters have emerged in another medium: fan fiction" by Rebecca Black and Jonathan Alexander
- Forbes: "Brain-Based Tips For Sharpening Your Focus" (Gloria Mark cited)
- IGN: "Dragon Age 4: Who Is the Dread Wolf?" by Informatics graduate student Kat Brewster
- Founders of Coding Club for Kids in Homeless Shelters Grateful for UCI’s Support
- Founders of Coding Club for Kids in Homeless Shelters Grateful for UCI’s Support
- CPRI Hosts Workforce 2020 Panel Discussion and Networking Reception for ICS 90 Students
- CPRI Hosts Workforce 2020 Panel Discussion and Networking Reception for ICS 90 Students
- The Conversation: "For many women, tracking their fertility can be an emotional whirlwind" by Mayara Costa Figueiredo and Yunan Chen
- Professor Crista Lopes Named IEEE Fellow
- The Conversation: "Why Tumblr’s ban on adult content is bad for LGBTQ youth" (postdoctoral fellow Alexander Cho quoted)
- All Five UCI Teams Place in Top 25 at SoCal Regionals of the 2018 ACM ICPC
- SXSW: "Constance Steinkuehler, Mark Deppe, Michael Prindiville, and Peter Levin Announced as Featured Speakers for SXSW Gaming 2019"
- Jersey City Dinner Draws 35 UCI Alumni, Faculty and Students at CSCW 18
- New Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jennifer Wong-Ma Shares Her Passion for Teaching
- Games at Play Arcade — A Night of Alternative Game Design
November 2018
- Education Week: "No, Fortnite Isn't Rotting Kids' Brains. It May Even Be Good for Them" by Kurt Squire
- Professor Franz Honored with Humboldt Research Award
- Ph.D. Students Du, Meza Soria Take Second Place at AMIA Student Design Challenge
- Multidepartmental Collaboration on Detecting Code Clones Leads to Distinguished Paper Award
- Multidepartmental Collaboration on Detecting Code Clones Leads to Distinguished Paper Award
- Multidepartmental Collaboration on Detecting Code Clones Leads to Distinguished Paper Award
- Huffington Post: "On Maid-Rating Apps India's Entitled Baba-Log Hit New Low" (PhD candidate Noopur Raval quoted)
- Professor Black Discusses Technology Behind UCI’s $14.7M Grant to Expand Literacy Outreach
- UCI News: "Paddling toward a more accessible future" (Informatics Ph.D. student Mark Baldwin profiled)
- Informatics Researchers and Neurology Professor Recognized for Paper on Stroke Vlogs
- UCI Feels Like Home for Navy Veteran and Computer Science Major Timothy Tomas
- Professor Levorato’s DARPA Project Aims to Strengthen Autonomous Drone Systems
- Kai Zheng Elected ACMI Fellow for Contributions to Biomedical Informatics
- Professor Branham Highlights “Interdependence” for Assistive Technology in Award-Winning Paper
October 2018
- Buzzfeed: "Multitasking Is Bad, And You Really Shouldn't Do It" (Gloria Mark quoted)
- UCI News: "UCI receives $14.7 million grant to expand its successful literacy outreach project" (Rebecca Black co-investigator)
- Los Angeles Times: "UCI student helps design canoe that allows the blind to paddle solo" (Informatics Ph.D. student Mark Baldwin profiled)
- The Fight Against Global Warming: Where Does Technology Fit In?
- Adjunct Lecturer Paul Lumsdaine Prepares Informatics Students for Real-World Challenges
- TECHNOLOchicas video spotlight on ICS alumna Rosalva Gallardo, Ph.D. '12
- Senior Spotlight: James Purpura Goes from Watching ‘Moneyball’ to Earning Data Science Degree
- Multidisciplinary Collaborators Awarded $2.1M to Improve Maternal Care in Underserved Communities
- Knowable Magazine: "When courtroom science goes wrong — and how stats can fix it" (Hal Stern featured)
- EdSurge: "Anthropologist Mimi Ito: Good Intentions Don’t Always Mean Equitable Outcomes in Edtech"
- Olivia Bernstein Named Outstanding TA in Statistics
- Hina Arora, Tong Zou Share 2018 Newcomb Graduate Award in Statistics
- UCI News: "Making a donor-powered difference" (Gillian Hayes profiled)
- Distinguished Professor Alex Nicolau Elected into Academia Europaea
- UCI Assumes Leadership Role with First Annual Esports Conference
- Informatics Ph.D. Candidate Daniel Gardner Selected as ARCS Scholar
- Professor Lopes Advances Collaborative Research with $1.1M Grant
- Professor Tsudik’s Upcoming Security-Focused Keynote Talks
September 2018
- Informatics Professors Weave Sustainability into the Fabric of Computing with Comm. ACM Paper
- Informatics Students Partner with Team Kids to Help Children Change the World
- The Fight Over Net Neutrality Stretches from California to Washington, D.C.
- Stew Sutton Enhances Student Learning with Donated Software Licenses
- Professor Guindani Named Incoming Editor-in-Chief of Bayesian Analysis
- Forbes: "Don't Trust Artificial Intelligence? Time To Open The AI 'Black Box'" (Sameer Singh quoted)
- UCI News: "UCI joins in launch of new NSF-funded data science and climate initiative"
- Professor Gillen Receives $1.2M Grant to Study Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trial Study Partners
- Professor Baldi Publishes Paper in Gastroenterology on Automating Colonoscopies
- Quartz: "There are two ways to multitask, but only one works" (Gloria Mark cited)
- Educating the Next Generation about Cybersecurity
- Tsudik to Deliver Keynote at ESORICS 2018
August 2018
- Professors Burtsev and Tsudik Awarded $1M to Secure Large-Scale Scientific Cloud Computing
- Professor Harris Presents Tool to Detect Social Engineering Attacks at Black Hat USA
- Data Science Student Raj Parekh Receives Distinguished Anteater Award
- Professor Singh Awarded Two NSF Grants to Advance Machine Learning
- Professor Zhao Receives NSF Grant to Develop Tools for Improved Virtual Reality
- Georgia Tech: "Oh, the Places They'll Go: Professor Gregory Abowd Looks Back on 30 Ph.D. Graduates" (Gillian Hayes mentioned)
- Professors Malek and Garcia Aim to Transform Software Architecture Research with $1.66M Grant
- "Channel Influencer Spotlight: BitTitan’s Geeman Yip On Why the End of the World Isn’t So Bad" (CS alumnus Geeman Yip profiled)
- A Video Game that Teaches Empathy and Strengthens Neural Connectivity
- Wired: "If a group text gets read and no one reacts, did it happen?" (Paul Dourish quoted)
- SE-Radio: "Episode 333: Marian Petre and André van der Hoek on Software Design"
- UC IT Blog: "Telepresence Learning with Robots at UC Irvine" (Judy Olson quoted)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison: "A video game can change the brain, may improve empathy in middle schoolers" (Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire mentioned)
- Nardi’s Paper on Instant Messaging Receives Lasting Impact Award
- El Comercio: "I want Peru be a technological power" (Profile on Rosalva Gallardo, Ph.D. '12)
- Stern Co-Directs Award-Winning CSAFE Team
- Discover: "Connected Learning Summit" (Constance Steinkuehler mentioned)
- Informatics Department Welcomes World-Renowned Scholar Marian Petre
- Forbes: "How SMEs Can Catch The AI Wave" (Gloria Mark mentioned)
July 2018
- Alumni Spotlight: From Blockbuster Movies to Enriching U, Howard Gersh Inspires Future Digital Artists
- Daily Bruin: "Comic-Con panel discusses Afrofuturism in ‘Black Panther,’ Octavia Butler’s works" (Roderic Crooks mentioned)
- Professor Harris Awarded NSF Grant to Detect Social Engineering Attacks
- Wired: "Google Glass is back–now with artificial intelligence" (Gillian Hayes quoted)
- Bustle: "Why The Best Video Games Are The Ones That Make Men Cry" (Bonnie Ruberg quoted)
- Ph.D. Student Jihyun Park Wins Best Paper Award at International Data Mining Conference
- Platypus: “A Ludicrous Relationship? A Conversation between Anthropology and Game Studies” (Co-authored by Informatics Ph.D. Students)
- Inside Higher Ed: "Melting Away Myths" (Kurt Squire quoted)
- Medium – Towards Data Science: "Introducing a simple and intuitive Python API for UCI machine learning repository"
- SportTechie: "Esports Curriculum Meets High School Children Where They Play" (Constance Steinkuehler quoted)
- ‘Sankofa’ Receives Bronze Medal at 2018 International Serious Play Awards
June 2018
- ICS Researchers Introduce Thermanator, Revealing a New Threat to Using Keyboards to Enter Passwords and Other Sensitive Information
- Gene Tsudik, ICS Exchange Students on International Team Studying Information Leakage
- Gene Tsudik, Two Computer Science Ph.D. Students Develop Novel De-Authentication Prototype
- Los Angeles Times: "A machine taught itself to solve Rubik’s Cube without human help, UC Irvine researchers say"
- ICS Researchers Advance Machine Learning with Self-Taught Algorithm that Solves the Rubik’s Cube
- UCI Applied Innovation Currents: "Putting the ‘A’ in STEAM: Professor Aditi Majumder uses Computer Science to Amplify Art"
- MIT Technology Review: "A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself" (PhD researcher Stephen McAleer quoted)
- NVIDIA Developer: "AI Helps Accelerate the Drug Development Process" (Pierre Baldi research cited)
- U.S. News & World Report: "Schools Use Esports as a Learning Platform" by Constance Steinkuehler
- Digital Media Anthropologist Alexander Cho Receives President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
- ICS Staff, Faculty Honored at Inaugural Faculty & Staff Awards Celebration
- The Atlantic: "The Most Honest Out-of-Office Message" (Gloria Mark cited)
- ICS Students Christian Morte and Ayesha Syed Honored with Chancellor’s Award of Distinction
- ICS Students Christian Morte and Ayesha Syed Honored with Chancellor’s Award of Distinction
- Professor Jain Receives IEEE Award for Article on Social-Sensed Multimedia Computing
- Professor Vazirani Receives $500K in NSF Funding for New Research into Algorithms
- ICS Staff, Faculty Honored at Inaugural Faculty & Staff Awards Celebration
- Informatics Ph.D. Student Mustafa Hussain Named i3 Teaching Fellow
- Verge: "Game developer pranks player after he threatens to shoot up studio" (Katherine Lo quoted)
- Future Developers Explore Prosocial Gaming at Empathy Game Jam
- Ingenuity 2018 Recognizes Influential Individuals and Celebrates Student Innovation
- Professor Franz Receives UCI Applied Innovation’s Inaugural Innovator of the Year Award
- UCI’s Game Design Program Ranked Third in State, 17th in Nation by ACR
- Aviation Week: "AVIAA Guarantees Savings — or Money Back" (Gillian Hayes mentioned)
May 2018
- UCI Continues Its Winning Streak at IEEE GameSIG with Sky Farm
- SoCal Social Analytics Workshop Serves as Catalyst for Multidisciplinary Collaborations
- Education Week: "Gamers Are the New High School Athletes: The Rise of Esports" (Constance Steinkuehler quoted)
- Retirement Reception for Informatics Professor David G. Kay Reveals Reach of His ‘Teaching Tree’
- Professor Ruberg Honored for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research
- Game Developers — This Is Your Week!
- Senior Spotlight: Graduating Computer Science Major Howard Chen Leaves A Promising Student Security Culture at UCI
- Quartz: "Are people who don't use Facebook more productive?" (Gloria Mark cited)
- Professor Goodrich Receives $474,000 to Study Geometric Realizations and Evolving Data
- ICS Anteater Athletes Are Driven to Succeed
- ICS Anteater Athletes Are Driven to Succeed
- Workshop to Celebrate Vijay Vazirani’s Contributions to Theoretical Computer Science
- Register Now to “Find the Kind” at Empathy Game Jam
- UCI’s First Esports Conference Aims to Catalyze the Field
- Eppstein Publishes New Book, Forbidden Patterns in Discrete Geometry, for Mathematicians and Computer Scientists
- Professor Majumder’s Tech Startup Shines at Segerstrom Center’s Brilliance Event
- Inven Global: "Constance Steinkuehler, Professor Of Education At UCI, Reveals Plans To Invite Korean Players And Coaches To The U.S."
- Student Spotlight: UCI Helps Jose Vargas Realize Anything Is Possible
- BOLD: "Lifelong learning: Moving between the academe and the business world" by Gillian Hayes
- CMTC Video Interview: Aditi Majumder Discussing Computer Vision
- Alumni Spotlights: ICS Grads Help AutoGravity Revolutionize Digital Car Buying
- Alumni Spotlights: ICS Grads Help AutoGravity Revolutionize Digital Car Buying
- Senior Spotlight: Santiago Martin Powers through UCI and Secures Job at Google
April 2018
- Professor Crista Lopes Recognized for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- VRcade Exposes Students to Virtual Reality Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
- VRcade Exposes Students to Virtual Reality Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
- Maricela Cruz Receives Latino Excellence Award for ICS
- Forbes: "Four Ways To Maximize Workplace Productivity By Checking Your Technology Use" (Gloria Mark research cited)
- Goodrich Elected to Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters
- Luminaries from the Game Industry Take Over Classes as Guest Lecturers
- Students Present Blueprints for New AR/VR Theater Experiences
- Senior Spotlight: Matthew Ardeleanu Exemplifies Perseverance on Road to Success
- Professor Baldi Awarded NIH Grant to Develop Informatics Tools to Analyze Circadian Rhythms
- Researchers from the Department of Informatics Explore Sustainable Food Systems
- Professor Gloria Mark on Team Receiving $8 Million in IARPA Funding to Study Workplace Performance
- Senior Spotlight: Celine Deleon ’18 Is a Source of Inspiration for Girls Studying Technology
- The Atlantic: "The Bargain at the Heart of the Kid Internet" (Mimi Ito quoted)
- Professor Nan Receives $1.2 Million Grant to Develop New Statistical Methods
- Informatics Ph.D. Candidate Reyhaneh Jabbarvand Named Google Ph.D. Fellow
- Geoffrey C. Bowker Recognized as Donald Bren Professor
- ICS Students Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
- ICS Students Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
- Intel Parallel Universe Magazine: "Computer Vision for the Masses: Bringing Computer Vision to the Open Web Platform" by CS Professors Alexandru Nicolau and Alexander Veidenbaum, and Ph.D. Candidate Sajjad Taheri
- Senior Spotlight: Kevin Ke’s Journey from Guangzhou to UCI to Amazon
- Winter 2018 Informatics Student Project Showcase
- Dutt, Kurdahi Awarded NSF Grant for ‘Information Processing Factory’ Computer Chips
- Dutt appointed as Distinguished Visiting Professor of CSE at IIT Bombay
- Medium: "The Future of Love: Robot Sex and AI Relationships" (Bonnie Nardi quoted)
- 2018 Carl Cotman Young Investigator Award Recipient Is a Rising Star
March 2018
- UCI Earns Top Ranking for CIS Program from College Factual
- Student Spotlight: Rachel Weber ’19 Views UCI as a Land of Opportunities
- Christian Science Monitor: "Here comes the esports revolution – are video gamers the Tom Bradys of tomorrow?" (Constance Steinkuehler quoted)
- CMSWire: "New Consortium Looks to Humanize the Digital Workplace" (Gloria Mark named to consortium)
- UCI’s graduate programs shine in U.S. News & World Report rankings
- UCI’s graduate programs shine in U.S. News & World Report rankings
- Inc.: "Distractions Are Costing Companies Millions. Here's Why 66 Percent of Workers Won't Talk About It" (Gloria Mark research cited)
- Diverse Innovation on Display at 2018 Capstone Game Showcase
- Rolling Stone: "How Developers Can Reduce Toxicity in Online Communities" (Ph.D. student Katherine Lo quoted)
- The Center for Statistical Consulting’s New Director Envisions a One-Stop Shop for Data Analysis Needs
- Connected Camps: "Can Minecraft Help Raise a Generation of Good Gamers?" by Katie Salen
- UCI News: "UCI, TU Munich and TU Braunschweig launch joint technology development project" (Nikil Dutt quoted)
- Alumni Spotlight: Google’s Rosalva Gallardo ’12 Advances Tech Education in Peru
- New VR Development Club Aims to Innovate, Explore
- Greater Than Code: "Radical Design with Marian Petre and André van der Hoek"
- SportTechie: "Orange County High School Esports League Combines Education, Gaming" (Constance Steinkuehler quoted)
- Five Thirty Eight: "How To Break Your Phone Addiction" (Gloria Mark research cited)
- Professor Steinkuehler Helps 'Future-Proof' California’s Game Industry
- Professor Chen Receives Grant for Study that Encourages Older Adults to Exercise
- Women in Information and Computer Sciences (WICS) Organization Mentors and Supports Future Tech Professionals
- Women in Information and Computer Sciences (WICS) Organization Mentors and Supports Future Tech Professionals
- Shahbaba Receives $1.7 Million Neural Data Analysis Grant
- Shahbaba Receives $1.7 Million Grant to Develop Novel Models for Neural Data Analysis
- Wired: "What would a ‘healthy’ Twitter even look like?" (researcher Katherine Lo quoted)
- The New York Times Magazine: "How to Choose an Online Handle" (alumna Nikki Crenshaw quoted)
- California Department of Education: "State Superintendent Torlakson Announces Appointments to Statewide Panel for Computer Science Education" (Debra Richardson named)
February 2018
- Communications of the ACM: "Responsible Research with Crowds: Pay Crowdworkers at Least Minimum Wage" (Authored by Professor Bill Tomlinson and ICS alumni Six Silberman, Joel Ross, Lilly Irani and Andrew Zaldivar)
- Strava Map Exposes Weaknesses in Understanding Complexities of Pervasive Data
- Strava Map Exposes Weaknesses in Understanding Complexities of Pervasive Data
- Alumni Spotlight: Barbara Branstetter Kew ’75 Talks Healthcare, Tech Leadership and Diversity by Design
- Novel AR/VR Theater Class Builds Foundation for New Traditions in Theater
- Minin Co-Edits Special Section on Infectious Diseases in Statistical Science
- Grant Supports Study of RallyForRivers Campaign and Social Media’s Role in Raising Awareness
- Grant Helps Professor Ruberg Explore Diversity and Harassment in Video Game Livestreaming
- UCI’s Judith Olson, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Los Angeles Times: “UC Irvine academics come to the defense of players after WHO proposes 'gaming disorder' as a thing”
- Julius Baer Vision Magazine: “The Familiar Faces of Interfaces” (Gillian Hayes quoted)
- Global Game Jam 2018 Expands Reach
- Brython Davis Fellowship Recipient Marie Tsaasan Aims to Serve Humanity
January 2018
- "'Leonardo Da Vinci': Walter Isaacson goes back to Renaissance for his latest biography of a genius" by Michael Goodrich
- Reactions to “Gaming Disorder” Classification
- Symmetry: "Neural networks for neutrinos" (Pierre Baldi quoted)
- Lakeland Times: "Autism numbers spike: The latest call to action" (Stern quoted)
- Register Now for Global Game Jam 2018
- Utts Discusses "Statistics for Good Governance" at International Conference in Sri Lanka
- Informatics Ph.D. Candidate Oliver Haimson Receives James Harvey Scholar Award
- 2018 ICS Projects and Predictions
- 2018 ICS Projects and Predictions
- 2018 ICS Projects and Predictions
- Levorato Collaborates on $3.7 Million Grant for Electricity Distribution Cybersecurity
- Informatics Professors Promote Inclusiveness
- ICS Professors Presenting at AICRE Events for Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend
- ICS Professors Presenting at AICRE Events for Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend
- Professor Xu Awarded 2018 AITO Junior Dahl-Nygaard Prize
- Tsudik Awarded Visiting Professorship at TU Dresden
- IoT Hackathon Apps Coming Soon
- Alumni Spotlight: Vince Steckler '80 on Solving Problems, Giving Back, and Embracing Failure