On June 7, 2022, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) resumed its annual ICS Awards Celebration luncheon, paused during the pandemic, as faculty and staff spent an afternoon reconnecting and socializing. Dean Marios Papaefthymiou welcomed new staff, announced the recipient of the Jim McKenzie Staff Leadership Award, presented the Dean’s Faculty Awards, and recognized a variety of faculty members for recent honors and accomplishments.
[Read more…]Alumni Spotlight: Ludovico Verniani ’21 Rewards Adventure With Quadra App
Do you love traveling and exploring new places? Do you love immersing yourself in nature by mountaineering and surfing? Ludovico Verniani does too, so much so that he created an app called Quadra to reward and encourage exploration.
Verniani graduated from UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) in 2021 with a B.S. in computer science, and he’s been furthering his passion for programming and technology in recent months by building Quadra. Quadra is a newly launched decentralized app that employs blockchain technology, including web3 and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), to get people out and about.
[Read more…]UCI Celebration of Teaching Honors Three ICS Faculty Members
On April 21, 2022, UCI’s Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) recognized faculty, instructors and teaching assistants at its annual Celebration of Teaching event. This year, three faculty members from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) were recognized:
- Stacy Branham received the Digital Accessibility Innovator Award;
- Jennifer Wong-Ma was selected as a Dean’s Honoree for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching; and
- Roderic Crooks received an Inclusive Excellence Teaching Award.
The ZotBins Team Continues to Grow, Supporting UCI’s Move to Zero Waste
It has been five years since UCI hosted its first Internet of Things (IoT) Hackathon, organized through the TIPPERS (Testbed for IoT-based Privacy-Preserving PERvasive Spaces) project, a smart campus initiative originally funded by DARPA. It was there that four undergraduate students came up with the idea of ZotBins, a smart waste bin system that collects data to help make waste management more efficient. “The aim of the project was to create a tool to help with UCI’s zero waste initiatives,” says ZotBins co-founder Owen Yang, who graduated from UCI in 2020 and is now a software test engineer at Mainspring Energy. The project persists to this day, with new members applying their skills in support of technology-based zero waste management.
[Read more…]Hack at UCI Hosts Hybrid HackUCI 2022
Hack at UCI hosted its annual HackUCI hackathon, the largest collegiate hackathon in Orange County, in a hybrid format on Feb. 25-27. With more than 300 students in attendance from over 10 different schools, HackUCI 2022 proved to be a hit once again and generated projects ranging from artificial intelligence models to fitness applications.
Hacks were judged based on the technology used to build the project, the quality of the project and the purpose of the project. Here are the winning hacks from HackUCI 2022:
[Read more…]Women’s History Month: Resources for Empowering Women in Tech
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) has pulled together a list of resources for empowering women in technology, including on-campus groups, nationwide organizations and books that focus on women in STEM. We also highlight current leaders in tech and introduce you to some faculty members leading the way in expanding ICS education.
[Read more…]Student Spotlight: Computer Science and Music Double Major Joseph Wong Finds Harmony at UCI
The realms of the liberal arts and sciences are often thought of as being at odds with one another, but the truth is that we need and use both disciplines every day. Take it from Joseph Wong, a fourth-year UCI student studying computer science and violin performance.
“I’m originally from the Bay Area, and I went to a STEM-focused high school. I took two programming classes in high school (an Intro to Java class and AP [Computer Science A]), and I really enjoyed both of those courses,” says Wong, who was admitted to UCI as a computer science major.
[Read more…]Alumni Spotlight: Anthony D. Mays Is Opening Doors for the Next Generation of Tech Talent
The short BuzzFeed documentary “My Unlikely Path to Becoming the 1% at Google” opens with Anthony Mays lamenting that “fear is the chief export of Compton.” Mays, who moved to Compton at age 4 and spent time in foster care before a couple he knew took in him and his two brothers, views Compton as a “rose bush of beauty and pain.” He talks of struggle but also resilience, and while many of his peers felt that “sports, rap music or drugs” were their only options, Mays exemplified a different path.
[Read more…]Student Spotlight: CS Major Alex Meng Makes an Impact as a Resident Advisor
If you think STEM majors are awkward and geeky, just wait until you hear the stories that Arroyo Vista resident advisor and fifth-year computer science major Alex Meng has to tell about her residents who love filmography and knitting.
“My residents are great — they’re really lively people,” says Meng. “It’s interesting to see how one major connects people even though they are different in so many ways. Seeing that spectrum of people is the best part [of being a resident advisor].”
[Read more…]Black History Month: Sharing Resources to Expand Diversity in Tech
Last year, in honor of Black History Month, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) highlighted pioneers in science and technology (see Part I and Part II of the post). This year, we’ve pulled together a list of resources, including on-campus groups here at UCI. We also list some nationwide organizations and books that focus on diversity and race in technology, as well as spotlight some Black leaders in computer science and engineering, both on and off campus.
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