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Senior Spotlight: Tennis Player and CS Major Matthew Sah Serves Up Aces On and Off the Court

As a freshman in high school, Matthew Sah could already envision himself thriving at UCI. That’s why he didn’t hesitate to accept his offer to become an Anteater when he was recruited to play for the UCI Men’s Tennis team the summer before his senior year.

“I really liked the campus, the location and I knew that the school had strong academics in a lot of areas,” says Sah, who is studying computer science. “Some of my favorite parts about going to UCI are the people, academics, being able to live in Newport with my friends and the food.”

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CPO Magazine: “A Legal View of New NIST Quantum-Resistant Algorithms” by Bryan Cunningham

How to lose your company in a data breach:

  • Step 1: Suffer a data breach (which almost all companies have or will);
  • Step 2:  Get sued by plaintiff’s lawyers waiting to pounce or, worse, an Attorney General or regulator;
  • Step 3:  Be found not to have met the applicable “standard of care;”
  • Step 4:  Pay up, and possibly lose your business.

“Standard of Care?”, you say. What’s that and why should I care? And where does NIST fit in?

“Standard of Care” is legalese for the minimum an organization must do to have acted “reasonably” in a lawsuit. In most data breach cases, if you are found not to have acted reasonably, e.g., by not employing sufficiently strong encryption, you likely will have to pay economic damages, sometimes reaching bet-the-company territory. Damages and penalties in a cyber breach case likely will reach $1 billion this decade.

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Senior Spotlight: Jose Cisneros Builds Impressive Resume with Trio of Internships

Jose Cisneros

As computer science major Jose Cisneros enters his senior year, he does so with more than a year’s worth of industry experience under his belt and three full-time return offers in hand. His three software engineering internships — at Microsoft, Snap Inc. and Cisco Meraki — have provided a wealth of real-world knowledge, complementing the technical skills gained as a student in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS). He has developed features for web and iOS applications and networking hardware, written requirement specifications, and helped launch new products.

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Cutting-Edge Work in Topological Network Alignment by Wayne Hayes and Students

Computer Science Professor Wayne Hayes of UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) has co-authored a paper with Siyue Wang, who graduated from ICS in 2019, and Giles R.S. Atkinson, a recent graduate of the University of Bristol, on their cutting-edge work in topological network alignment. Published July 20, 2022 in the Nature Partner Journal Systems Biology and Applications, their paper, “SANA: Cross-Species Prediction of Gene Ontology GO Annotations Via Topological Network Alignment,” presents the first-ever demonstration that network alignment based on network topology alone can be used to transfer knowledge of protein function across species.

Hayes stresses the significance of this proof of concept. “Nobody has ever actually been able to successfully predict protein function across species using the edges of the network alone.”

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