Strolling through the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building at UC Irvine on May 25, 2023, local industry leaders saw more than 40 projects on display — including innovative medical solutions, education technology for improved learning outcomes, and projects that could one day spark new startups. These capstone projects, developed over 20 weeks, showcased the knowledge and skills of students in UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS).
[Read more…]The Washington Post: “Is the ‘internet apocalypse’ nigh? Breaking down the solar-storm science.” (Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi interviewed)
Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, a computer science [assistant] professor at University of California, Irvine whose paper “Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse” has played a role in popularizing the term, started thinking about internet resilience when the coronavirus began to spread, and she realized how unprepared we were for a pandemic. Research on widespread internet failure was scant. “We’ve never experienced one of the extreme case events, and we don’t know how our infrastructure would respond to it,” Jyothi said. “Our failure testing doesn’t even include such scenarios.”
Read the full story on The Washington Post.
2023 ICS Commencement: Centering Humanity
On June 20, 2023, UC Irvine held its final gradution ceremony as students from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) started their procession into the Bren Events Center for the ICS Commencement Ceremony. “This is the last but certainly not least of the 11 ceremonies,” said Dean Marios C. Papaefthymiou in his welcoming remarks to the crowd of students, families and friends, and esteemed faculty.
[Read more…]UC Irvine to Compete at World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest
UC Irvine, after earning a bronze medal at the North American Championship of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), now qualifies for the World Finals in Egypt this November. ICPC, the oldest and largest programming contest, describes the competition as follows: “Each year, an elite group of the brightest collegiate problem solvers on the planet comes together to compete [at] the ICPC World Finals.” This year, that elite group will include three students from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS):
- computer science freshman Elijah Huang,
- computer science junior Jerry Li, and
- computer science and math (double major) sophomore Thomas Neill.
Assistant Professor of Teaching Michael Shindler, who helps organize the various UCI teams competing in ICPC — including this award-winning UCI Map team — will join the students in Egypt.
[Read more…]Cheng Zhang Receives Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
On June 11, 2023, ACM SIGGRAPH announced the recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, recognizing Cheng Zhang “for a dissertation presenting significant advances in physics-based rendering and providing both practical tools and theoretical foundations for future differentiable rendering algorithms.”
Zhang, advised by Professor Shuang Zhao, earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) in June 2022 and is now a research scientist at Meta Reality Labs.
[Read more…]Breaking Barriers: VenusHacks 2023 Empowers Women in Computing
VenusHacks 2023, UCI’s largest women-centric hackathon, took place from May 26-28 and concluded with resounding success. Organized in collaboration with Women in Computer Sciences and Hack at UCI, the hackathon brought together more than 200 participants from over 20 schools and 20 majors. With a mission to empower underrepresented groups and make computing more inclusive and diverse, VenusHacks 2023 provided a platform for students from all experience levels to engage in innovative projects.
[Read more…]Faculty and Staff Honored at 2023 ICS Awards Celebration
On June 6, 2023, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) recognized faculty and staff at its annual ICS Awards Celebration. 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 accomplishments.
[Read more…]Stanislaw Jarecki Named Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
Associate Professor of Computer Science Stanislaw Jarecki of UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) has been named a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).
[Read more…]Muhammad Twaha Ibrahim Awarded Link Foundation Fellowship
Computer science Ph.D. candidate Muhammad Twaha Ibrahim has been awarded the Link Foundation Fellowship for Modeling, Simulation and Training. “This fellowship is granted to only six or seven students nationwide each year,” says Tony Givargis, chair of the Department of Computer Science, “making it a remarkable achievement.”
[Read more…]UCI News: “Bringing emotional intelligence to artificial intelligence”
UCI alumni siblings Karishma and Pratyush Muthukumar ’22 to present at UN’s AI for Good 2023 global summit.
Karishma and Pratyush Muthukumar play to each other’s strengths. Over the years, the siblings, UCI alumni, have tag-teamed many projects together, employing their respective expertise in cognitive science and computer science. Their current project: developing an empathetic chatbot for use in the medical field.
“There’s a lot of buzz around ChatGPT and similar language models that are coming out around this time, but we wanted to gear a chatbot specifically designed to consider empathy and compassion in responses,” says Pratyush Muthukumar, the younger of the pair. “Patients suffering from depression, anxiety or other mental health challenges might be able to talk with a chatbot that’s empathetic.”
He and his sister both graduated from UCI in 2022, Pratyush with a degree in computer science and Karishma in cognitive science.
She was invited by the United Nations to be a speaker at the AI for Good global summit in 2020, but it was delayed several years due to the pandemic. When organizers reached out again in 2022, she suggested a joint talk with her brother on their recent research together at UCI. Finally, the two Southern California natives will be making their way to Europe in July for a presentation on emotion-driven AI at the summit, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Read the full story on UCI News.
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