Ucsd_mics

06/28/2022

TOMORROW! Professor Farinaz Koushanfar will be delivering a keynote sp*ech for 10th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security entitled "Intellectual Property (IP) Protection for Deep Learning and Federated Learning Models"
https://www.ihmmsec.org/cms/keynote-speakers/index.html

07/13/2021

Students thrive in program focused on diversifying undergraduate engineering at UC San Diego! Check out how our own Pamela Cosman has helped.

Among the more than 1,400 undergraduate engineering and computer science students earning bachelor’s degrees from the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering this year, are Xavier Perez, Yoon Jung Choi, and Armando Godoy-Velasquez, who are all members of the first cohor...

06/26/2021

Congratulations to Rose Yu upon receiving the research award from Facebook AI on sample-efficient sequential !

In February 2021, Facebook launched a request for proposals (RFP) on sample-efficient sequential Bayesian decision-making. Today, we’re announcing the winners…

06/24/2021

Multimodal neural recordings with Neuro-FITM uncover diverse patterns of cortical–hippocampal interactions! Duygu Kuzum and team, amazing achievement!! Their paper featured in https://nature.com/neuro/

Nature Neuroscience provides the international neuroscience community with a highly visible forum in which the most exciting developments in all areas of ...

06/22/2021

Tara Javidi, Co-director of MICS, worked in a first ever collaboration between our Agile Centers of Excellence (CMI and MICS) for this wonderful initiative that helped be a leader in COVID-19 prevention!
"If you’re a student or a faculty member who spends any time on the University of California, San Diego campus, you may know a lot more about what’s in your p*e and poop—and that of your colleagues—than you might care to admit."

Wastewater is an untapped resource that public health experts are hoping to exploit as an early warning system for infectious diseases

06/18/2021

Please join us in congratulating Uyen (Cecilia) Mai, student of MICS Professor Siavash Mirarab. She has just been awarded the prestigious "Marye Anne Fox Endowed Fellowship". The Office of the President has allotted five (5) President's Dissertation Year Fellowships UCSD wide! UC President's Dissertation Year Fellowships are to be awarded to students with highly distinguished academic records. Congratulations Uyen! For more about Uyen and Professor Mirarab's group, please follow this link.

06/03/2021

Great to see that UShER (github.com/yatisht/usher) is now a part of PANGOLIN SARS-CoV-2 lineage assigner! UShER was created by a team including our own Professor Yatish Turakhia.
Posted by Rachel Colquhoun: Pangolin v3.0 is now live! https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation . This release includes some pretty big changes!

Ultrafast Sample Placement on Existing Trees. Contribute to yatisht/usher development by creating an account on GitHub.

06/01/2021

UC San Diego Response to Pandemic Recognized with National Award via UC San Diego!

The University of California San Diego has received the 2021 American Council of Education/Fidelity Investments Award for Institutional Transformation for its science-based, real-time approach to maintaining a low infection rate among students, faculty and staff on campus during the pandemic.

05/28/2021

For the first time, Professor Andrew Kahng's lab in collaboration with Qualcomm shows that block-level scaling can be reversed from cell-level scaling in cell height

05/25/2021

Sunjay Cauligi, Craig Disselkoen, Klaus v. Gleissenthall, Dean Tullsen, Deian Stefan, Tamara Rezk, Gilles Barthe

put together a really engaging video as finalists of the Intel Hardware Security Academic Award at IEEESSP ! Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/3Gf1c7ZkEdU

View their paper at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01755

The constant-time discipline is a software-based countermeasure used for protecting high assurance cryptographic implementations against timing side-channel attacks. Constant-time is effective (it protects against many known attacks), rigorous (it can be formalized using program semantics), and amen...

05/20/2021

It gives us great pleasure to share with you the news that Tara Javidi and her students (Sung-En Chiu, Nancy Ronquillo) won the 2021 IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award.

"Active Learning and CSI Acquisition for mmWave Initial Alignment", published in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, addresses the important timely topic of millimeter wave (mmWave) communication with large antenna arrays, particularly the problem of adaptive and sequential optimization of the beam-forming vectors during the initial access phase of communication.

This joint paper award by the two IEEE societies is a very prestigious award that recognizes outstanding papers published in any publication of the IEEE Communications Society or the Information Theory Society within the previous three calendar years. The award recognizes the quality, originality, utility, and timeliness of works that span the interests of both societies.

https://lnkd.in/ghJVcaZ

05/18/2021

Congratulations to Dr. Nicholas Antipa as his paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-020-00403-7 was Top Downloaded Paper in Nature Light Science and Applications.

A three-dimensional (3D) miniature fluorescence microscope that is smaller, weighs less, and achieves better resolution over larger volumes than current devices could see use in a range of applications in systems biology. Miniature fluorescence microscopes are a standard tool in systems biology, but...