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Computer Science and Engineering

Baskin Engineers secure second place in two-part embedded cybersecurity challenge

May 18, 2023May 17, 2023 by Melissa Weckerle
Team UCSC, who placed second in the MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) competition

A group of Baskin Engineering students competed in a global cybersecurity capture the flag competition where teams design and attack embedded systems of their competitors for points.

Categories BE Community News Tags Computer Science and Engineering, Undergraduate Student

An engineer’s engineer: How engineering alumna Jennifer Bevan leverages testing innovation to improve Google products

May 23, 2023May 16, 2023 by Melissa Weckerle
Jennifer Bevan, UCSC alumna

UC Santa Cruz alumna and Google software engineer Jennifer Bevan has spent her post-Baskin Engineering career revolutionizing software engineering testing applications and tools to improve product efficiency and accessibility.

Categories BE Community News Tags Alumni, Computer Science and Engineering

Distinguished Baskin Engineering professor to deliver the 56th annual faculty research lecture

April 26, 2023 by Melissa Weckerle
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, distinguished professor of computer science and engineering

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves will discuss his research in building intelligent information infrastructures at the honorary May 11th event.

Categories BE Community News Tags Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty

CITRIS Foundry’s spring 2023 cohort includes two UC Santa Cruz teams

March 21, 2025April 25, 2023 by CITRIS Communications
CITRIS invention lab

The CITRIS Foundry welcomes seven teams, two from UC Santa Cruz, advancing IT solutions in medical diagnostics, wildfire detection, AI applications and more.

Categories BE Community News Tags Biomolecular Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industry Partnerships

Spring 2023 awards and accolades

June 16, 2023April 21, 2023 by Baskin Engineering Communications
students in Professor Mircea Teoderescu's lab putting working on electronic chips

An ongoing list of Spring 2023 accolades and research awards given to Baskin Engineering faculty, students, and staff.

Categories BE Community News Tags Applied Mathematics, Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Media, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistics

Spotlighting CITRIS’s green-tech research during Earth Month

April 20, 2023April 19, 2023 by CITRIS Communications
A drone hovering over a field

Faculty and students involved in CITRIS’s multicampus programs are developing innovative technology for a greener and more sustainable future.

Categories BE Community News Tags Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Media, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistics, Technology and Information Management

A full circle experience

April 11, 2023April 11, 2023 by Melissa Weckerle
Baskin Engineering Dean’s Council. From left to right: Joe Burton, Chief Executive Officer at Telesign; Laura Bushnell, Partner at King & Spaulding LLP; Michael Hilton, Board of Directors Member at Accolade; Alexander Wolf, Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering; Ahmed Hamdy, MD, Chief Executive Officer at Vincerx Pharma; Brandon Allgood, Chief AI Office at Valo Health; Ed Schulak, Chairman at EdenRoc Sciences (not pictured)

Alumnus and entrepreneur Michael Hilton’s trailblazing tech career has led him back to his alma mater in more ways than one, with both of his companies’ technologies being adopted by the UC system and serving as a member of the Baskin Engineering Dean’s Council.

Categories BE Community News Tags Alumni, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering

Computational media researcher applies new technique to enhance serious game design and learning experience

March 27, 2023March 23, 2023 by Melissa Weckerle

Professor Magy Seif El-Nasr and her GUII lab are using a machine learning technique known as process mining to better visualize and understand how players are navigating and solving problems in games.

Categories BE Community News Tags Computational Media, Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty, Graduate Student

Winter 2023 awards and accolades

April 4, 2023March 17, 2023 by Baskin Engineering Communications
students in Professor Mircea Teoderescu's lab putting working on electronic chips

A roundup of recent accolades and research awards

Categories BE Community News Tags Applied Mathematics, Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Media, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistics

‘Not-So-Slow Slugs’ take on supercomputing

January 24, 2024March 13, 2023 by Melissa Weckerle
From left to right: Kyle Little, Jia Cheng Liu, Mark Forbush, Victor Chen, Alexander Beloiu, Aidan Au-Yeung, Prof. Scott Beamer, and Nilesh Negi.

A group of UC Santa Cruz engineering students—cleverly named the “Not-So-Slow Slugs”—are competing in a national student supercomputing competition.

Categories BE Community News Tags Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate Research, Graduate Student, Undergraduate Research, Undergraduate Student

Baskin Engineers: Creating the future

March 20, 2025March 2, 2023 by Melissa Weckerle
Formula Slug team pose with Sammy the Slug at Baskin Day

National Engineers Week 2023 highlighted the achievements of Baskin Engineering students and faculty over the past 25 years and underscored the importance of socially driven engineering.

Categories BE Community News Tags Applied Mathematics, Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Media, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistics

Computer engineering student selected as inaugural MEP Tech4Good Fellow

January 24, 2024November 28, 2022 by Melissa Weckerle
Katia Avila Pinedo

During the year-long fellowship, Baskin Engineering’s Katia Avila Pinedo will lead student research projects in the Tech4Good Lab, work towards her first research publication, and complete a community-engagement project.

Categories BE Community News Tags 2022, Computational Media, Computer Science and Engineering, Undergraduate Research, Undergraduate Student
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