Baskin Engineering student team places second at National Cybersecurity Competition
Students from Computer Science and Engineering placed second out of 120 university teams from around the country.
Computer Science and Engineering
Rishita Wairagade: Undergraduate Student
Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
“Baskin Engineering does a great job of providing research opportunities for all of its engineering students.”
Baskin Engineering welcomes 13 new faculty members
Each department is gaining at least one new faculty member this academic year, furthering the school’s effort to expand and diversify course offerings and research opportunities.
Baskin Engineering celebrates outstanding postdocs during National Postdoc Appreciation Week
Baskin Engineering recognizes exceptional postdoctoral scholars and their contributions to university research and more.
Computer scientists awarded $340K NSF grant to support research on quantum networks
The three-year project aims to develop new quantum network models and protocols to enhance computing security.
Engineering professor lands $700K grant to develop advanced sensing technology for vehicles
The three-and-a-half-year project is part of a long-term research initiative to increase the safety of autonomous vehicles.
Two Baskin Engineering graduate students awarded inaugural Fellowship for Anti-Racism Research
The new fellowship is designed to advance anti-racism research in technology and engineering, and adds to Baskin Engineering’s expanding portfolio of efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.
Meghna Banerjee: Alumna
Degree Program: Computer Science B.S.
Graduate Institution: Attending Harvard fall 2021, M.E. Computational Science and Engineering
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: San Jose, CA
“I’m really grateful for all the resources I had at Baskin Engineering and the faculty who helped me along the way.”
Jessica Xie: Alumna
Degree Program: Technology and Information Management (TIM), B.S.
Graduate Institution: University of Edinburgh Business School, Scotland
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Rosemead, CA
“The TIM degree program encompassed everything that I was interested in because you get to learn about computer engineering, computer science, and business and information systems.”
Riadul Islam: Alumnus
Degree Program: Computer Engineering, Ph.D.
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Engineering
Hometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh
“If you look at the power consumption of the microprocessor or the CPU, a big chunk of power comes in by the clock network, so I proposed a new paradigm of clocking that utilizes current rather than voltage.”
Michael Dove: Alumnus
Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science (1985)
“The universal thing that students need to know going into industry is how companies really operate.”
Sabrina Tsui: Alumna
Degree Program: Computer Science and Engineering
Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Cupertino, CA
“I sat in on some of the seminars in Professor Derrell Long’s group in the Storage Systems Research Center. They have a seminar every week, and I came and listened to all the grad students talk about how they were progressing on their research projects, and that made me want to pursue graduate school.”