Twenty years after participating in the Human Genome Project, Ph.D. alum Terry Furey (Computer Science, 2002) is researching genetic variations in bodies’ reactions to toxicants, and the molecular basis of Crohn’s disease.
All seventeen of UC Santa Cruz’s graduate engineering programs have chosen to temporarily waive the GRE test requirement for 2021 applicants. Ten programs have permanently dropped the test.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Phokion Kolaitis and former Professor Wang-Chiew Tan have been awarded the 2020 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation for their ground-breaking work laying the logical foundations for data exchange.
As a Ph.D. student in the Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz alumna Pigi Kouki focused on recommendation systems. Today she works on these systems as a Data Scientist at RelationalAI.
Sixteen student teams competed for $6000 in prize money in the 2020 UCSC IDEA Hub Pitch Contest. All three finalists were from the Baskin School of Engineering and represented projects for social good.
Applied mathematics and statistics M.S. alumna Julissa Martinez describes how statistics allows her to see how the world is changing- especially in the time of Covid-19.
Lynne Sheehan, network administrator for the Baskin School of Engineering and avid supporter of Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz, is retiring after 33 years of service to UC Santa Cruz.
A sea otter genome browser — featuring the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s beloved Gidget – is now available to the public.
Computational Media Ph.D student Oleksandra Keehl will use the award to help develop a mobile game designed to help Japanese language learners master kanji, Japanese logographic script.
As a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz, Shereen Oraby was on the cutting edge of research in Natural Language Processing. Now she is working on developing machine learning models for one of the world’s best-known virtual assistants.
Incoming AD prepares to take on role as “change agent” to enhance education for engineering students.
