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Dr. Sean Peisert and Prof. Matt Bishop have been awarded a 3-year, $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to work on research in intrusion detection on massively parallel supercomputers and ultra high-speed networks. This work will be performed in conjunction with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the International Computer Sciences Institute, and will investigate the unique security properties and usage patterns of high performance systems and networks, develop formal models of those, and leverage the models to increase security capabilities.

Hank Childs, architect of VisIt—one of the most popular frameworks for data analysis and scientific visualization—has joined the Computer Science Department as a Professional Researcher. He will be working in the Department's Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization, working on new large scale visualization and analysis methods for scientific problems. Childs, who holds a half-time appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, comes to UC Davis after nearly a decade at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was a member of the original VisIt development team. More information about Hank can be viewed at http://vis.lbl.gov/~hrchilds

Prof. Phil Rogaway has been awarded an $850K grant from NSF for his project titled Reimagining Cryptography by Identifying its Culturally-Rooted Assumptions. "Like all scientific communities, the cryptographic community has a very particular disciplinary culture," said Dr. Rogaway. "This culture profoundly shapes the set of problems that tend to get noticed and the style of solutions that subsequently emerge. In this work we describe a variety of cryptographic problems that were identified by challenging culturally-rooted assumptions about what cryptography is and how it should be done."

Chris Bird and Prof. Prem Devanbu, along with colleagues from Microsoft Research, have published a paper on quality effects of distributed development in the current issue of CACM Research Highlights, The paper is introduced by an accompanying short research perspective article by Prof. Jim Herbsleb of CMU. Research highlights is a feature of the new CACM, which has been "completely revamped along the lines of Science or Nature", and is "devoted to the most important research results published in CS in recent years" (according to Profs. David Patterson and Stuart Russell, co-chairs, CACM Research Highlights).

Earl Barr Awarded I3P Fellowship

Earl Barr, a graduating PhD student in Prof. Pandey's Lab, has been awarded a prestigious I3P Post-Doctoral fellowship to support his proposed work on computer security. Upon graduation, he will be conducting the proposed research in Prof. Su's group.

Michael NeffProfessor Michael Neff has received the NSF CAREER award for his project titled "Generative Models for Character Animation and Gesture in the New Age of Art and Electronic Interaction." This research will develop new models of human movement to be used in character animation applications such as movies, games, and online worlds.

"Collapse: Suddenly Falling Down" wins award

The production Collapse (suddenly falling down) received the 2009 Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design. The team sharing this award includes Michael Neff, Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Technocultural Studies, Oliver Kreylos, a PhD graduate of CS, along with members from Geology and Theatre and Dance. You can see clips of the production at: http://www.youtube.com/user/CollapseUCD

Professor Davidson Awarded Naval Research Grant

The Office of Naval Research has funded the basic research of Professor Ian Davidson for $355,000 over 2.5 years. The research will fund Professor Davidson and two graduate students exploring the design of autonomous data mining algorithm and the analysis of performance bounds. ONR aims to apply these techniques to problems of predicting adversarial behavior.

Prof. Mukherjee Outstanding Senior Faculty Award

Prof. Biswanath Mukherjee is the recipient of the College of Engineering Dean's Annual Award for Outstanding Senior Career Faculty. The Annual Faculty Awards Program honors the achievements of outstanding faculty members in the College of Engineering.

Globecom 2007 Best Paper Award

Networks Lab PhD student Marwan Batayneh, his research advisor Child Family Professor Biswanath Mukherjee, and their research collaborators Dr. Andreas Kirstädter, Dr. Dominic A. Schupke, and Dr. Marco Hoffman from Siemens, Germany, have won the Best Paper Award for their paper “Lightpath-Level Protection versus Connection-Level Protection for Carrier-Grade Ethernet in a Mixed-Line-Rate Telecom Network” in the Optical Networking Symposium at the annual IEEE Globecom 2007 Conference, Washington DC, November 2007

Nelson Max Wins Coons Award

Prof. Nelson Max has won the Steven A. Coons Award from ACM SIGGRAPH. This award is given every two years for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, and earlier recipients include other giants in the field. [ more (PDF) ]

Best Paper at Graphics Hardware 2007

CS grad student Shubhabrata Sengupta was first author on the Best Paper at Graphics Hardware 2007, along with Mark Harris, Yao Zhang, and his advisor John D. Owens. This is a competitive conference in a hot area. Downloand the paper here

2007-08 Department Citations

The 2007-2008 departmental citation recipients are Kari Okamoto (CSE) and Andrey Goder (CS). They will be presented with their citation on Thursday, June 5th, at 3 pm in 1065 Kemper.

Technology, Security of Electronic Voting Machines Can Be Compromised

Professor Matt Bishop led teams that bypassed controls on electronic voting machines and demonstrated that the technology and security of all three systems could be compromised. This was part of the California Secretary of State's top-to-bottom review of electronic voting machines. Professor David Wagner of UC Berkeley was co-PI on the project.

Professor Hao Chen wins NSF CAREER Award

Professor Hao Chen won the National Science Foundation CAREER award for his proposal to secure broadband cellular data networks. Professor Chen endeavors to understand the inherent, unique vulnerabilities in cellular data networks and mobile devices, and to develop technologies for defending against emerging threats. Click here for the award abstract.

Two Multi-Million Dollar MURI Awards For Computer Science

The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded two multi-million dollar grants to two research teams consisting of computer science faculty through the Multi-disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program. UC Davis is the lead institution in one award, and a member institution of the other one.

The team for the first proposal, titled " ARSENAL: A cross layer ARchitecture for SEcure resilieNt tacticAL mobile ad hoc networks," includes Professors Prasant Mohapatra (PI), Karl Levitt, and Felix Wu. UC Davis is the lead institution for this project, and the subcontracting partners are UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, BYU, University of Utah, University of Pittsburg, and Penn State.

The second team, whose proposal is titled “Helix: A Self-Regenerative Architecture for the Incorruptible Enterprise,” consists of Professors Hao Chen, Karl Levitt, Jeff Rowe, Zhendong Su, and Felix Wu. University of Virginia is the lead institution for this project, and the subcontracting partners are UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, and University of New Mexico.

The awards are among 36 announced by the DoD totaling $19.4 million in fiscal year 2007 and $207 million over five years.

The MURI program supports multi-disciplinary research in areas of DoD relevance related to science and engineering. A MURI effort usually involves a team of researchers with expertise in a variety of disciplines in order to help accelerate research progress and convert research results to application.

Competition for the 2007 MURI awards was very intense. The Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) received a total of 129 proposals, and only 36 were selected for funding, based on a merit review by panels of experts in the science and engineering fields. A complete list of projects selected for fiscal 2007 funding can be viewed at: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/MAR2007/d20070307muri.pdf

Best Graduate Researcher Award

Jedidiah Crandall has been selected as the recipient of the Best Graduate Researcher Award. Jed's area of interest is systems and computer security, and his research has focused on protecting the Internet infrastructure from Internet worms. The Minos and DACODA projects (published at MICRO and CCS, respectively) allowed Jed and colleagues to capture and analyze many real Internet worms and provide the first detailed, empirical study of how much polymorphism and metamorphism are available to worms in the exploit phase. Jed has also explored some other interesting aspects of security and privacy, including behavior-based malware analysis (specifically a technique called temporal search proposed in a recent ASPLOS paper), probabilistically enforcing an information flow security property called non-interference for a full system via repeated deterministic replays, and modeling and understanding the implementation and application of keyword-based Internet censorship such as the "Great Firewall of China."

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Grants Awarded

CEOP/COMET: Profs. Gertz (PI) and Ludäscher from the CS department and an interdisciplinary team of researchers from UC Davis, including Profs. Schladow (Tahoe Environmental Research Center), Ustin (UC Davis Center of Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment), and Williams (Bodega Marine Laboratory), have received a three year $2,100,000 grant under the NSF program Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototype Systems to Address Cross-Cutting Needs.

CEOP/KEPLER: A team of investigators from UC Santa Barbara (Matt Jones, Mark Schildhauer), UC Davis (Prof. Ludäscher), UC San Diego (Ilkay Altintas, Chaitan Baru), UC Los Angeles (Prof. Deborah Estrin), and OPeNDAP Inc. (Peter Cornillon) have been awarded a four year $2,700,000 grant for the Management and Analysis of Environmental Observatory Data using the Kepler Scientific Workflow System. [ more ]

CyberTrust Team - NSF grant on malware defense awarded

Profs. Zhendong Su and Felix Wu along with Prof. Fred Chong (UCSB) have been awarded a $750,000 NSF grant on malware defense, titled "A Vertical Systems Framework for Effective Defense against Memory-based Attacks." [ more ]

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Cell Phone Attacks

Prof. Hao Chen and his students Denys Ma and Radmilo Racic have discovered that malicious junk mail could leave your cell phone with a dead battery. Learn how you can protect yourself. (Also see COE story)

Capital Public Radio interview
SacBee article 10.23.06

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UC Davis Team Wins Award to Study Open-Source Systems

Profs. Devanbu (PI) and Filkov from the CS Dept and an interdisciplinary team of UC Davis researchers, have received a three-year, $750,000 NSF grant to study the long-term effects of design in open source software. The other members of the team are Prof. Raissa D’Souza (ME, Physics of networks), and Profs. Anand Swaminathan and Greta Hsu (GSB, Social and Organizational Science). The team brings together expertise in analyzing, modeling, and design of software, biological systems, and social networks.

The goal of this project is to formulate novel, testable hypotheses relevant to software engineering outcomes, employ the best available data gathering, analysis, visualization and machine learning techniques to extract data from open source repositories to evaluate these hypotheses. An improved understanding the social processes underlying open-source systems could help improve software engineering practice; this could well lead to faster development of cheaper, better, software systems.

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Prof. Bishop Receives CISSE Award

The Colloquium for Information System Security Education (CISSE) recently awarded Matt Bishop the Colloquium Academia Award for his research and pedagogical work in computer information security (such as collecting seminal research papers that were hard to find before CISSE made them available, and his textbook). The award also honors Prof. Bishop for his "demonstrated research leadership in the analysis of vulnerabilities in computer systems, including modeling them, building tools to detect vulnerabilities, and eliminating or ameliorating them." More information about the CISSE can be found at http://www.cisse.info/background.htm.

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Yufeng Wu Win RECOMB Best Paper Award

Yufeng Wu won the Best Paper authored by a student or students at the 2007 RECOMB conference. Check out: http://www.recomb2007.com/html/recomb%202007%20awards.html. RECOMB is the top algorithmic and mathematical conference in computational biology and student submissions compete with all submissions for acceptance.

2007 Award for Best Doctoral Dissteration.

The College of Enginerring recently announced the winner of the 2007 Zuhair A. Munir Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation. Dr. Chao Gui was selected for his research entitled “Routing Performance and Power Conservation in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks” under the mentorship of Professor Prasant Mohapatra. The College Awards Committee, chaired by Professor Tim Ginn, made the selection from seven extremely competitive submissions. The award will be presented to Dr. Gui during the College of Engineering Awards Ceremony which will be held on Thursday, June 7, in Room 1065 Kemper Hall. A reception will immediately follow in Room 1003.

2006-07 Department Awards

The undergraduate students below were selected by faculty to receive a 2006-2007 Departmental Citation for Outstanding Performance. All three will be completing their degree in June.

  • Steven Crites
  • Chao-Chih Chen
  • Jeffrey Yuen

In addition, the Department Best Dissertation Award recipient is Aaron Lefohn, and the Best Researcher Award goes to Jed Crandall. Eddy Chan is the winner of the PC-Doctor Programming Scholarship.

Citation for Prof. Norm Matloff

Prof. Norm Matloff has recieved the 2006 Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. Professor Matloff has been a leader in curricular development in the CS department. He is the original and sole developer of four of our undergraduate courses and one graduate course. He is also the co-developer of several other courses. As Chair of the Undergraduate Affairs Committee for the past six years, he has spearheaded the development of a new and innovative sequence of courses for non-majors. Professor Matloff holds his students to the very highest standards and, in return, receives their highest praise.

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2005-06 Best Dissertation Award

Chao Gui is the recipient of the Best Dissertation Award from the Department for the year 2005-06. His primary area of research was multi-hop wireless networks. His dissertation title is, "Power Conservation and Performance Enhancement of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks." Chao's publications have appeared in top conferences such as Infocom, Mobicom, and Mobihoc. Professor Mohapatra is Chao's advisor.

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Prof. Mukherjee Honored

Prof. Biswanath Mukherjee had been appointed to the Child Family Professorship in the College of Engineering. This endowed professorship was established to foster academic excellence and innovative research in "the interrelationship of engineering and entrepreneurship." The Provost's office writes, "Professor Mukherjee is an eminent and prolific scholar in the field of computer networks who would be an ideal holder of the Child Family Professorship. He is not only an outstanding scholar and teacher, but also has key industry connections that carry his academic research to practical application. His work thus promotes the vision that led to the creation of this endowment."

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Patrice Koehl Selected Sloan Research Fellow

Professor Patrice Koehl was recently informed that he has been selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. This is an extraordinarily competitive award, involving nominations for most of the very best scientists from the US and Canada. These awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. Currently a total of 116 fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. In addition, the Sloan Research Fellowship now carries with it an unrestricted grant of $45,000 for the 2-year period.

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Zhendong Su Receives 2005-2006 NSF CAREER Award

Zhendong Su, assistant professor in the department of computer science, has received the 2005-2006 National Science Foundation Career Award, based on his proposal for an analysis framework that would improve reliability and security of national information system infrastructures. Database and web applications contain critical faults that undermine their security and reliability. Many of these errors occur because of complex, dynamic interactions with outside environments. No tool or technique currently exists to prevent the introduction of errors, leaving applications susceptible to serious failure and security threats. Zhendong Su's proposal - "Reliability and Security of Database and Web Applications" - describes a novel systematic analysis framework that would address these database and web application vulnerabilities and have positive impact on both industry and academia.

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Best Graduate Researcher Award

Van K. Nguyen has been announced as the recepient of the Best Graduate Researcher Award for this academic year. Professor Martel is Van's advisor. The award includes a stipend of $1000 for the student. Congratulations!

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Best Paper at VRIPHYS'05

"Kinetic Sweep and Prune for Collision Detection" by PhD student Daniel Coming and Professor Oliver Staadt has won the best paper award at VRIPHYS'05. A PDF copy of the paper can be downloaded here.

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Honorable Mention: Evolutionary Morphing

"Evolutionary Morphing: Statistical Interpolation of Ancestral Morphology Along an Evolutionary Tree" by Nina Amenta and David Wiley, University of California, Davis; Eric Delson, City University of New York; F. James Rohlf, State University of New York, Stony Brook; and colleagues has won an honorable mention in Science Magazine's Visualization 2005 contest. To see the movie clip go to Science Magazine (click on the Slideshow, then Non-interactive Media category) or get the PDF version.

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ACM-IPCP Programming Contest

The ACM-ICPC Regional competition was held on Saturday, and one of our teams, Davis Blue, did very well placing in the top 10 (we were #10) out of more than 70 schools in the Pacific Northwest region. Only Stanford's and Berkeley's teams placed ahead of us at our site in Stockton, which had around 30 teams competing, while overall only those two and University of Washington, of the US schools competing, did better than our team. The top two spots were taken by Canadian Univerities and they will represent the region at the World Finals in April. The team's contestants were: Andrey Goder (CS Undergraduate), Jeff Stuart (CS Grad), Stuart Davis Herring (Applied Sci, Grad). Our other team, Davis Gold, also worked very hard during the competition, but unfortunately did not manage to solve any problems.

Professor Amenta Honored

CS Professor Nina Amenta has been selected to be a 2005-06 Chancellor's Fellow and will receive an award of $25,000 to be used in support of her research, teaching and service activities. The Chancellor's Fellows Program is supported in part by funds from the Davis Chancellor's Club and the Annual Fund of the University of California, Davis. The program was established in 2000 to honor the achievements of outstanding faculty memberes early in their careers.

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Professors for the Future

The Professors for the Future program has announced the selection of its 2005-06 class of fellows, including Quinn Hart in CS. Professors for the Future is a year-long competitive fellowship program designed to recognize and develop the leadership skills of outstanding graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who have demonstrated their commitment to professionalism, integrity, and academic service. This unique program, sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies, focuses on the future challenges of graduate education, postdoctoral training, and the academy. For more information, please visit http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/pftf/.

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Computer Science Department Citations and Awards

Best Graduate Researcher Award

Chao Gui is the winner of the first Best Graduate Researcher Award of the Computer Science department. Chao has been working on the quality of service and power conservation issues in multihop wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. "Chao is very innovative as well as hardworking. An elegant mix of theoretical concepts with practical limitations of applications characterizes his research efforts. He is poised to be a very successful researcher in future," said Prof. Mohapatra, his advisor.

Best Dissertation Award

Prof. Eric Wohlstadter, who graduated in 2004 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, has won the first Best Dissertation Award from our department. His advisor, Prof. Devanbu said: "Eric has developed an innovative new programming model for distributed systems, that simplifies the task of developing features such as security which affect more than one part of the system. His work is poised to influence standards for distributed computing, such as CORBA and SOAP. I am delighted that he was selected for this award!"

2004-05 Citations

Based upon the recommendations received, the students below are our 2004-2005 departmental citation recipients:

Dan Alcantara (CS)
Julia Winsor (CS)
Jason Cheung (CSE)

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Best New Journal Honorable Mention

A recent news release from American Association of Publishers, Professional and Scholorly Publishing Division announced the 2004 winners and honorable mentions in 25 areas. In the Best New Journal (in any category), the Honorable Mention was awarded to The IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Prof. Dan Gusfield wrote the proposal to found that journal and was selected as the founding Editor-in-Chief. More information about the journal can be found at www.computer.org/tcbb/.

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Prof. Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award

Prof. Xin Liu has been granted an NSF CAREER award for her proposal "Smart-Radio-Technology-Enabled Opportunistic Spectrum Utilization." Spectrum is among the most expensive natural resource around the world and its demand is skyrocketing due to the fast proliferation of broadband wireless services. On the other hand, preliminary studies indicate the presence of a significant amount of white space, or unused space, in the radio spectrum. Thus, it is spectrum access, instead of true spectrum scarcity, that limits the potential growth of versatile wireless services. This project is motivated by this dilemma -- opportunistic utilization of the white space is studied, which has the great potential to mitigate the spectrum scarcity. The project focuses on modeling and protocol design. Upon the successful completion of the project, we expect to gain a fundamental understanding on the potential of opportunistic spectrum utilization and develop efficient algorithms for spectrum sharing.

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Grad Student Chad Sterling Honored

Prof. Olsson's graduate student Chad Sterling was selected by the Black Engineer of the Year Selection Panel to receive the Student Leadership (Graduate) Award during the 19th Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference. Innovators who demonstrate commitment to engineering expertise, leadership and managerial dash, the winners are also recognized for contributions as role models and mentors, helping to boost the minority presence in the tehcnology enterprise.Winners were chosen from a competitive field by an industry-wide committee in an intensive, week-long selection process. [full story]

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Best Vis2004 Paper

Lok Hwa, Mark Duchaineau, and Ken Joy have just won the best paper award at the Visualization 2004 Conference. The title of their paper is "Adaptive 4-8 Texture Hierarchies." PDF

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DSOM 2004

Prof. Felix Wu is Program Committee Chair for the 15th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2004) which will be held here at UC Davis at the Buehler Alumni Center November 15-17. For more information please visit DSOM 2004.

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Prof. Joy New IDAV Co-Director

Prof. Ken Joy has been appointed co-director of the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV) beginning Sept 1. The IDAV (formerly known as the Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing, CIPIC) focuses on data analysis, visualization, computer graphics, optimization, and electronic imaging. The major aim is the investigation of techniques for the study of large-scale, multi-dimensional data sets. Applications for these techniques include the analysis and visualization of environmental, geophysical, astrophysical, biological, fluid flow, and satellite data. IDAV's mission is the solution of complex data analysis and visualization problems, in a cross-disciplinary environment, working with researchers in academia, national research laboratories, and industry.

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Prof. Devanbu Receives 2004 IBM Faculty Award

Prem Devanbu has received IBM Faculty Award of $40,000 to support his research into self-aware and self-adaptive Middleware. The award letter states: "This award is highly competitive and recognizes the quality of your program and its importance to our industry."

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New Department Chair

Professor Zhaojun Bai accepted the position of Chair of the Department of Computer Science on August 1, 2004.

Professor Bai joined the Department in 1999, after spending nine years at the University of Kentucky. He completed his doctoral study at Fudan University, China. He was a visiting student at University of Maryland at College Park and a postdoctoral researcher at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

He is one of principal developers of LAPACK (SIAM, 3rd edition, 1999), a software library for solving the most common problems in numerical linear algebra. LAPACK is designed to supersede LINPACK and EISPACK. He co-edited Templates for the Solution of Algebra Eigenvalue Problems: A Practical Guide (SIAM, 2002). His current research include synergistic activities in designing and implementing numerical algorithms for emerging computational problems, computing environments and user communities in computational science and engineering, such as structure-preserving dimension reduction techniques for large scale dynamical systems in circuit simulations, linear algebra algorithms for quantum simulations in solid state physics and design and optimization mathematical kernels on IA-64 computer architecture. Professor Bai also holds a joint appointment with the Department of Mathematics.

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Prof. Mohapatra New GGCS Chair

CS is happy to announce that Prasant Mohapatra has been appointed as the new chair of the GGCS. Our (long) nomination process gave Graduate studies two excellent candidates to choose from, and I'm confident that Prasant will do an excellent job. We have a strong program due to the efforts of our great faculty, staff and students, and I'm sure all of you will continue your good efforts to help Prasant as you have helped me.
Chip Martel
(Former GGCS chair)

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Prof. Staadt awarded ACM VRCAI Best Paper Award

The paper "blue-c API: A Multimedia and 3D Video Enhanced Toolkit for Collaborative VR and Telepresence" has won the Best Paper Award at the ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI) 2004 held in Singapore. The paper is available here (http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~staadt/download/p_Nae04.pdf)

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CS Welcomes New Faculty

Hao Chen

joins the department from UC Berkeley. Dr. Chen's research interests focus on significant and difficult problems of computer security and software verification. These two topics relate to each other, in that it is crucial to verify that computer programs do not have bugs that may result in security vulnerabilities. By combining theoretical insights with detailed knowledge of real computer systems, Mr. Chen's work results in practical, usable security verification systems. Mr. Chen is best known for his tool MOPS, which finds security vulnerabilities in C programs.

Dr. Patrice Koehl

joins the department from Computational Structural Biology at Stanford University where he is a Senior Research Associate. Dr. Koehl received his PhD in Biophysics (Molecular Biology and NMR spectroscopy), Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg in 1989. His research program focus on understanding protein structures. He is interested in characterizing their shapes, and uses this information to improve our understanding of their stability (ProShape). He is also interested in characterizing the subset of sequence space compatible with a protein structure: this is an indirect approach to understanding protein sequence evolution (ProDesign). In parallel, he is involved in the development of new algorithms for predicting the structure of a protein, based on its sequence(ProModel). Dr. Koehl will also have a research appointment with the Genome Center.

Dr. Bertram Ludaescher

joins the department from UC San Diego. Dr. Ludaescher is a computer science researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where he leads the Knowledge-Based Information Systems Lab within the Data and Knowledge Systems program. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include knowledge-based information systems, information integration (model-based/semantic mediation) esp. of scientific data, management of semistructured data (XML), database languages (active, deductive, object-oriented), query evaluation, and database theory.

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