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February 21, 2025
Beehive sensors offer hope in saving honeybee colonies
A UC Riverside computer science team has developed a sensor-based technology that could revolutionize commercial beekeeping by reducing colony losses and lowering labor costs.

June 24, 2024
Digital Protector
Annie Du has turned her passion for fighting off hackers into a successful career as a cybersecurity expert and Netflix engineer

June 24, 2024
Machine-Based Learning
Highlander Combat Robotics — a project of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers — provides students the opportunity to build and battle their bots against each other, an fun experience that also serves as a “a gateway to practical learning"

February 21, 2024
Method identified to double computer processing speeds
UCR computer scientists identify method identified to double computer processing speed using existing hardware

January 09, 2024
UCR outs security flaw in AI query models
UC Riverside computer scientists have identified a security flaw in vision language artificial intelligence (AI) models that can allow bad actors to use AI for nefarious purposes, such as obtaining instructions on how to make bomb.

December 17, 2023
Engineering student professional organizations soar to success
Financial support from October’s annual BCOE Match Challenge helped drum up donations for student professional organizations, totaling the most donors in the challenge’s six-year history.

September 05, 2023
$1.2 million grant awarded for robotics software development
A $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow UCR to develop better software architecture for robotics and other autonomous systems.

August 08, 2023
Virtual reality headsets are vulnerable to hackers
Headset hardware and virtual keyboard interfaces that immerse us into expanding worlds of virtual reality also create new opportunities for hackers, UCR computer scientists find studies to be presented at a national cyber security conference.

July 27, 2023
Engineering students receiving a total of $46,000 in scholarships were encouraged to connect outside the classroom
Our scholars got dollars. Nearly 40 future engineers received financial support this past academic year in the form of scholarship awards ranging largely between $1,000 and $2,500. While this financial support assists Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) students in covering some of the costs of their education, the scholarship-application process is meant to do something more: encourage them to make critical connections with the campus community beyond the classroom. In reviewing scholarship applicants, committees review student engagement. Examples of such engagement

July 19, 2023
Professor Ozkan wins prized Selcuk Yasar Award in Turkey
Mihrimah Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, is recognized in Turkey for her work in addressing climate change by receiving the Selcuk Yasar Award.

June 29, 2023
Artificial Intelligence to reshape deep science learning
Artificial Intelligence, beyond the hype and hysteria in headlines today, plays a growing role in daily life and business – with uses ranging from predictive text to Netflix recommendations to the detection of bank fraud.
Much of that progress is thanks to researchers on the cutting edge of complex scientific exploration.
And there is more to come.

May 26, 2022
BCOE’s first ever Family Weekend brings together engineering families to experience life as an engineering student
Parents and families of engineering students at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) experienced a slice of college life at the first ever Family Weekend on Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14. Through MakeRspace activities, classroom lectures, tours of BCOE, and more, families experienced firsthand their student’s campus life and engaged fellow parents, faculty and staff. “We extend a warm thank you to the families who visited BCOE in support of their student, and a thank you to our BCOE Parent Advisory Council, faculty and staff who made this possible,” said Dean

March 29, 2022
Five UC Riverside engineering programs move up in 2023 U.S. News Rankings
Among both public and private universities, Chemical and Environmental Engineering moved up four spots to No. 48, Electrical and Computer Engineering moved up three spots to No. 63, Mechanical Engineering moved up two spots to No. 75, Materials Science and Engineering moved up two spots to No. 66, and Computer Science and Engineering and Computer Engineering moved up one spot to No. 50.

April 03, 2019
This computer scientist beats hackers at their own game
Fatemah Alharbi discovered a serious security flaw, earning thanks from Apple

March 18, 2019
Seeing through food and drug fakes and frauds
“Chronoprints” can identify a sample from a video taken as it reacts to disturbance

March 04, 2019
Magnonic devices can replace electronics without much noise
Magnonic devices of the future could use low power to avoid performance losses

February 22, 2019
Machines whisper our secrets
Spies can learn what a machine is making from the sounds it makes

February 07, 2019
Does the presence of colleges and hospitals increase home prices?
The institution’s size and the ZIP code’s population can have positive and negative effects

January 07, 2019
How to block eavesdropping on wireless communications
Confusing channel state information offers a first line of defense in full-duplex wireless

November 05, 2018
New attacks on graphics processors endanger user privacy
Hackers can use the graphics processing unit to spy on web activity, steal passwords, and break into cloud-based applications

September 20, 2018
New security flaw discovered in Wi-Fi routers
Hackers can use your wireless router to extract information, and there’s not much you can do to stop them

August 23, 2018
Genetically engineered virus spins gold into beads
The discovery could make production of some electronic components cheaper, easier, and faster

July 30, 2018
Fake news can’t fool new algorithm
An algorithm that can already detect fake news stories with 75 percent accuracy gets a boost from Snap Research

July 26, 2018
New Spectre cyberthreat evades patches
New speculative execution attack launches from a computer’s return stack buffer, not the branch predictor
July 24, 2018
Pest-monitoring device enters into field trials
The technology invented by engineers at UC Riverside could reduce pesticide use and crop loss

June 28, 2018
New data science major promotes diversity in high-tech
Program will build new educational pathways in computing or technology for students, especially women, who otherwise would not study these subjects in college
June 15, 2018
Microchips can permanently link patients with clinical samples
Project to embed patient data directly in biological samples receives Gates Foundation funding

June 12, 2018
A faster way to fail
Electromigration at normal operating temperatures causes integrated circuits to fail in hours instead of years, allowing researchers to assess how durable they are