UCI’s Anastasia Shuba won the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July. Her manuscript, “NoMoAds: Effective & Efficient Cross-App Mobile Ad-Blocking,” was selected based on “scientific quality and expected impact on the field.” The paper describes a technology to prevent pop-up advertisements from […]
Since water is increasingly scarce in arid East Africa, the region’s scientists and engineers have an ongoing need to know about the latest satellite precipitation data and information systems. Experts from UCI’s Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing traveled to Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, in July to host workshops for government meteorologists and researchers from […]
Temperature increases during dry periods outpace average climate warming
Building will foster collaborative research in engineering, physical sciences and computing
Scholarship program will support 190 transfer students in advanced manufacturing
Four faculty members in UCI’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering have earned Faculty Early Career Development awards from the National Science Foundation. This year’s winners are Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, assistant professor of electrical engineering & computer science; Yoonjin Won, assistant professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering; Kristen Davis, assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering and Earth […]
UCI engineers find that innovative material facilitates effective on-chip cooling
Based on fictional dinosaurs and squid, technology could protect soldiers and structures
Scientists calculate ‘speed limit’ for pumping pollutant to hungry algae, bacteria
Initiative will focus on creation of ‘information processing factory’ computer chips