Assistant Professor receives NSF CAREER Award for AI reliability research
Dr. Qian Zhang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside, studies the software layers where those failures occur. Her work recently earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, one of the agency’s highest honors for early-career faculty.
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Data-Driven, Future-Ready
UCR Engineering marks the five-year anniversary of an undergraduate degree program in data science it launched with the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences to draw women and other students who aren’t commonly represented in STEM.
Revved Up on Robots
Brandon Marcus's robotics and artificial intelligence research and recent co-authorship of a major paper accepted to the 2025 CASE conference mark a few of his successes as the second BCOE student to graduate with a bachelor's degree in robotics.
Fostering Future Faculty
Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the country found the support and guidance through a new FAME program geared to recruit and mentor future faculty mentors.
Empowering Engineers
A group of BCOE undergraduates who attended the 2025 Silicon Valley Women in Engineering conference said the event inspired and motivated them with its focus on successful women in engineering.
Seed of Inspiration
Computer Science and Engineering associate professor Amey Bhangale imparts cutting-edge knowledge to his students to be a “seed of inspiration” to pursue research.
Guarding the Grapevine
Computer Science and Engineering assistant professor Silas Richelson's passion for computing and communication allows him to advance research and share that knowledge with his students.
Ready to Launch
The IGNITE Student Professional Conference provided students with inspiration, learning, and networking during a professional development event that featured breakout sessions, an alumni panel, a career exhibition, and mock interviews.
Data Driven
Vagelis Papalexakis, an associate professor at UC Riverside's Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, has been named the Ross Family Term Chair in Computer Science.
UC Riverside Launches RAISE Institute to Advance AI Research and Education
Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering faculty are at the forefront of AI research and education, with professors professors Amit Roy-Chowdhury and Vassilis Tsotras leading the interdisciplinary Riverside Artificial Intelligence Research (RAISE) Institute.