Every day, Bren School of ICS faculty and students make important research contributions that bring real and positive change to people worldwide. Examine the highlights below to learn more about the life-changing research that happens in the Bren School of ICS.
Ph.D. Alumnus Soriente '10 named Juan de la Cierva Fellow
Claudio Soriente |
Networked Systems alumnus, Claudio Soriente, Ph.D. ’10 has been awarded the Juan de la Cierva Fellowship by the Spanish government. more |
Touching the Future
Ian Harris |
The Ray Project device recognizes and responds to touch and movement to help users more easily interact with technology. more |
Politicalspeak decoded
William Tomlinson |
Presidential candidates and political bloggers typically have a lot to say, but the subtext to their messages isn't always clear. A UCI-developed Web site helps analyze political speeches, blogs. more |
Supporting Fuzzy Search
Chen Li |
Computer Science Professor Chen Li's research team is studying how to make information access easier by supporting fuzzy search, even interactively. more |
Communicating E2E
Ramesh Jain |
Donald Bren Professor of Computer Science Ramesh Jain and his research group are taking an event-centric approach for realizing E2E connection. more |
Second Life as a simulation tool
Crista Lopes |
A local company is designing a futuristic transport system and Crista Lopes, a professor of informatics, is modeling its logic-control layer on virtual world Second Life. more |
In the Mind's Eye
Max Welling |
Professor Max Welling’s research group are using new statistical techniques to learn more about the brain's use of visual object class taxonomies in the recognition of what objects we see. more |
Making Buildings Safer
Chris Davison |
The ResponSphere project has installed multifunction sensor motes throughout the Calit2 building which contain a series sensors and an alert system that activates whenever any of the sensors reaches a pre-determined level. more |
Event Detectives
Padhraic Smyth |
Devices called “people-counters” have been installed near every door of the Calit2 building to track the number of people entering and exiting – information that could prove crucial during an emergency evacuation. more |
A Stroke of Annotation
Ramesh Jain |
Bren Professor Ramesh Jain and his colleagues at the National University of Singapore hope the new framework they created will ease the job of art experts by performing a wide range of annotation of artwork. more |
Dial H for Hackers
Ian Harris |
Associate professor of computer science, Ian Harris, and members of his Systems Test lab are trying to prevent VOIP phones from becoming a hackers next target. more |
Dinosaurs Discovered Online
Robert Nideffer |
Researchers have created Dino Quest, an interactive exhibit that brings to life prehistoric dinosaurs at Orange County’s Discovery Science Center. more |
Start your Engines
Isaac Scherson |
Applying techniques and skills gleaned from their Bren School classes, Team XAR students have constructed an autonomous vehicle capable of navigating a 60-mile urban course in six hours, unassisted, while obeying traffic laws and avoiding obstacles. more |
Humans as Sensors
Sharad Mehrotra |
Project ResCUE has created Evac-Pack, a wearable, wireless, multimodal communications system allowing first responders in emergency evacuations to maintain two-way communication with an operations center. more |
Fish ‘N’ Steps
Silvia Lindtner |
Ph.D. student Silvia Lindtner was part of a team within a Siemens Research lab that developed an interactive computer game, Fish 'N' Steps, which links a player's daily footstep count to the growth and activity of animated fish. more |
Game On
Bonnie Nardi |
Informatics professor Bonnie Nardi is using her real-life intellectual powers to study “the complex social world on the Internet,” as a a player in the popular “World of Warcraft” computer game. more |
Collaborative Creation
Paul Dourish |
Four Bren School students have created an interactive game called STORYmixer that requires 5 players to work together to combine images, text and sound to create a story. more |
CalSWIM
Crista Lopes |
Professor of informatics Crista Lopes and professor of chemical engineering Stanley Grant are developing a web-based watershed information and management tool called the California Sustainable Wetland Information Manager, CalSWIM. more |
House Call
Crista Lopes |
Professor of informatics Crista Lopes and Steven Cramer, professor of neurology, are designing a self-contained communications platform to facilitate in-home monitoring for patients with spinal cord injuries. more |
Licensed to Succeed
Rick Lathrop |
Professors G. Wesley Hatfield and computer science professor Rick Lathrop, have developed a method for making synthetic genes that express proteins in heterologous hosts. more |
Embedded Systems Communication
Sudeep Pasricha |
Computer Science Ph.D. candidate Sudeep Pasricha is looking at the fundamental problems of software modeling, exploration and synthesis of communication architectures within modern, high performance embedded systems. more |
The Computable Plant
Eric Mjolsness |
Computer science professor Eric Mjolsness and his colleague are researching how genetic makeup and the environment interact to shape intricate developmental processes that lead to functional tissues, organs and organisms from undifferentiated plant cells. more |
Understanding Cell Networks
Natasa Przulj |
Computer science professor Natasa Przulj is researching large real-world networks with the emphasis on biological networks. Understanding the inner workings of the cell constitutes the foremost fundamental problem of modern biology. more |
Chaotic Cosmos
Wayne Hayes |
Computer science professor Wayne Hayes is interested in the numerical reliability of simulations of physical systems. more |
Sudoku Algorithms
David Eppstein |
Inspired by a popular Japanese newspaper puzzle, computer science professor David Eppstein has been working on a computer algorithm for finding paths in graphs. more |
In the Zone
Padhraic Smyth |
Professor of computer science Padhraic Smyth and colleagues are developing statistical image analysis and tracking algorithms for analyzing satellite images of large-scale atmospheric disturbances over time. more |
Loud-and-Clear
Gene Tsudik |
Computer science professors Gene Tsudik and Michael Goodrich are working on a Loud-and-Clear (L&C) system to assist in secure pairing of devices that lack any previous association. more |
Assessing Software Design Options
Sushil Bajracharya |
Informatics professor Crista Lopes and graduate student Sushil Bajracharya have been working on a new methodology for assessing design options in building modular software systems. more |
Analyzing software architecture
Lihua Xu |
Informatics professors Debra Richardson and Hadar Ziv with Ph.D. student Lihua Xu are conducting research in the area of analysis and testing of software architectures against stated requirements. more |
Brain Power
Rick Granger |
Computer Science professor Rick Granger, through his work in the Brain Engineering Laboratory, is researching powerful new brain-derived computational systems to apply in military, medical and other industries. more |
Coming together @ the seams
Aditi Majumder |
Bren School assistant professor Aditi Majumder is researching a comprehensive model to elimate seams created by the color variation between displays. more |
Does the crystal ball foresee conflicts?
André van der Hoek |
Graduate student Anita Sarma and Informatics professor André van der Hoek have developed Palantír, a novel configuration management (CM) workspace awareness tool. more |
Ambient displays lighten user's load
Paul Dourish |
Informatics professor Paul Dourish, research associate Johanna Brewer and Ph.D. student Amanda Williams are working on designing ambient displays for the new Calit2 building. more |
Happy anniversary ArchStudio 3
Richard N. Taylor |
Graduate student Eric Dashofy and Informatics professor Richard N. Taylor recently celebrated the third anniversary of ArchStudio 3, an open source software architecture-based development environment. more |
Designing with Privacy in Mind
Alfred Kobsa |
Graduate student Sameer Patil and Informatics professor Alfred Kobsa have been studying the use of Instant Messaging (IM) from the perspective of privacy. more |
AML: An Extensible Language for Aspect-Oriented Programming
Cristina Lopes |
Informatics professor Cristina Lopes and Ph.D. student Trung Chi Ngo have created Aspect Markup Language (AML), a language-independent model for constructing XML-based aspect-oriented programming languages. more |
Statistics and the stars
David van Dyk |
Statistics professor David van Dyk is spearheading a collaborative effort with the California-Harvard Astrostatistics Collaboration to address outstanding inferential problems in high energy astrophysics. more |
The Virtual Raft Project
Bill Tomlinson |
Informatics professor Bill Tomlinson and his Social Code Group have created the Protohuman Project, a creation of communities of believable autonomous characters that inhabit heterogeneous networks of computational devices. more |
API's: Have You Talked to Your Colleague Lately?
David Redmiles |
Informatics professor David Redmiles and Ph.D. student Cleidson de Souza are studying the interplay between software development practices and their effects on collaboration. more |
Eco-Informatics: an Eco-Challenge?
Susan Sim |
Informatics professors Susan Elliott Sim and Bonnie Nardi are studying how ecologists can be helped in integrating results across studies to form global models of climate change. more |
Decentralized is not distributed
Richard N. Taylor |
Informatics professor Richard N. Taylor and Rohit Khare (Ph.D. 2003,ICS) have developed new architectural styles for designing and implementing decentralized software systems. more |
Helping first responders
Sharad Mehrotra |
Computer Science professor Sharad Mehrotra and UCSD collaborator Ramesh Rao, are researching how first responders, as well as key decision makers, share information and communicate during a crisis or disaster. more |
Cards anyone?
Alex Baker |
Graduate student Alex Baker has developed Problems and Programmers, a physical card game for simulating the software engineering process. more |
Characterizing variation in medical imaging experiments
Hal Stern |
Statistics professor Hal Stern, along with Computer Science professor Padhraic Smyth and graduate student Se Young Kim, are working to characterize the variation in medical imaging at different sites and on different subjects. more |
What Is Going On In Your Software Project?
Paul Dourish |
Graduate student Jon Froelich and Informatics professor Paul Dourish have developed a new interactive visualization tool. more |
Have You Switched Tasks Lately?
Gloria Mark |
In a study of the work practices of analysts, software developers and managers, graduate student Victor M. González and Informatics professor Gloria Mark come to the rather stunning revelation that people average a mere three minutes on a single task. more |
Face-to-Face to Face?
Bonnie Nardi |
Informatics faculty Bill Tomlinson and Bonnie Nardi are studying ways in which social interactive technology can enhance human social relationships during face-to-face contact. more |