Computer Science & Engineering
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UC Santa Cruz hosts AI summit and hackathon events for SF Tech Week
The two events brought together industry leaders, founders, builders, and students.
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Mitigating risks in free-flowing AI chatbot conversations
The NSF CAREER Award-funded research will focus on safety in addiction-recovery and teenage mental health scenarios, but can be applied to any chatbot use.
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Exploring cybersecurity needs for energy-efficient analog computing
Baskin Engineering hardware security expert Dustin Richmond will study vulnerabilities in compute-in-memory architectures with the support of an NSF CAREER Award.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods 2025: Jennie Lin at Google
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Jennie Lin (Crown ’25, computer science) is a software engineer at Google.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Samiyah Shaikh at Carnegie Mellon University
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Samiyah Shaikh (John R. Lewis ’25, computer science) is pursuing a Master’s degree in software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Girls in Engineering brings STEM to life for middle school students
This summer, 45 middle school students from across Santa Cruz and Monterey counties participated in the five-day camp, taking part in hands-on projects, lab tours, and a field trip to Google.
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Nine projects receive seed funding from the Genomics Institute
From listening to the electrical signals of fungal networks in fire-scarred forests to training AI models that can interpret the most complex regions of the human genome, this year’s cohort is using genomics in bold new applications.
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A ripple effect of support: Alumna Bev Crair uplifts student success
Alumna Bev Crair (Stevenson ’83, computer science and mathematics) actively supports UC Santa Cruz philanthropically and currently serves as the co-chair for the university’s comprehensive fundraising campaign, Inspiring Change.
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Celebrating teaching
The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching (COT) has selected the 2025-26 Excellence in Teaching Award recipients and the 2025-26 Distinguished Teaching Award recipient.
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Students create agentic AI at first UC Santa Cruz hackathon with NVIDIA, ASUS
Dedicated students spent 24 hours hacking, and had the opportunity to use cutting-edge AI hardware brought to UC Santa Cruz for the event.
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UCSC team places second in Embedded Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition
The result showcases the campus’s excellence among the cybersecurity community.
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Engineer to develop secure data center hardware for the public cloud with NSF CAREER Award
Yuanchao Xu will lead this research with the support of one of the most prestigious grants in support of early-career faculty