UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO (UCSD)

Julie Sylvia

BACKGROUND  History  Founded in 1956  Mission  dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through excellence in education and research at the undergraduate, graduate, professional school and postdoctoral levels  Notable Research  Global Warming  Keeling Curve

RANKING  Academic Ranking of World Universities (by Shanghai Jiaotong Uni.)  World Wide: 14  National: 12  Times Higher Education  32

STUDENTS  Total: 28,200  Distributions  Social Science: 47%  Biology: 22%  Engineering: 14%  Others: 17%  Employment after Graduated  Teacher: 8.4%  Engineer: 8.0%  Scientific Researcher: 5.1%  Others: 78.5%

DIVISIONS AND SCHOOLS  Arts & Humanities  Biological Sciences  Int'l Relations/Pacific Studies  Jacobs School of Engineering  Computer Science and Engineering  Physical Sciences  Rady School of Management  School of Medicine  Scripps Inst. of Oceanography  Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences  Social Sciences

LOCATION

 La Jolla(pronunciation: “La Holla”) LOCATION

FACILITIES

 jointly run by UCSD and University of California, Irvine(UCI)  2 buildings on each campus  UCSD: Voigt Drive (next to the School of Engineering)  Research focus:  wireless communications  Photonics  Cyberspace  Nanotechnology  micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CALIT2)

 Student center PRICE CENTER

 Main library GEISEL LIBRARY

 Famous: Protein Data Bank  internationally recognized  computational biosciences  computational approaches to earth sciences and genomics SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER

 1st outdoor shake table in the world LARGE HIGH PERFORMANCE OUTDOOR SHAKE TABLE

 >5000 animals  ~380 species  >410,000 visitors per year BIRCH AQUARIUM

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

 425 student organizations  CS-related 1.IEEE Graduate Student Chapter at UCSD 2.Computer Science and Engineering Society 3.SAGE  Assist each other on studies 4.Trudy  Learn and discuss interest in the field of Computer Science STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

 6 residential colleges  Revelle College  John Muir College  Thurgood Marshall College  Earl Warren College  Eleanor Roosevelt College  Sixth College COLLEGE SYSTEM

EVENTS

 Aquarium  Community Service  Conference  Dance/Party  Film/Movies  Concerts/Bands  Sports/Recreation  Health Sciences  Lectures/Seminars  Libraries  Performing Arts  Religious Events  Other Events(e.g. Dinner, Exhibits, FoodSales, Internal Events, Special Events and more...) > 10 CATEGORIES

 Friday of the 7th Spring semester  for students to enjoy themselves after midterm  Art/DJ/Band performances SUN GOD FESTIVAL

of Spring Semester PUMPKIN DROP/WATERMELON DROP

Oliver Reeve DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

DEGREES  Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) offers four degree programs:  the B.S. degree in computer science  the B.A. degree in computer science  the B.S. degree in computer engineering  the B.S. degree in computer science with a specialization in bioinformatics  Difference between B.A. and B.S.:  B.A. stands for “Bachelor of Arts”  B.S. stands for “Bachelor of Science”

BACKGROUND  The CSE department is part of the Jacobs School of Engineering The Computer Science and Engineering Building

FACILITIES  more than 300 high-performance UNIX/Linux and Windows-based workstations  a large number of laptop systems  several hundred wireless personal digital assistants  two network-attached terabyte disk arrays  four separate high-performance compute clusters  Good use of San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING’S RESEARCH

RESEARCH THEMES  Algorithms and Complexity  Artificial Intelligence  Bioinformatics  Computer Architecture and Compilers  Computer Graphics and Computer Vision  Databases and Information Management  Embedded Systems & Software  High-Performance Computing  Meaning and Computation  Programming Systems  Security and Cryptography  Software Engineering  Systems and Networking  Ubiquitous Computing  VLSI/CAD (Computer-Aided Design)

RESEARCH PROJECT (SMART VIVARIUM)  Smart Vivarium Project  Physiologic and Environmental Monitoring of Rodents  Automatically analyze the behavior of mice from video surveillance  Estimate the position of each mouse in each frame of video.  Label the instantaneous behaviors of each mouse  Data are catalogued and analyzed to determine the health of each mouse.

RESEARCH PROJECT (SMART VIVARIUM) Basic Posture Recognition: 1. Sit 2. Walk 3. Stretch

RESEARCH PROJECT (SMART VIVARIUM) Count the footstep of mice

RESEARCH PROJECT (SLEEP SERVER)

 PCs maintain network presence and availability in sleep mode  Reduce energy consumption  Creates lightweight virtual images of sleeping PCs, and these pared down images maintain connectivity and respond to applications  Each virtual PC image enables remote access to the sleeping PC it represents  Sleep Server seamlessly wakes up the physical PC - owner tries to connect remotely into the machine from home - the user needs to remotely access stored files and media.  Support more PCs (250PCs with one SS -> 500 PCS with two SS)  Highly Scalable Architecture

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QUESTIONS PREAPRED

QUESTIONS 1.What is the most notable research in your university history? 2.Which school/department has the most number of students? Why? 3.According to the university fact sheet, many graduates become teachers. Why? 4.Is there anything special about the learning atmosphere in UCSD? 5.What do you think is special about CSIE department in UCSD comparing to other universities in California? 6.How do students in USCD study? 7.How is the education for degree students? And Do degree students have chance to do research? 8.How much time and energy do you invest in general education other than professional curriculum? 9.Is the education theory-based or project-based?