UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
SAN DIEGO (UCSD)
BACKGROUND
@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
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STUDENTS
 Total: 28,200
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Social Science: 47%
Biology: 22%
Engineering: 14%
Others: 17%
 Employment after Graduated
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Teacher: 8.4%
Engineer: 8.0%
Scientific Researcher: 5.1%
Others: 78.5%
DIVISIONS AND SCHOOLS
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Arts & Humanities
Biological Sciences
Int'l Relations/Pacific Studies
Jacobs School of Engineering
 Computer Science and Engineering
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Physical Sciences
Rady School of Management
School of Medicine
Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Social Sciences
LOCATION
LOCATION
 La Jolla(pronunciation: “La Holla”)
FACILITIES
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CALIT2)
 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:
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wireless communications
Photonics
Cyberspace
Nanotechnology
micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
PRICE CENTER
 Student center
GEISEL LIBRARY
 Main library
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
 Famous: Protein Data Bank
 internationally recognized
 computational biosciences
 computational approaches to earth sciences and genomics
LARGE HIGH PERFORMANCE OUTDOOR
SHAKE TABLE
 1st outdoor shake table in the world
BIRCH AQUARIUM
 >5000 animals
 ~380 species
 >410,000 visitors per year
EXTRA-CURRICULAR
ACTIVITIES
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
 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
COLLEGE SYSTEM
 6 residential colleges
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Revelle College
John Muir College
Thurgood Marshall College
Earl Warren College
Eleanor Roosevelt College
Sixth College
EVENTS
> 10 CATEGORIES
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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...)
SUN GOD FESTIVAL
 Friday of the 7th week @ Spring semester
 for students to enjoy themselves after midterm
 Art/DJ/Band performances
PUMPKIN DROP/WATERMELON DROP
 @Halloween/end of Spring Semester
DEPARTMENT OF
COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND ENGINEERING
Oliver
Reeve
DEGREES
 Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
of fers four degree programs:
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the B.S. degree
the B.A. degree
the B.S. degree
the B.S. degree
bioinformatics
in computer
in computer
in computer
in computer
science
science
engineering
science with a specialization in
 Dif ference 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 Engin eerin g 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
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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)
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 Ser ver 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
REFERENCE
 http://smartvivarium.calit2.net/
 http://mesl.ucsd.edu/yuvraj/research/sleepserver.html
 http://www -cse.ucsd.edu/faculty -research.html
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?