The Cyber Security Club at UC Davis will compete for the crown of top network protector in the western region, while hosting workshops, speakers and competitions of their own to connect students with skills in system defense.
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, the University of California, Davis, College of Engineering recognizes women in engineering, their journey to and in the field, and how they promote a diverse, equitable and inclusive world.
Meet some remarkable women in the Department of Computer Science, and learn how they inspire inclusion in engineering.
UC Davis computer science major Ashwin Chembu collaborated with fellow UC students to develop Echo, an app that uses biometric information to authenticate identities online. The app took first prize in the Interactive Media track at HackMIT 2023.
Last month, Foram Shah, a University of California, Davis, computer science student, attended an invitation-only STEM conference and took home a first-place win and a $3,000 prize for SPEAK, a hand-held and low-cost language learning device.
Balint Szigeti Csucs, a third-year computer science and engineering major originally from Hungary, spent the first two years of his undergraduate experience exploring opportunities and building community.
The Farm Robotics Challenge is a national competition for students to create automated solutions to issues farmers face during production. One UC Davis team took the top prize.
A new study from UC Davis suggests that artificial intelligence recommendation algorithms on sites like YouTube and TikTok can play a role in political radicalization. The research team trained “sock puppets” — artificial entities that act like users. Each sock puppet was given a series of right- or left-leaning videos to watch every day, and then the team would compare the recommendations on the sock puppet’s homepage to see if its recommended videos gradually became more biased.
Ph.D. student Rajvardhan Oak stumbled upon an underground market for fake Amazon reviews by accident while scrolling through Facebook. Seedy scam networks are using social media to organize campaigns that influence product ratings. They’re a headache for shoppers—and tough to crack down on.
A new study from UC Davis suggests that AI recommendation algorithms on sites like YouTube and Tik Tok can play a role in political radicalization. If the algorithm sees that a user is watching a lot of biased political videos, the researchers found that it can trap them in a “loop effect,” recommending similarly biased and potentially more extreme content on their homepage and sidebar.
