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Making AI smarter without more training data

David Danelski — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800

UCR researchers develop a method called Test-Time Matching, an approach that significantly improves how AI systems interpret relationships between text and images, especially when presented with unfamiliar combinations.

UCR leads $8 million effort for dynamic computer networks

David Danelski — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800

UCR leads $8 million effort for dynamic and secure computer networks to benefit military needs and civilian applications.

Eleven-year-old studies computer science at UCR

Imran Ghori — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800

When Alisa Perales was a year old she began learning her ABC’s and 123’s. By the time she was 4, she could name the capitals of the world and the bones in a human body. Now at 11 years old, she’s solving advanced mathematical proofs as a computer science major at UC Riverside. Alisa, who started this fall, appears to be the youngest student to enroll at UCR, according to alumni records. She transferred to UCR after completing two associate degrees at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, where she became a student at the age of 8.

UCR computer scientists boost US cybersecurity

David Danelski — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700

UCR computer scientists are developing tools to expose hidden cybersecurity vulnerabilities, protect private data, and strengthen the digital defenses that safeguard everything from personal communications to national infrastructure.

UCR pioneers way to remove private data from AI models

David Danelski — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700

UC Riverside Innovation addresses need to strip AI models of private and copyrighted content.

UC Riverside scientists develop tool to detect fake videos

David Danelski — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700

UCR computer scientists team up with Google scientists to develop an artificial intelligence model that detects fake videos — even when manipulations go far beyond face swaps and altered speech.

Wafer-scale accelerators could redefine AI

David Danelski — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700

The promise of a new type of computer chip that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence and be more environmentally friendly is explored in a technology review paper published by UC Riverside engineers in the journal Device.

Beehive sensors offer hope in saving honeybee colonies

David Danelski — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0800

A UC Riverside computer science team has developed a sensor-based technology that could revolutionize commercial beekeeping by reducing colony losses and lowering labor costs.

AI’s deadly air pollution toll

David Danelski — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electricity to the fast-growing number of computer processing centers. This air pollution, a new UCR and Caltech study estimates, is expected to result in as many as 1,300 premature deaths a year by 2030 in the United States and bring health costs to nearly $20 billion a year.

UC Riverside receives seven grants totaling $7M for graduate education

Iqbal Pittalwala — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

GAANN fellowships from the Department of Education will support students pursuing research in areas of national need

Method identified to double computer processing speeds

David Danelski — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

UCR computer scientists identify method identified to double computer processing speed using existing hardware

UCR outs security flaw in AI query models

David Danelski — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0800

UC Riverside computer scientists have identified a security flaw in vision language artificial intelligence (AI) models that can allow bad actors to use AI for nefarious purposes, such as obtaining instructions on how to make bomb.

Virtual reality headsets are vulnerable to hackers

David Danelski — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Headset hardware and virtual keyboard interfaces that immerse us into expanding worlds of virtual reality also create new opportunities for hackers, UCR computer scientists find studies to be presented at a national cyber security conference.

Google & ChatGPT have mixed results in medical info queries

David Danelski — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0700

A study led by University of California, Riverside, computer scientists found that queries for medical information on ChatGPT produced more objective information than Google, but the ChatGPT results can be outdated and lack the sources of its information.

Artificial Intelligence to reshape deep science learning

UCR News — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Artificial Intelligence, beyond the hype and hysteria in headlines today, plays a growing role in daily life and business – with uses ranging from predictive text to Netflix recommendations to the detection of bank fraud. Much of that progress is thanks to researchers on the cutting edge of complex scientific exploration. And there is more to come.

Protecting computer vision from adversarial attacks

Holly Ober — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0700

UC Riverside engineers are developing methods to keep self-driving cars and autonomous drones from being hacked

New method detects deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy

Holly Ober — Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 -0700

Two-pronged technique detects manipulated facial expressions and identity swaps

Like peanut butter? This algorithm has a hunch as to what you'll buy next

Holly Ober — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0800

A new technique can incorporate customer behavior into recommendation algorithms

Wildfire dataset could help firefighters save lives and property

Holly Ober — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800

WildfireDB contains over 17 million data points that capture how fires have spread in the contiguous United States over the last decade

Botnet buster finds IoT command and control centers

Holly Ober — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0700

Tool fools malware twice and can trick it into revealing itself