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| The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) is a hub of world-renowned researchers from UC San Diego focused on addressing critical real-world problems in modern computing and data processing infrastructure. Essential to CNS’s success is that our students and faculty work closely with industry partners to identify emerging real-world problems and research new techniques, evaluations, methodologies, and technologies before these problems become critical. The testament to our approach is not only in the large numbers of CNS alumni practicing this research-oriented approach at our member companies but also in the direct impact we have had in driving technology adoption/standardization and influencing public policy.
CNS has expertise across a wide range of applied research areas, including storage system design, network measurement and traffic analysis, wireless networking, programming language design, cyber-physical security, data-center networking, cybercrime analytics, and scalable data processing. |
CNS News
Nadia Heninger Named IACR Fellow
Nadia Heninger, professor in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a CNS faculty member, has been named a 2026 Fellow of the International Association for...
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Two CNS Faculty Receive Inaugural Award for Outstanding Teaching Innovation from Jacobs School of Engineering
A scalable, automated grading system designed to provide students with intelligent feedback on their work while freeing up instructor time for in-person student support was recognized with the inaugural Award...
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CNS Research on Network Telescope Visibility Accepted to PAM 2026
Researchers from the Center for Networked Systems (CNS) have had a paper accepted to the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2026, a leading venue for Internet measurement research. The...
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Apply by April 2nd for the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarships
Applications for the CNS Alan Turing Memorial Scholarships are due April 2nd. These scholarships are open to enrolled UC San Diego undergraduates who actively support the LGBTQIA+ community and are...
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CNS Researchers Named Finalists for Research Impact Award at the Third Annual Cyber Policy Awards™
Three researchers from CNS have been named finalists for the Research Impact Award at the Third Annual Cyber Policy Awards™, hosted by the Institute for Security and Technology (IST). The...
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Hidden Differences in Cellular Downlink Scheduling Revealed Across Vendors and Networks
CNS researchers, together with collaborators from Princeton University, will present new work at the Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference, held March 23–25, 2026, examining how cellular base stations make...
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
Congratulations to Wenyi "Morty" Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin, Nadia Heninger, and Aaron Schulman for their 2025 CCS distinguished paper award. Their research was featured in the October...
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UC San Diego’s Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity Protects Patients and Keeps Hospitals Running
Cyber resiliency analyst Jonathon Guthrie unspools 150 feet of ethernet cable across a lawn on the campus of the University of California San Diego toward Almog Bar-Yossef, a student in...
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Two UC San Diego Undergraduates Awarded Prestigious Scholarships
The University of California San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS) is proud to announce that two undergraduate students have been awarded the 2025-2026 Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship and the...
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Amy Ousterhout Receives New Award from Google for ML and Systems Pioneers
Amy Ousterhout, a computer scientist at the University of California San Diego and a CNS faculty member is part of the first cohort of researchers recognized with the 2025 Google...
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