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From Soil to Climate Solutions: Berhe Leads Sierra Nevada Research Institute into its Next Chapter

September 11, 2025
When Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe arrived at UC Merced in 2009, she and her husband, Professor Teamrat Ghezzehei, were leaving major research institutions to join a brand-new campus in California’s Central Valley. It was a leap of faith — one made easier by the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. “...

Damaging Lightning-Caused Wildfires Likely to Increase in a Few Years, Researchers Find

September 3, 2025
Lightning from thunderstorms rolling through Central California on Sept. 2 ignited numerous wildfires, including several large fires in the Sierra Nevada foothills that had burned more than 19 square miles by Wednesday morning. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services recorded more...

UC Merced’s Berhe Joins Scientists in Warning of Global Land Mine Crisis

July 24, 2025
More than 100 million land mines remain buried around the world, posing a threat in approximately 70 countries and territories, and killing or injuring about 5,000 people, most of them civilians, every year.  As the world’s geopolitical landscape shifts, nine scientists studying different aspects...

UC Merced Brings Climate Justice Course to Title I High School Students Across the Nation

May 28, 2025
Recently, more than 150 students at 10 high schools in Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C. completed Climate Justice, a UC Merced course , through a unique partnership between the University of California and the National Education Equity Lab. Guided by its mantra, "Talent is evenly...

Researchers Look Ahead to Fire Season 2025

April 22, 2025
Pictures accompanying Professor John Abatzoglou's presentation on the 2025 fire season were blurry. That was intentional, he said, because so much about wildfire is unpredictable. "There's a lot that we know, and a lot we don't know," he said. However, Abatzoglou said, some conclusions can be drawn...

UC Awards Support Tackling Big Questions in Health, Physics, Agriculture and Climate

February 5, 2025
Faculty members at UC Merced are taking the lead on four Multicampus Research Program Initiatives (MRPI), working with colleagues around the University of California system to address challenges around labor and agriculture, active matter, Indigenous health and fusion energy. “The MRPI program...

Mina Naghshnejad's paper is accepted at the Journal of Supercomputing

October 1, 2019
A paper has been accepted by the Journal of Supercomputing. The paper is titled “Adaptive Online Runtime Prediction to Improve HPC Application Latency in Cloud“ . The paper is available online. The paper is a collaboration of Mina Naghshnejad, PhD Candidate at Cloud...

A paper has been accepted for  Cloud Management and Operations Workshop at IEEE Cloud'2018.

April 27, 2018
A paper has been accepted for  Cloud Management and Operations Workshop at IEEE Cloud'2018. The paper is titled “Adaptive Online Runtime Prediction to Improve HPC Application Latency in Cloud“ and is on applying novel online generative machine learning approaches for...

Two Papers have been accepted by IEEE CLOUD 2017

May 12, 2017
The following two papers have been accepted by 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2017) which will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Mehdi Bahrami, Abhishek Malvankary, Karan K. Budhraja, Chinmay Kundu, Ashish Kundu, Mukesh Singhal, "Compliance-Aware...

A paper has been accepted by ACM SIGHPC SC'16-DataCloud 2016

October 25, 2016
A paper has been accepted by ACM SIGHPC SC-DataCloud 2016. The paper shows a parallel implementation of DPM on GPU. An Efficient Parallel Implementation of a Light-weight Data Privacy Method for Mobile Cloud Users Mehdi Bahrami, Dong Li, Mukesh Singhal Cloud...

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