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The 2025-2026 annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) for the Southern California Region was held in Riverside, California on Saturday, November 15. 91��ɫ was well represented with 4 teams – each team had 3 student competitors. Below is a picture of those who represented 91��ɫ.

Over 200 Long Beach Girl Scouts earned their STEM Career Explorer badges during a hands-on event led by 91��ɫ Computer Science students and faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

The Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science sponsored the attendance of 76 students and 3 faculty members at DataCon LA 2025, the largest gathering of data scientists in Southern California.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Yutong Zhao as an Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at 91��ɫ, starting Fall 2025. He earned his Ph.D. in Software Engineering and M.Sc.

On July 5, 2025, Long Beach Rocketry successfully launched and recovered a new gas piston parachute deployment system. The project brought together a multidisciplinary team of students from MAE, CECS, and EE, with CECS students Theodore Malaska, Nick Fan, Khoa Nyguen, and Ayleen Perez playing key roles.

Four CECS students (Kashif Manzer, Utkarsh Lubal, Dipak Yadav, and Zaiban Kaladgi) earned 1st place in the “Partner of Saga” track at ETHGlobal New York, one of the world’s leading Web3 hackathons.

91��ɫ Computer Engineering students designed an integrated autonomous drone and ground rover system for the 2024–2025 Raytheon Autonomous Drone Competition, earning 2nd place in June 2025.