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Shashank Kumar, UT Dallas CS Student, Wins 3rd Place at Blackstone LaunchPad Pitch Competition
Shashank Kumar, UT Dallas CS Student, Wins 3rd Place at Blackstone LaunchPad Pitch Competition Out of more than 130 student entrepreneurial teams from schools across the Blackstone LaunchPad network, one UT Dallas student impressed the judges on the mainstage of the 2022 Startup Grind Global Conference. Shashank Vinay Kumar, founder of Bonsai and UT Dallas CS…
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UTD Grad Programs Garner Higher Marks in U.S. News Rankings
UTD Grad Programs Garner Higher Marks in U.S. News Rankings Graduate programs at The University of Texas at Dallas received increasing recognition in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, released March 29, with the Naveen Jindal School of Management climbing into the top 30 full-time graduate business schools nationwide. The Jindal School full-time Master of…
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Dr. Mustafa Canim, UT Dallas CS PhD’11, Appointed For A Three-Year Term To The Board Of International Joint Conferences On Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Mustafa Canim, UT Dallas CS PhD’11, Appointed For A Three-Year Term To The Board Of International Joint Conferences On Artificial Intelligence Dr. Mustafa Canim earned his PhD in computer science in 2011 from the University of Texas at Dallas under the supervision of Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu. Dr. Canim was recently appointed for a three-year…
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HackUTD VIII Challenges Students To Use Their Imagination And Knowledge To Change The Lives Of Real People Through Finding Solutions To Real Problems
HackUTD VIII Challenges Students To Use Their Imagination And Knowledge To Change The Lives Of Real People Through Finding Solutions To Real Problems The University of Texas at Dallas Computer Science Department and the UT Dallas ACM hosted one of the largest hackathons in Texas for its 8th iteration last fall. HackUTD encourages students to use their…
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CS Student Selected as One of Five Finalists Chosen to Compete in Blackstone LaunchPad Pitch Competition @ Startup Grind
CS Student Selected as One of Five Finalists Chosen to Compete in Blackstone LaunchPad Pitch Competition @ Startup Grind Five student entrepreneurial teams have been selected to pitch live for a total of over $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes at the upcoming Blackstone LaunchPad Pitch Competition. The competition will be held in Silicon Valley…
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Grace Series Continues to Inspire and Foster a Stronger Community for Women in Tech
Grace Series Continues to Inspire and Foster a Stronger Community for Women in Tech Despite the gains that women have made in STEM careers, men still make up 73% of all STEM workers. In order to combat this issue and help foster a stronger community for women in tech, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department…
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Meet the Newest Class of Axxess Scholars at UT Dallas
Meet the Newest Class of Axxess Scholars at UT Dallas Three computer science students at The University of Texas at Dallas have been selected as the newest cohort of Axxess Scholars. Endowed by a gift from Axxess, a Dallas-based health care technology company founded by John Olajide BS’04, the scholarship program is the largest for…
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Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Discusses How City of Dallas Can Better Protect Itself From Another Major Data Loss
Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Discusses How City of Dallas Can Better Protect Itself From Another Major Data Loss Via Fox 4 News (Dallas, TX) — The report released last week cost the city $500,000. The major conclusion is the city still has a lot of work to do to protect the city’s data. An attorney hired…
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Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Discusses How Ukraine Invasion Raises Possibility of Additional Cyber Attacks in U.S.
Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Discusses How Ukraine Invasion Raises Possibility of Additional Cyber Attacks in U.S. Via Fort Worth Report — Security experts are warning businesses large and small to take extra steps to protect information systems from possible cyber attacks in the wake of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Michael D. Moore, CEO of…
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Jonsson School Researchers to Debut Groundbreaking Cybersecurity Curriculum
Jonsson School Researchers to Debut Groundbreaking Cybersecurity Curriculum The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts the U.S. will have a shortage of 500,000 or more cybersecurity talent in 2021. To help train cybersecurity professionals, Dr. Latifur Khan, professor of computer science and director of the Big Data Analytics and Management Lab at The University of Texas at…
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Dean, Cybersecurity Researchers Recognized in UT Dallas Investiture Ceremony
Dean, Cybersecurity Researchers Recognized in UT Dallas Investiture Ceremony Four faculty members in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science were honored for distinguished academic careers at a virtual investiture ceremony. Endowed chairs and professorships are the highest academic award leadership of The University of Texas at Dallas can bestow on a faculty…
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Dr. Zygmunt Haas Named ACM Fellow for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation
Dr. Zygmunt Haas Named ACM Fellow for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation Innovators Honored for Work in Areas Including Algorithms, Education, Cryptography, Security and Privacy, Medical Informatics, and Networks The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named 71 members as ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including algorithms, computer science education,…