Category: Alumni

Recent CS Research Associate from UT Dallas Wins 2014 Emerging Leader Award Thamar Solorio, 2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award, is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to this position, she held a post-doctoral Research Associate […]

Alumnus Finds Bright Side of Success with ‘Dark Room’ Game App Amir Rajan BS’06, who graduated with a degree in software engineering, is not sure how or why his app for “A Dark Room” became so popular. After working full time since he was a student, Amir Rajan BS’06 needed a break.  He decided to quit […]

Campus to Welcome Newest McDermott Scholars This Fall The UT Dallas McDermott Scholars Program has selected 25 students to make up the 2014 incoming class. The entering cohort, the program’s 14th class, was selected from nearly 1,600 high school students from 36 states and four countries who had initially expressed interest in the program. Fifty-nine applicants […]

Alumnus’ Tech Vehicle Dives Deep into Search for Missing Jetliner The Bluefin-21 has been running 20-hour missions as it searches for signs of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the Indian Ocean. The vehicle can reach depths of 15,000 feet and cover 30 miles per day. While the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has […]

Recent PhD Computer Science student is now an Assistant Professor Dr. Yin Yang (yyang@ece.unm.edu) earned his BS degree in Jiangnan University in China and his PhD in Computer Science at UT Dallas in Texas.  He now does research in graphics simulation animation visualization and works as an assistant professor for the Electrical and Computer Engineering […]

Computer Science graduate helps IBM Improve database architecture After completing his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science at UT Dallas, Mustafa Canim started working at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, in Yorktown Heights, NY (mustafa@us.ibm.com).  Since 2011, he has been working on several research projects. One of these projects is related to […]

Dr. Yin Yang (yyang@ece.unm.edu) earned his BS degree in Jiangnan University in China and his PhD in Computer Science at UT Dallas in Texas.  He now does research in graphics simulation animation visualization and works as an assistant professor for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of New Mexico. He is truly […]