Category: Award

UT Dallas CS Professor’s PyLINGUAL Project Featured at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2025 Python is one of the most widely used programming languages globally. It is favored by developers for its flexibility and ease of use, powering everything from artificial intelligence research to web applications. However, its popularity also makes it an attractive […]

Programming Team Competes with Honors at International Contest A University of Texas at Dallas student team, Whoosh, placed in the honors category at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, a competition known as the Olympics of computing. Team Whoosh was one of 139 teams from 103 countries and one of 19 teams in […]

A former University of Texas at Dallas president, the North Texas Semiconductor Institute and an alum were recognized at Tech Titans’ 25th annual awards on Sept. 12.

UT Dallas PhD Grad Ningna Wang Selected as 2025 WiGRAPH Rising Star for Next-Generation 3D Geometry Research Ningna Wang PhD’25 in computer science was recently chosen as one of eight up-and-coming researchers to participate in the prestigious and competitive 2025 WiGRAPH Rising Stars program. Selected alongside top students from MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell […]

Charles Averill BS’23, a computer science PhD student at The University of Texas at Dallas, won the student research competition at an international conference for his solution to a longstanding cybersecurity problem.

Simin Chen Takes Home David Daniel Thesis Award for Research on Trustworthy Machine Learning Before earning the esteemed David Daniel Thesis Award at The University of Texas at Dallas, Dr. Simin Chen began his academic journey in a completely different field: civil engineering. With no formal training in computer science, he was driven by a […]

UT Dallas Doctoral Student Miao Miao Wins First Place at ICSE 2025 ACM Student Research Competition Miao Miao, a doctoral student in The University of Texas at Dallas Department of Computer Science working under the guidance of Professor Shiyi Wei, has earned international recognition for her innovative research in software testing. At the 2025 International […]

Leaders at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas recognized faculty, staff and graduate students at its annual meeting and awards ceremony held in the spring.
Dr. Stephanie G. Adams, dean of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and Lars Magnus Ericsson Chair, congratulated the award winners and thanked everyone for their perseverance and contributions during the year. She reminded participants of her charge to make 2024-25 a “Year of Creativity” and highlighted that engineers and computer scientists are highly creative people, despite stereotypes of left-brained STEM professionals.

A University of Texas at Dallas researcher’s pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) technology to reduce traffic delays and emissions developed in collaboration with the city of Richardson was named a Smart 20 Award winner and one of the top three projects at the 2025 Smart Cities Connect Spring Conference and Expo.

Computer science senior Jack Le in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science  has been named a recipients of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation award.