Category: Award

UT Dallas Researchers Unveil New Cybersecurity Defenses at USENIX In August 2022, the USENIX Security Symposium published groundbreaking cybersecurity research papers by two UT Dallas computer science professors, Dr. Shiyi Wei and Dr. Kangkook Jee.  Wei’s paper additionally received the symposium’s Distinguished Paper Award, identifying his work as one of the top cybersecurity discoveries of the year. Started in 1988, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Computer Science Professors Make UTD History as New IEEE Fellows Two University of Texas at Dallas computer science professors were elected fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology. Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, Ashbel Smith Professor of computer science, and Dr. Latifur Khan, professor […]

Computer Scientist Gets Grant To Strengthen Software Protection Like thieves looking for unlocked doors or windows, cybercriminals search for mistakes in software code that could allow them to break into computer networks to steal private data or launch attacks. Dr. Shiyi Wei, assistant professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Dallas Erik […]

UT Dallas CS Student Earns IEEE AIVR Best Presentation Award Last Winter, UT Dallas Ph.D. Student Yu-Yen Chung was awarded the Best Presentation Award by the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) for his research paper titled “High-Quality First-Person Rendering Mixed Reality Gaming System for in Home Setting.” The paper was written by […]

Thuraisingham Honored with a Special Recognition Award at IEEE Cyber Security Cloud Conference For Her Work on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Cyber Security, Cloud and Data Science Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founders Chair Professor of Computer Science and Founding Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute, received the Special Recognition Award at […]

For Esports, Year Full of Smashing Successes, New Energy Although this year’s championship took place completely online, when the UT Dallas Super Smash Bros. Ultimate team won its second national title, the sense of victory was palpable. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University’s varsity athletics esports team spent its entire season meeting, practicing and […]

Computer Scientists Enhance Alexa’s Small-Talk Skills Amazon Alexa can give the weather forecast, play a requested song and set an alarm. But could the virtual assistant ever have humanlike conversations with users? That’s the challenge for a University of Texas at Dallas team of computer science students competing in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge […]

Haas Receives ICOIN 2021 Best Paper Award   Earlier this year, a paper written by Dr. Zygmunt Haas and a post-doc in his research group, Dr. Zhong Zheng, entitled “Engineering a Network in the Sky,” won the Best Paper Award at the 35th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2021). The conference took place on […]