Category: Award

Dr. Emily Kyle Fox Earns NSF CAREER Award for His Designs on More Efficient Algorithms Dr. Emily Kyle Fox, assistant professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas, recently received a five-year, $586,654 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to explore how the […]

Dr. Lingming Zhang Receives NSF CAREER Award for Advance Software Debugging Technology Hunting for software bugs that might be hidden in millions of lines of code can be a painstaking and expensive task. Even the best automated testing and debugging systems cannot detect and fix all possible mistakes, which can affect everything from phone apps […]

UT Dallas SE PhD Alumni, Dr. Oscar Chaparro, Earns the 2020 David Daniel Thesis Award UT Dallas Software Engineering Ph.D. Alumni, Dr. Oscar Chaparro, was named one of two students to earn this year’s David Daniel Thesis Award. The award is supported by an endowment established in 2006 by Dr. David Daniel, president emeritus of […]

Not Just Any Science: Computer Science – Getting a BS CS or BS SE @ UT Dallas Technology is increasingly impacting our lives, from smartphones, social media, devices such as Alexa, the sharing economy of Uber, Airbnb, etc., to the promise of self-driving cars and artificial intelligence. What is common among all these technological advancements […]

Two UT Dallas CS Professors Given Most Influential Paper Awards for Their Work in Software Engineering Since its inception, groundbreaking research within the UT Dallas Computer Science Department has consistently been seen as influential and has been in the national and international spotlight. The UT Dallas Computer Science Department has frequently found itself at the […]

Dr. Kang Zhang Develops the Art of Artificial Intelligence It took years for Pablo Picasso to perfect his style. Now, a University of Texas at Dallas computer science professor is developing algorithms to generate unique images that mimic the cubist pioneer’s paintings in seconds. Dr. Kang Zhang uses artificial intelligence (AI) to teach computers to […]

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Awarded Communications and Information Security Technical Recognition Award from IEEE ComSoc Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founders Chair Professor in Computer Science and the Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, was honored with the prestigious 2019 Communications and Information Security Technical Recognition […]

Chess Team Conquers Belgrade in Cup Match, Prepares for Pan-Am For the second year in a row, The University of Texas at Dallas chess team defeated the University of Belgrade in the teams’ annual competition. Six of the team members are either computer science or software engineering majors and three of them are grandmasters and three of […]

CS Student Entrepreneurs Bring Big Ideas to Pitch Competition Finals Computer science graduate students Shobhana Ganesh and Anish Hegde pitched ResumePuppy, a tool that helps job applicants improve their odds of landing interviews, during the 2019 Big Idea Competition. Their team won the competition’s $25,000 first-place prize. A résumé service that helps job applicants keep […]

Student Hackathon Experience: All Freshmen Team Win 2nd Place at T-Mobile Hacktober Hackathon A freshman CS team at UT Dallas consisting of Supratik Pochampally, Khalid Hossain, Cady Baltz, and Christina Abraham recently competed in the T-Mobile Hacktober Hackathon and finished in 2nd place.  Below is a short story written by Supratik Pochampally about his time […]