Category: Award

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 […]

UT Dallas Chess Team Creates Winners The University of Texas at Dallas chess team is known for winning. In addition to securing four national collegiate championships and going to the “Final Four” chess tournament 16 times, some former team members are now coaching other college chess programs, while others are making their mark in the […]

Dr. Lingming Zhang Wins Two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at a Leading Software Engineering Conference Dr. Lingming Zhang recently was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for two separate papers presented at the 28th ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2019), a top-tier conference according to csrankings.org and CCF ranking. Dr. Zhang’s group presented […]

Dr. Kevin Hamlen Sets Spaceflight Simulation Game World Record Computer science professor Dr. Kevin Hamlen was searching for the fastest route to a human colony 22,000 light years away in the game Elite Dangerous when the challenge started to look similar to a theory he teaches his students. Hamlen, who was playing with his 6-year-old […]

CS Alumnus Earns Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists, Engineers As a computer science senior at The University of Texas at Dallas, Ryan Burchfield thought he had his future programmed. He wanted to continue his education with a master’s degree then look for a job at a local telecom company. But after an invitation to […]

UTD CS Alumni Working as Faculty Members at ASU Earn Accolades Dr. Ajay Bansal, a 2007 UT Dallas PhD graduate who now is employed as an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering program in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE) at Arizona State University (ASU), was recently awarded (2019) the Teaching […]

Drs. Andrian Marcus and Vincent Ng Create Automated System for Improving Computer Bug Reports When software doesn’t work properly, many frustrated users fill out online bug reports. Too often, however, their explanations are unclear or incomplete, leaving developers without enough information to resolve the issue, said Dr. Andrian Marcus, professor of computer science in the […]

Dr. Shiyi Wei Creates Framework That Tracks Down Hard-to-Find Variability Bugs One of the biggest challenges to fixing software bugs can be finding them. With support from the National Science Foundation, computer scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas are going after some of the hardest-to-find errors, called variability bugs, which appear only when […]