Category: Award

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 […]

Dr. Zygmunt Haas Awarded Two Prestigious Fellowship Appointments In March 2019, Dr. Zygmunt Haas was selected as one of the 28 engineering professionals awarded with the title of the Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). In order to become a Fellow of the IET, a person has to demonstrate a significant level of individual […]

Ultimate Victory: CS & Engineering Students Esports Team Wins Super Smash Bros. National Title The University of Texas at Dallas earned its first athletics national championship last month, and it was its newest squad that secured the title — the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate team. The esports team traveled to Massachusetts to compete in the […]

Drs. Kantarcioglu and Thuraisingham Presented with the SACMAT Test of Time Award UT Dallas CS Professors and Cyber Security experts, Drs. Murat Kantarcioglu and Bhavani Thuraisingham were recently presented with the Test of Time award by the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2019) for their paper titled “A Semantic Web Based […]

Dr. Latifur Khan Awarded the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award Last May, Dr. Latifur Khan received the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award in recognition for his outstanding and sustained research contributions in the field of Big Data Security and Privacy for over ten years. Dr. Khan was given this award at […]

Jonsson School Recognizes Staff, Faculty and Researchers at the Annual Award Ceremony The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas recently honored staff, teaching assistants and faculty at its annual appreciation awards celebration in May. Award winners were nominated by their peers for their outstanding performance. Dr. […]

UT Dallas CS PhD Graduate, Dr. Travis Goodwin, Awarded 1st Place in the Doctoral Dissertation Competition of the 2019 American Medical Informatics Association Dr. Travis Goodwin a recent computer science Ph.D. graduate at UT Dallas has been awarded the first prize in the doctoral dissertation competition of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA’19) for his […]

CS Faculty Member Dr. Lingming Zhang Wins the Best Industry Paper Award at ICST’19 and Publishes Three Papers at ISSTA’19 UT Dallas Computer Science Professor and expert in the field of Software Engineering (specifically software testing, analysis, and verification), Dr. Lingming Zhang, recently had three papers accepted for presentation at the 28th ACM SIGSOFT International […]

Dr. Thuraisingham Elected Fellow of Two Technology Organizations Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, a professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Dallas and one of the world’s leading experts in data security and data mining, has been elected a fellow of two highly prestigious international technology organizations. Thuraisingham, the Louis A. Beecherl Jr. Distinguished Professor […]

Computer Science Teams Win Big at the 12th Annual UT Dallas Big Idea Competition (BIC) Student teams from The University of Texas at Dallas showed recently that winning a business pitch competition — or launching a successful business, for that matter — requires having not just a great idea but also the preparation, passion and […]