Category: Award

Dr. Harabagiu and CS PhD Student, Travis Goodwin, Receive the Homer R. Warner Award at the 2017 AMIA Annual Symposium Via UT Dallas News Center – Travis Goodwin BS’11, MS’13, a computer science PhD student at UT Dallas, and Dr. Sanda Harabagiu, professor of computer science and Research Initiation Chair in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering […]

UT Dallas CS Researchers Named Most Influential in Field Via Jonsson School News – Multiple Computer Science Department faculty from The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science have been named to the AMiner Most Influential Scholar Annual List, which recognizes the world’s top-cited research scholars – from both industry and academia – in […]

UT Dallas CS Students Win Facebook, Microsoft Awards at HackTX 17 Via UT Dallas Mercury | Noumika Balaj – Two UT Dallas student teams were declared winners of three spot prizes at HackTX 17, the largest annual hackathon in Texas on Oct. 28. One of the teams won Facebook’s “Community Building” award for building Friendzy […]

Two Papers Considered Classic by Google Scholar The work of two Jonsson School professors made it onto Google Scholar’s list of classic papers, a collection that showcases highly-cited papers that have stood the test of time. Google lists the ten most-cited articles that were published ten years prior in different research areas; the first release […]

Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Receives Intelligence and Security Informatics Award Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, a professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, recently received the Technical Achievement Award in Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award, announced at the recent IEEE […]

Henry Vo, CS Department Alumnus, Named Tech Titan of the Future Via Tech Titans – Tech Titans names Henry Vo, UT Dallas CS Department alumnus, tech titan of the future. Tech Titans, the largest technology trade organization in Texas, recognized outstanding technology companies and individuals in North Texas at its annual awards gala at the […]

UT Dallas Partners with CauseBot on Worldwide AI Competition The University of Texas at Dallas is teaming up with CauseBot, an artificial intelligence software company based in Frisco, Texas, to compete in a worldwide AI challenge sponsored by IBM. The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE is a three-year global competition with $5 million in total prizes. […]

Thuraisingham receives the IEEE Computer Society Services Computing Technical Committee’s Inaugural 2017 Research Innovation Award Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham was recently the recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Services Computing Technical Committee’s inaugural 2017 Research Innovation Award for her exceptional research and for her innovations in integrating cyber security, data […]

UT Dallas CS Faculty Members Earn Awards for Their Research A paper co-written by computer science associate professor Dr. Tien N. Nguyen earned an ACM Distinguished Paper Award at the 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. The honor is Nguyen’s fourth ACM Distinguished Paper Award in the past eight years […]

University Recognizes Outstanding Educators with Teaching Awards Via UT Dallas News Center – Five UT Dallas educators were honored with President’s Teaching Excellence Awards for their outstanding efforts in the classroom. The award recipients received medallions at the University’s annual Honors Convocation on May 10. They also were recognized at an April reception hosted by the […]