Category: Award

Hack Week Winners Develop Mobile App for City of Richardson The City of Richardson is working to implement a new mobile app developed by a pair of UT Dallas students at a community hackathon event. More than 200 UT Dallas students formed teams for Hack Week, an event sponsored by State Farm where the students were […]

Codeburners: A 16-Year Old Competitive Coding Club for UT Dallas CS Students Since its inception over 16-years ago, the Codeburners (pdf) club has garnered over 500 members while under the supervision of Dr. Ivor Page, the club’s faculty supervisor and a UT Dallas Computer Science Professor of 35 years. The Codeburners is a group of […]

Dr. McMahan & Other UT Dallas Professors Honored at Convocation for Passion, Commitment to Students If it wasn’t for undergraduate research I probably wouldn’t be here today. It was undergraduate research that lured me into getting a master’s degree and, from there, continuing on to get my PhD. When undergraduates apply to graduate programs, most […]

Jonsson School Honors Outstanding Teachers, Researchers, Staff The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science recently recognized faculty and staff for their contributions and achievements that improve the student experience and create a healthy work environment for other employees. “Our annual appreciation and excellence awards banquet is a fun way to say thank you to […]

Thuraisingham Receives the 2016 Senior Faculty Research Award 35 years of research, development, and technology transfer has resulted in prestigious fellowships, technical achievement awards from IEEE and ACM and culminates in the Jonsson School 2016 Senior Faculty Research Award for Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham.  Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, became the first professor of Computer Science and the […]

Dr. Kantarcioglu and Team Receive Best Application Paper Award at PAKDD’16 This past April, Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, UT Dallas computer science professor, and Director of the UT Dallas Data Security and Privacy Lab, and one of his team’s research scientists, Dr. Yan Zhou, received the acclaimed Best Application Paper Award from the 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data […]

Dr. Ryan McMahan, Virtual Reality Researcher and CS Professor Wins NSF Career Grant My argument is that virtual reality will never be as realistic as the real world. But there are things we can do in VR that you can’t do in the real world – things that can improve the training process. A prestigious […]

Dr. Lingming Zhang Wins Google Backing for App Project A UT Dallas scientist is one of eight researchers worldwide to be awarded a grant from Google to pursue software engineering and programming languages research. Dr. Lingming Zhang, assistant professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, received a one-year Google […]

Dr. Yvo Desmedt Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts On January 21st, Dr. Yvo Desmedt was elected to become a Foreign Member of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, a prestigious academy consisting of three classes: Science, Humanities, Fine Arts, each class […]

2nd Annual CS Research Expo Encourages Research Amongst Undergraduate Students Last February, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department held the second Annual Computer Science Research Expo (CSREX) as a way to encourage undergraduate research. Computer Science students from around Texas and the Southwest submitted their research papers, posters, and software demos for the Expo. The […]