Category: Graduates

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. […]

CS/SE Spring’17 Graduates Celebrate All Their Hard Work With A UT Dallas CS Hosted Luncheon In Their Honor This May, the UT Dallas University, families, and friends celebrated the accomplishments of more than 3,400 graduates during eight commencement ceremonies. The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science has 929 candidates for its two ceremonies. To honor […]

University Honors Graduate Students for Excellence in Research, Teaching In recognition of excellence among doctoral students, The University of Texas at Dallas’ Office of Graduate Studies has introduced an awards program honoring the top doctoral dissertation in each school. Winners of the inaugural 2017 Best Dissertation Award were announced at an April reception celebrating excellence in graduate education. […]

Spring 2017 Intern Fair Attracts Top High-Tech Companies Twice a year the Industrial Practice Programs (IPP) for the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science and the UT Dallas Career Center work together to hold the biannual Intern Fair for UT Dallas Computer Science and Engineering students where companies are invited to recruit students […]

UT Dallas CS PhD Graduates Land Jobs at Prestigious Universities, Research Facilities, and Tech Conglomerates In the 2015-16 academic year, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department graduated 14 PhD students, three of whom are women. These graduates have gone on to find jobs in prestigious universities, top tier research facilities, government, and high-tech companies. The […]

UTDallas CS Department Honors the Fall 2016 Graduating Class Last December, family and friends came together at the University of Texas at Dallas campus to celebrate and honor the hard-earned accomplishments of the newest graduating class. Approximately 283 students earned degrees in computer science and software engineering this fall, including 107 bachelor’s students and 165 master’s students. The department also graduated […]

UT Dallas Cyber Security Celebrates Its 6th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week The UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) in conjunction with the UT Dallas Computer Science Department hosted their 6th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week (TexSAW 2016) in November 2016. More than 50 students participated from nine schools including UT Dallas, Abilene Christian […]

Dr. Latifur Khan’s Data Mining Research Group Makes Advances in Data Stream Mining Dr. Latifur Khan, Professor of Computer Science at UT Dallas and Director of the UT Dallas Data Management and Analytics, and his research group have been doing research in data science for a long time. One of their research focus is data stream mining, where they have […]

The Women Who Compute (WWC) Club Organizes Events to Promote Women in Computing and Technology At UT Dallas, both the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the UT Dallas Computer Science strive to promote a strong sense of community amongst the female student body by working with UT Dallas clubs and outside […]

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 […]