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UT Dallas CS Professor’s PyLINGUAL Project Featured at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2025

UT Dallas CS Professor’s PyLINGUAL Project Featured at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2025 Python is one of the most widely used programming languages globally. It is favored by developers for its flexibility and ease of use, powering everything from artificial intelligence research to web applications. However, its popularity also makes it an attractive […]

Programming Team Competes with Honors at International Contest

Programming Team Competes with Honors at International Contest A University of Texas at Dallas student team, Whoosh, placed in the honors category at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, a competition known as the Olympics of computing. Team Whoosh was one of 139 teams from 103 countries and one of 19 teams in […]

Innovators, Students Earn Honors as Titans in Technology, Science

A former University of Texas at Dallas president, the North Texas Semiconductor Institute and an alum were recognized at Tech Titans’ 25th annual awards on Sept. 12.

Jonsson School Welcomes 22 New Teaching and Research Faculty

The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas welcomes 22 new faculty who have joined since the spring 2025 term. Tenure system faculty and instructional faculty bring expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques applied to a broad range of disciplines, from circuit design to robotics, from data science to systems engineering and from 3D-printed biomaterials to human-computer interaction.

UT Dallas PhD Grad Ningna Wang Selected as 2025 WiGRAPH Rising Star for Next-Generation 3D Geometry Research

UT Dallas PhD Grad Ningna Wang Selected as 2025 WiGRAPH Rising Star for Next-Generation 3D Geometry Research Ningna Wang PhD’25 in computer science was recently chosen as one of eight up-and-coming researchers to participate in the prestigious and competitive 2025 WiGRAPH Rising Stars program. Selected alongside top students from MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell […]

Remembering Dr. Klaus Truemper: Early Visionary of UTD Computer Science

Remembering Dr. Klaus Truemper: Early Visionary of UTD Computer Science A trailblazer in the field of computer science and a beloved member of The University of Texas at Dallas community, Dr. Klaus Truemper , Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, passed away on July 12, 2025, in a plane crash in Weld County, Colorado. He was […]

Computer Science PhD Student earn honors

Charles Averill BS’23, a computer science PhD student at The University of Texas at Dallas, won the student research competition at an international conference for his solution to a longstanding cybersecurity problem.

Summer Research Platform Spurs Undergrads’ Love of Discoveries

Hundreds of students participated in a daylong symposium at The University of Texas at Dallas, where they presented research on topics ranging from disease screening to sound-sensing systems. The Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) symposium held Aug. 1 provided students the opportunity to present summer capstone projects and to gain experience conducting and presenting research. Students […]

Simin Chen Takes Home David Daniel Thesis Award for Research on Trustworthy Machine Learning

Simin Chen Takes Home David Daniel Thesis Award for Research on Trustworthy Machine Learning Before earning the esteemed David Daniel Thesis Award at The University of Texas at Dallas, Dr. Simin Chen began his academic journey in a completely different field: civil engineering. With no formal training in computer science, he was driven by a […]

Engineering Students Show Smarts in Earning SMART Scholarships

Two University of Texas at Dallas students have been awarded Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarships from the Department of Defense. Computer engineering doctoral student Victoria Gammenthaler BS’23 and mechanical engineering senior Kevin Dinh, both students in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, received the scholarship.