Category: PhD Students

Here’s Why a Computer Science Degree from UT Dallas is your Launchpad for Career Success We’re reliant on technology more than ever before, and examples abound. Both individuals and businesses use products or services by tech giants, including Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, to meet their business goals or for entertainment purposes. We rely on voice […]

Richardson and UTD Partner for New Innovation District Hub The University of Texas at Dallas is teaming up with the city of Richardson on what they hope will be a transformational project — a new anchor for what Richardson is calling its Innovation Quarter. The district includes about 1,200 acres east of U.S. Highway 75 […]

Computer Scientists Enhance Alexa’s Small-Talk Skills Amazon Alexa can give the weather forecast, play a requested song and set an alarm. But could the virtual assistant ever have humanlike conversations with users? That’s the challenge for a University of Texas at Dallas team of computer science students competing in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge […]

UT Dallas Computer Scientists Create Video Game Mechanism To Detect Cheating Via Dallas Innovates | Written By Lauren Hawkins — Using popular video game Counter-Strike, researchers have created a cheat detection mechanism that can be used in a variety of games. The research is especially important as it has the potential to affect the near $1 billion esports […]

New CS Graduate Finds Success Bit by Bit with True Grit and Talent – PhD Pursuit Is Next for Scholar Who Followed Nontraditional Course Itzel Ramirez Tapia has been going through life at 100 miles an hour for as long as she can remember. As a mother, first-generation college student and underrepresented minority, she’s used […]

Computer Scientists Launch Counteroffensive Against Video Game Cheaters University of Texas at Dallas computer scientists have devised a new weapon against video game players who cheat. The researchers developed their approach for detecting cheaters using the popular first-person shooter game Counter-Strike. But the mechanism can work for any massively multiplayer online (MMO) game that sends […]

A Day in the Life of a UT Dallas Computer Science Student Via Study International — A PhD is like a full-time job; for 26-year-old Takshak Desai from India, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), it happens to be one that he enjoys — a lot. Desai’s weekdays start at […]

UT Dallas CS Hosts the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Virtually for 2000 Attendees The UT Dallas CS Department recently hosted the 2000-person Virtual IEEE Computer Society’s 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) April 20-24, 2020. ICDE, a top tier Data Science conference, was originally meant to take place in Dallas from April […]

Dr. B. Prabhakaran, professor of computer science and director of the UT Dallas Multimedia and Computer Graphics Lab, and a team of researchers led the collaboration of the first-ever, trans-pacific collaborative plant walk. The Trans-Pacific Collaborative Mixed Reality Plant Walk involves three different locations (or sites), three different time zones, on two different continents.

UT Dallas SE PhD Alumni, Dr. Oscar Chaparro, Earns the 2020 David Daniel Thesis Award UT Dallas Software Engineering Ph.D. Alumni, Dr. Oscar Chaparro, was named one of two students to earn this year’s David Daniel Thesis Award. The award is supported by an endowment established in 2006 by Dr. David Daniel, president emeritus of […]