Category: Professor

UT Dallas CS Professors Make a Strong Impact at AAAI’21 Members of UT Dallas’s Machine Learning Center, directed by Professor Sriraam Natarajan and the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute, directed by Professor Bhavani Thuraisingham, have published seven papers at AAAI 2021 (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), a top-tier AI conference held virtually in […]

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 […]

UT Dallas Cyber Security Expert Weighs in on COVID Vaccination Card scams Via Healthline News — The current pandemic has provided scammers new opportunities to defraud the public. The latest one is a fake COVID-19 vaccine “survey.” Experts say it’s illegal to buy vaccines or a vaccination card privately — and there can be legal consequences […]

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 […]

Haas Receives ICOIN 2021 Best Paper Award   Earlier this year, a paper written by Dr. Zygmunt Haas and a post-doc in his research group, Dr. Zhong Zheng, entitled “Engineering a Network in the Sky,” won the Best Paper Award at the 35th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2021). The conference took place on […]

Daescu Interviews Thuraisingham About Her Recent Award and Her Research in Theoretical Computer Science Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham was recently elected a Fellow of the British-based Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) for her research on the Foundations of Secure Data Management. She is already a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, NAI, and the […]

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 […]

Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Named AAAS Fellow for Work in Science, Technology Four University of Texas at Dallas faculty members have been elected 2020 fellows of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science; Dr. Steven Small, […]

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 […]

Culture of Value Micro-grant Fuels Second Annual Art of Kindness Competition Student art contest hosted by Kindness Enterprise at the Center for BrainHealth, in collaboration with ATEC and Computer Science – all with UT Dallas The City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture has awarded a Culture of Value micro-grant to a UT Dallas […]