Category: Professor

Q&A: University of Texas’ Murat Kantarcioglu Online Voting Is Not Safe Via DigitalPrivacy.news | By Patrick W. Dunn — With the concerns surrounding a U.S. Postal Service slowdown and voter suppression, discussions continue to grow about online voting for the 2020 election. But many cybersecurity experts are skeptical, including Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, a professor of computer […]

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Interviewed by IEEE for Women in STEM Series Via IEEE Computer Society — The Diversity and Inclusion Task Force presents Women in STEM, with Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founders Chair Professor of Computer Science and the Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Bhavani […]

Dr. Kantarcioglu Provides Advice on How to Protect Your Privacy in a Virtual World Americans are getting used to attending class, work and even social meetings online. But as we participate in an increasingly virtual world, how much are we thinking about our online privacy? University of Texas at Dallas cybersecurity expert Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu […]

Dr. Kantarcioglu Talks With CBS DFW I-Team About Online Safety For Kids In The Virtual Classroom Via CBSDFW.COM – In registering children for the new school year, parents probably read, and maybe signed, a routine photo release form about schools posting images of their students on social media sites. But the CBS 11 I-Team discovered […]

Dr. Ravi Prakash Offers Tips for Working or Learning from Home Via Fox 4 News — With millions of Americans working from home and many children learning at home, your internet service may have slowed to a crawl. Help is here from Dr. Ravi Prakash, a professor of computer science at UT Dallas. Source | […]

Dr. Kamil Sarac Discusses the Recent Internet Connection Issues as the New School Year Begins Via Dallas Morning News — Virtual learning sputters to a halt in schools across North Texas after hardware crash at regional hub. More than 50 school districts in a nine-county area, including Collin and Dallas Counties, ran into connectivity problems Thursday morning. […]

Members of the UT Dallas Cyber Security Team Receive Prestigious Awards Affiliated With Multiple IEEE Technical Committees Three members of the UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) received various prestigious awards at conferences affiliated with the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the Special Technical Committee on Smart Computing. […]

Dr. Gopal Gupta talks with NBC DFW about Autonomous Semi-Trucks Hitting North Texas Roads Via NBC DFW News – Interview By Diana Zoga — They don’t get distracted and they don’t get tired behind the wheel – that’s the idea behind autonomous semi-trucks. Aurora, the latest tech company to announce it is testing autonomous vehicles in […]

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.