Category: Research

Mixed Reality for Managing Phantom Pain in the Multimedia Lab Via UT Dallas Jonsson School Magazine — A person wanders into a mixed reality environment. A 3D mirror image avatar of the player appears, surrounded by a series of 3D games to choose from. Smashing brightly colored bubbles as they emerge from the floor is entertaining […]

Q&A With Fall 2019 PhD Graduate Dr. Ashkan Yousefpour From the fall of 2015 to the Fall of 2019 the UT Dallas Computer Science Department has seen a number of PhD students graduate and go on to jobs in prestigious universities, top tier research facilities, government, and numerous technology-based companies. Dr. Ashkan Yousefpour obtained his […]

Dr. Alvaro Cárdenas Discusses His Lab’s Recent IoT Hacks with Newsweek Via Newsweek | Adam Piore — In 2009, just as consumers had begun to buy wifi-enabled thermostats and front-door cams and other early devices that now make up the “Internet of Things,” computer scientist Ang Cui had gotten the idea to scan the Web for “trivially […]

Dr. Zygmunt J. Haas Shares Five Things To Know About 5G Via The Gilmer Mirror — There’s a lot of talk about 5G, as this new generation of wireless technology begins to roll out. But what exactly is 5G and how is it different from 4G? And when will it become ubiquitously available? Dr. Zygmunt […]

Dr. Lingming Zhang Wins Two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at a Leading Software Engineering Conference Dr. Lingming Zhang recently was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for two separate papers presented at the 28th ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2019), a top-tier conference according to csrankings.org and CCF ranking. Dr. Zhang’s group presented […]

Dr. Kevin Hamlen Sets Spaceflight Simulation Game World Record Computer science professor Dr. Kevin Hamlen was searching for the fastest route to a human colony 22,000 light years away in the game Elite Dangerous when the challenge started to look similar to a theory he teaches his students. Hamlen, who was playing with his 6-year-old […]

CS Alumnus Earns Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists, Engineers As a computer science senior at The University of Texas at Dallas, Ryan Burchfield thought he had his future programmed. He wanted to continue his education with a master’s degree then look for a job at a local telecom company. But after an invitation to […]

Drs. Andrian Marcus and Vincent Ng Create Automated System for Improving Computer Bug Reports When software doesn’t work properly, many frustrated users fill out online bug reports. Too often, however, their explanations are unclear or incomplete, leaving developers without enough information to resolve the issue, said Dr. Andrian Marcus, professor of computer science in the […]

Dr. Shiyi Wei Creates Framework That Tracks Down Hard-to-Find Variability Bugs One of the biggest challenges to fixing software bugs can be finding them. With support from the National Science Foundation, computer scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas are going after some of the hardest-to-find errors, called variability bugs, which appear only when […]

Dr. Zygmunt Haas Awarded Two Prestigious Fellowship Appointments In March 2019, Dr. Zygmunt Haas was selected as one of the 28 engineering professionals awarded with the title of the Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). In order to become a Fellow of the IET, a person has to demonstrate a significant level of individual […]