Category: Research

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 […]

Drs. Kantarcioglu and Thuraisingham Presented with the SACMAT Test of Time Award UT Dallas CS Professors and Cyber Security experts, Drs. Murat Kantarcioglu and Bhavani Thuraisingham were recently presented with the Test of Time award by the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2019) for their paper titled “A Semantic Web Based […]

Dr. Latifur Khan Awarded the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award Last May, Dr. Latifur Khan received the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award in recognition for his outstanding and sustained research contributions in the field of Big Data Security and Privacy for over ten years. Dr. Khan was given this award at […]

UT Dallas Professor Helps Invent Traffic Lights That Talk to Each Other and Reduce Congestion Via Dallas Business Journal || Interview By Rob Schneider — Dr. Rym Zalila-Wenkstern and her team at the University of Texas at Dallas invented a smart traffic light system that allows traffic lights to communicate with each other and collaboratively adjusting the timing signals in real-time […]

UT Dallas CS Hosts NSA Workshop on Advanced Data Science This summer, twenty engineers from the National Security Agency (NSA) joined one another at the UT Dallas Computer Science Department for a 5-day NSA funded workshop where they had the opportunity to learn about cutting edge research that is being done in the field of […]

Q&A with Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Via UT Dallas Office of Research Blog Interview By Alyssa Galganov — We are surrounded by an incredible expanse of data, created at an exponential rate and offered on a multitude of electronic devices; a wealth of significant information at the ready to benefit a population eager to absorb it. Can […]

UT Dallas CS Department Hosts the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019) Researchers, students, and industry professionals alike joined one another at the UT Dallas Computer Science Department for the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019). The conference was hosted by the UT Dallas Computer Science Department with […]

UT Dallas CS PhD Graduate, Dr. Travis Goodwin, Awarded 1st Place in the Doctoral Dissertation Competition of the 2019 American Medical Informatics Association Dr. Travis Goodwin a recent computer science Ph.D. graduate at UT Dallas has been awarded the first prize in the doctoral dissertation competition of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA’19) for his […]

UT Dallas CS Department Launches Research Center for Machine Learning Machine Learning has gained significant popularity and has flourished in the past decade due to the development of scalable computing coupled with access to diverse data sources. Consequently, it has seemed only fitting that the UT Dallas Computer Science department would launch a research center […]

Dr. Vibhav Gogate Appointed Program Chair for the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI’19) This July, Dr. Vibhav Gogate, UT Dallas CS Professor and Co-Director of the UT Dallas Center for Machine Learning, will be serving as program chair for the 2019 Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) in Tel Aviv, Israel. This […]