Category: Research

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 […]

Guide2Research Ranks UT Dallas CS in the Top 100 CS Universities in 2020 This fall, Guide2Research released the latest edition of the annual ranking for top computer science and electronics universities across the United States and the world. According to Guide2Research’s University Ranking for Computer Science, the University of Texas at Dallas ranked #91 globally […]

What Can Past Propaganda Tell Us About Today’s Efforts? Researchers Want To Know University of Texas at Dallas researchers are investigating whether attempts by the U.S. government to gain support from Latin American citizens during World War II can be applied to modern propaganda efforts. The project will develop novel computational models to analyze text […]

Dr. Thuraisingham talks with Aerospace America about Protecting the International Space Station Via Aerospace America  | By Sarah Wells — NASA’s cybersecurity track record has been a troubled one, but as far as the public record shows, the troubles have not reached the International Space Station. What should NASA do to keep it that way? Sarah […]

Jonsson School Researchers Earn Honors from Peers Thuraisingham Recognized for Impact on Technology Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founders Chair in Engineering and Computer Science and executive director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, was recognized as one of 12 female leaders of the last […]

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. […]

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.

Dr. Emily Kyle Fox Earns NSF CAREER Award for His Designs on More Efficient Algorithms Dr. Emily Kyle Fox, assistant professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas, recently received a five-year, $586,654 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to explore how the […]