Category: Students

Chess Team Makes Right Moves at Pan-Am, Advances to Final Four For the 17th time in 20 years, The University of Texas at Dallas chess team will travel to New York to participate in the 2020 Final Four tournament. The finals berth comes after the team placed fourth in the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship this week. […]

Class of 2019 Interview with Sruthi Chappidi: PhD Lights Way for Women To Pursue Computer Science As the only girl in her high school computer science class, Sruthi Chappidi BS’14, MS’16 felt like she didn’t belong. As a result, she decided to major in biology when she enrolled in The University of Texas at Dallas, […]

UT Dallas Competitive Programming Team takes 2nd Place at ICPC South Central USA Regional Contest On November 9th of this year, the UT Dallas Competitive Programming Teams competed and won second place at the ICPC South Central USA Regional Contest (SCUSA). The 2nd place winning team consisted of Darrin Wiley, An Nguyen, and Duy Vu. Our […]

UT Dallas CS/SE Program Ranked Ninth Best Bachelor’s in Software Engineering Degrees by Best Computer Science Schools Software engineering is a branch of computer science that deals with the design and maintenance of complex computer systems. It requires an advanced skill set in mathematics and computing technology, and the ability to solve problems while working […]

Chess Team Conquers Belgrade in Cup Match, Prepares for Pan-Am For the second year in a row, The University of Texas at Dallas chess team defeated the University of Belgrade in the teams’ annual competition. Six of the team members are either computer science or software engineering majors and three of them are grandmasters and three of […]

CS Alumni Spotlight: VerNeil “Cubie” Mesecher Via Erik Jonsson School Research Magazine — VerNeil “Cubie” Mesecher (BS’16) is an alumnus of the Jonsson School and the McDermott Scholars Program at UT Dallas. After completing a degree in computer science, he trekked to Seattle, Washington, to work at Amazon Web Services (AWS). His role as a systems […]

CS Student Entrepreneurs Bring Big Ideas to Pitch Competition Finals Computer science graduate students Shobhana Ganesh and Anish Hegde pitched ResumePuppy, a tool that helps job applicants improve their odds of landing interviews, during the 2019 Big Idea Competition. Their team won the competition’s $25,000 first-place prize. A résumé service that helps job applicants keep […]

Grace Series Talks Featuring CEOs, Serial Entrepreneurs, and Professors Continue to Inspire and Empower Students Women have influenced eras and changed the world. Throughout history, women have made extensive contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The need for women in STEM is ever-growing, and it continues to comprise one of the world’s strongest […]

Q&A With Fall 2019 PhD Graduate Dr. Vipin Singh Sehrawat Dr. Vipin Singh Sehrawat obtained his doctoral degree in computer science from the UT Dallas Computer Science Department this past fall while researching cryptography under the supervision of Dr. Yvo Desmedt. Dr. Sehrawat will be joining Seagate as a Lead Staff Engineer for Cryptography and Product Security this December. […]

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 […]