Category: Students

UT Dallas Chess Team Comprising of 3 Grandmasters & 1 International Master CS/SE Majors Takes 3rd Place at Final Four Tournament in Big Apple Update 4/15/19: The UT Dallas chess team defeated a solid Harvard University squad and finished in third place at the 19th annual President’s Cup collegiate chess tournament April 6 and 7 […]

Computer-Savvy High Schoolers Compete at the Spring’19 Battle of the Brains: HS Programming Competition The Spring 2019 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition was held on April 6th, with State Farm Insurance sponsoring the event. Registration for the Spring 2019 competition was free, thanks to the sponsorship. The contest drew more than 117 […]

HackUTD’19: A 24-Hour Marathon of Student Innovation, Creativity, Learning, and Fun This past February, HackUTD, a 24-hour annual hackathon, organized by UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM in partnership with the Major League Hacking (MLH) Organization, was held in UT Dallas’s newest building, Engineering & Computer Science West. HackUTD ’19 was organized under the guidance […]

UT Dallas CS Organizes a 5-Day Workshop on Deep Learning Last January, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department hosted a deep-dive into deep learning with a Professional Development Workshop with Tarry Singh, the CEO, Founder, and AI Researcher at deepkapha.ai. Approximately, ninety people attended the 5-day workshop to learn about GANs, RNN, CNN & Deep Reinforcement Learning. The workshop drew in not […]

User Experience Conference Provides UX Enthusiasts With a Look Into the Exciting Future of UX Design Researchers, students, and industry professionals alike joined one another at the UT Dallas Computer Science Department for the 2019 Conference on User Experience (UX). The goal of the one-day conference was to provide a forum for UX Design enthusiasts […]

UTDesign CS Capstone Projects Provide CS & SE Seniors with Real-World Experiences before Graduation The UTDesign Senior Capstone Project is the culmination of the undergraduate experience, where the knowledge students have gained throughout the course of their college education is applied to a major design project. The pinnacle of the experience is the UTDesign CS […]

Chander Dhall, UTD CS Alumnus & CEO of Cazton, Inspires Graduates at the CS Fall’18 Graduation Luncheon Nearly 2,800 students earned their UT Dallas degrees last fall. The largest-ever December cohort of graduates included 1,524 bachelor’s students and 1,189 master’s students. Seventy-one doctoral candidates were also certified. About 2,750 students participated in the commencement ceremonies, […]

Software Engineering Student, Jean-Pierre Salazar Lubo, Speaks at the Jonsson School’s Fall 2018 Commencement Ceremony Today I feel an immense joy as I reflect on years of memories and look longingly toward the potential of the future. Today we accomplish something that is only once in a lifetime, and I cannot wait to celebrate it. […]

The term “hacker” usually conjures up an image of a nefarious computer whiz secretively working in a dark room. But at Hacks for Humanity at The University of Texas at Dallas in October, that notion couldn’t have been further from the truth. Dozens of computer experts and nonexperts joined Arizona State University in tying technical […]

UT Dallas CS Department and AI Society Organizes the 2nd HackAI Contest In today’s data-driven world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the economic landscape of the world. As technology continues to grow, AI’s role in our lives will only grow bigger. This November, the student-run AI Society used the opportunity of a […]