Category: Students

University Welcomes Newest Class of McDermott Scholars This Fall The Eugene McDermott Scholars Program at The University of Texas at Dallas has selected 16 students to make up its 2018 incoming class. The program provides these select students with UT Dallas’ rigorous and personalized education, along with a four-year program of intensive extracurricular activities. McDermott Scholars have access […]

UT Dallas CS/SE PhD Graduates Acquire Jobs at Prestigious Universities, Research Facilities, and Top Companies The UT Dallas Computer Science PhD program has been in existence since the mid-70s. The UT Dallas Computer Science Department has graduated a total of 310 PhD students, including 31 women, since 2001. In fact, when the Computer Science program […]

Milestone Reached: UT Dallas Qualifies for State’s ‘Tier One’ Fund The University of Texas at Dallas announced today that it has achieved the critical benchmark criteria required to qualify for funding from the National Research University Fund (NRUF), an exclusive source of research support available to the state’s “emerging research universities.” UT Dallas qualified for […]

UT Dallas CS Student REU Success Story: Nishant Gurrapadi Nishant Gurrapadi is a senior majoring in Computer Science. In 2018, he participated in the AMALTHEA Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program at Florida Institute of Technology and studied Swarm Intelligence techniques. More precisely, this involved the study of the social behavior of artificial agents in […]

Industry Internships Bring Big Benefits to Graduate and Undergraduate Students in Computer Science and Software Engineering With the UT Dallas campus located in the center of the Dallas area’s high-tech hub, it is hard not to notice how the campus is surrounded by hundreds of software, hardware, and telecom companies. Not only do these companies […]

Student Internship Success Series: Dhruva Pendharkar’s Uber Technologies Internship This past Spring, Dhruva Pendharkar received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science with a focus on Intelligent Systems from the UT Dallas Computer Science Program. He spent the last summer in San Francisco interning with Uber Technologies as a software developer. Dhruva successfully completed his internship at […]

CS Professors, TAs Staff Celebrated at Jonsson School Ceremony The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science recently hosted its annual appreciation awards celebration, which recognized faculty, students and staff nominated by their peers for their outstanding contributions and positive attitude. “The Jonsson School hasn’t slowed at all,” said Dr. Poras T. Balsara, the […]

Student Internship Success Series: Ashley Handoko’s USAA Internship Ashley Handoko is a recent 2018 graduate from the UT Dallas Computer Science Department’s Undergraduate Program with many accomplishments under her belt. The summer before Ashley started her freshmen year as a CS student at UT Dallas, she was invited to attend Dr. Janell Straach’s Connect-Inspire-Guide Camp for Incoming […]

CS Computing Scholar Honor Student, Esther Goldstein, Speaks at the Jonsson School’s Spring 2018 Commencement Ceremony The University of Texas at Dallas’ graduated its largest class of graduates last May. The cohort included 2,393 bachelor’s students, 2,090 master’s students, and 107 doctoral candidates. Nearly 1,080 students graduated from the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. This included […]

Computer Science Grad Wins OZY Genius Award for Advising App James Griffin BS’18 describes himself as shy, but ask him, “What’s new?” and his smile lights up the room. “I just won an OZY award,” said Griffin, a 21-year-old entrepreneur who graduated magna cum laude in May with a computer science degree from the Erik Jonsson School of […]