Category: Students

CS & SE Seniors Showcase Their Innovative Ideas, Skills, and Solutions at the Spring’18 UTDesign CS Expo Every semester, UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering seniors come together one final time before graduation to present their final capstone project at the biannual UTDesign Computer Science Expo. This past May, forty-three teams ranging from three to five members each, presented […]

HackUTD’18 Inspires Student Creativity and Innovation for a Fourth Year Last spring, more than 550 college students from all over Texas formed teams for HackUTD’18, a 24-hour Hackathon organized and run by the UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) in partnership with Major League Hacking. Students were challenged to use […]

UT Dallas CS Students Win Smart Cities Competition Using AI to Address School Shootings Research professor Marjorie Zielke PhD’07 and a company founded by computer science senior Ashlesha Nesarikar have both won the city of Richardson’s Smart Gigabit Communities development challenge. The challenge is part of US Ignite’s encouragement for participating cities to create Smart City applications addressing […]

400 High Schoolers Compete at this Spring’s Battle of the Brains: HS Programming Competition The Spring 2018 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition was held on April 7th, with State Farm Insurance sponsoring the event. Registration for the Spring 2018 competition was free, thanks to the sponsorship. The contest drew more than 117 teams comprising […]

Emerging Technologies Summit Highlights Blockchain Technology Via UT Dallas Mercury News | Cindy Folefack – Students and faculty members at UT Dallas had the opportunity to network with industry leaders during a summit focused on adapting companies to new technological discoveries. The UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosted the first annual Emerging Technologies […]

UT Dallas CS and IT Empowerment for Her Program Promote STEM Education for Middle School Girls Through Weekend Workshops Last January and February, Saumya Rawat, a senior at Dallas’ School of Science and Engineering Magnet, worked with Dr. Janell Straach, a CS Professor and the Director of the UT Dallas Center for Engaging Women in […]

Students’ Entrepreneurial Venture Receives Support from the UT Dallas CS Department The UT Dallas Computer Science Department recently instituted the Software Startup Launch Track to motivate computer science and software engineering students to become entrepreneurs. Under this program, student engagement with entrepreneurship starts from the freshman or sophomore year itself, and culminates in a startup housed […]

Company Co-Founded by CS Student Invited to Participate in the Red Bull Launch Institute Via UT Dallas Mercury | Noumika Balaji –  Co-founder of augmented reality platform for tourist attractions attended program to help develop young entrepreneurs A UT Dallas student startup was selected to participate in the Red Bull Launch Institute, a program Red Bull […]

As Beta Launch Nears, UT Dallas CS Entrepreneur Has Nothing To Lose But Time Via Dallas Innovates | Jeanne Spreier – UT Dallas student James Griffin is applying the skills he’s learned at Blackstone LaunchPad for his startup RamifAI, a degree-planning software startup that uses artificial intelligence. For UT Dallas senior James Griffin, the route to startup success […]

UT Dallas Team Wins Grand Prize at Texas A&M Hackathon Via UT Dallas Mercury | Noumika Balaji – A UTD team was declared the grand prize winner at TAMUHack 2018, the Texas A&M annual hackathon, for developing an app utilizing social media for first responders. The team also won the “Best Hack for Social Good,” sponsored by […]