Category: Students

CS Student Selected as One of Five Finalists Chosen to Compete in Blackstone LaunchPad Pitch Competition @ Startup Grind Five student entrepreneurial teams have been selected to pitch live for a total of over $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes at the upcoming Blackstone LaunchPad Pitch Competition. The competition will be held in Silicon Valley […]

Meet the Newest Class of Axxess Scholars at UT Dallas Three computer science students at The University of Texas at Dallas have been selected as the newest cohort of Axxess Scholars. Endowed by a gift from Axxess, a Dallas-based health care technology company founded by John Olajide BS’04, the scholarship program is the largest for […]

Big Idea Competition Showcases Burgeoning Startup Scene at UTD Three pitch competitions were rolled into one awards ceremony that conferred more than $400,000 in prize money for the 2021 Big Idea Competition at The University of Texas at Dallas. The Nov. 9 ceremony, hosted by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) in the Edith […]

UT Dallas WEHack Founder Named a Top 50 Hacker Via Erik Jonsson School News − With minutes to go, computer science student Medha Aiyah checked her code. Though she had not accomplished a fully viable application for fashion selection within the timeframe of the HackUTD hackathon, she breathed a sigh of relief. She had tackled an […]

UT Dallas, Undergrad Programs Earn Higher Marks in U.S. News Rankings The University of Texas at Dallas continues to rank among the top universities in the country, according to the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, released Sept. 13. Among public universities overall in the nation, UT Dallas rose to 64th in the rankings, up […]

CS Grads Return for Comet Rite of Passage at In-Person Commencement When the COVID-19 pandemic forced college seniors across the globe to finish their final semester online, it dramatically altered one of the most significant events of their lives: their college graduation ceremonies. This August, The University of Texas at Dallas held ten commencement ceremonies […]

Discover and Succeed with a PhD from UT Dallas Computer Science Department Via Study International — Exposure to top-notch guidance inspired Yemen-born, Wyoming-raised Austin Mordahl to merge his educational and computer science passions with a PhD. He knew the right place to do it was with his alma mater, the University of Texas at Dallas […]

UT Dallas CS Student Earns IEEE AIVR Best Presentation Award Last Winter, UT Dallas Ph.D. Student Yu-Yen Chung was awarded the Best Presentation Award by the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) for his research paper titled “High-Quality First-Person Rendering Mixed Reality Gaming System for in Home Setting.” The paper was written by […]

CS Student, David M. Brooks, Speaks at the Jonsson School’s 2021 Commencement Ceremony We did it. We arrived. Code compiled successfully… after I suppressed compiler warnings, but hey, it runs right? We all didn’t start off the same. Many of us come from different high schools, different countries, different majors, or are of different ages. […]

For Esports, Year Full of Smashing Successes, New Energy Although this year’s championship took place completely online, when the UT Dallas Super Smash Bros. Ultimate team won its second national title, the sense of victory was palpable. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University’s varsity athletics esports team spent its entire season meeting, practicing and […]