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HackUTD: A hub for Creativity and collaboRATION   At The University of Texas at Dallas, computer science and software engineering students thrive in a vibrant, collaborative environment. HackUTD, the university’s premier hackathon, has grown from 120 participants in 2015 to over 1,200 today. It is now the largest hackathon in Texas and the second largest […]

Computer Science Graduate is Featured Speaker at Fall 2024 Commencement   During the recent fall 2024 commencement ceremonies, computer science got a special moment in the spotlight, thanks to featured speaker Eddie Villarreal MS’24. Villarreal spoke at both commencement ceremonies on Dec. 17, having graduated from the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science […]

Computer Science Graduates Offer Lessons Learned During Fall 2024 Commencement   Several computer science graduates worked as student web developers in the Jonsson School’s Office of Strategic Marketing and Communications during the 2024 academic year. We caught up with three of them to find out what they would take away from their time at UT […]

UT Dallas CS Team Qualify to Compete in the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Egypt A team of three University of Texas at Dallas computer science students has qualified to compete in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in Egypt in November. The students ranked 12th in the ICPC North America […]

Dr. Cong Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Further His Research in Autonomous Driving Via UT Dallas News Center | Melissa Cutler –  A professor at The University of Texas at Dallas hopes within the next 10 years, you’ll be driving an autonomous car that his research helped make possible. Dr. Cong Liu, assistant professor of […]

CS Department Holds Its Biennial Retreat on Lake Ray Hubbard The Computer Science Department held its biennial retreat on May 2nd, 2016, at the Rockwall Hilton in Rockwall, TX. The retreat began at 8:30am and went on till 4:30pm. According to Professor Gopal Gupta, Head of the UT Dallas CS Department, the goal of the […]

Dr. Lingming Zhang Wins Google Backing for App Project A UT Dallas scientist is one of eight researchers worldwide to be awarded a grant from Google to pursue software engineering and programming languages research. Dr. Lingming Zhang, assistant professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, received a one-year Google […]

Cyber Security Institute and Information Assurance Information The UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) currently includes eleven core professors conducting research in data security and privacy, software and language security, secure networks, secure systems and forensics, hardware security, information assurance, cryptography, control systems security, data mining for malware detection and security applications. […]

Jonsson School Honors its Own in Year-End Award Ceremony “I am continually impressed by the stories I hear of individuals in the Jonsson School who go above and beyond,” said Dr. Mark W. Spong, dean of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science recently […]