Archive for April, 2016

Undergrads Explore Joining Faculty Research Projects During the UG Research Speed Matching Lunch This past April, twenty-four UT Dallas Computer Science Undergraduate students were invited to take part in the Spring Computer Science Undergraduate Research Speed Matching Luncheon. The event brought together both UT Dallas’s distinguished computer science and software engineering faculty members and a select group of ambitious CS/SE undergraduate students. Students […]

Dr. Sanda Harabagiu Delivers the Last Grace Series Talk for the Spring 2016 Semester On April 4th, the Grace Series ended its spring 2016 talks with Dr. Sanda Harabagiu, a Professor of Computer Science at UT Dallas, the Erik Jonsson School Research Initiation Chair, and the Director of the Human Language Technology Institute at UT […]

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 […]

Dr. Yvo Desmedt Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts On January 21st, Dr. Yvo Desmedt was elected to become a Foreign Member of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, a prestigious academy consisting of three classes: Science, Humanities, Fine Arts, each class […]

HackUTD’16 Challenges 500 Students for 24 Hours of Ideas, Hacking, and Design Five hundred students from across the nation convened at the UT Dallas Computer Science Department for the second year of HackUTD. Whereas last year’s HackUTD was open to only UT Dallas students, this year, the registration for HackUTD’16 was open to the public. The second HackUTD was […]

UTD CS Professors Publish Sixteen Research Papers at Three of the World’s Leading Conferences in Artificial Intelligence UT Dallas Computer Science professors and their PhD students, working in the area of intelligent systems, published sixteen papers in three of the most prestigious conferences in artificial intelligence: (i) six papers in the 30th AAAI (Association for […]

UT Dallas CS Department Welcomes the Final Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Maria Klawe, World Renowned Computer Scientist, and Advocate for Women in STEM On April 8th, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department concluded its Distinguished Lecture Series with Dr. Maria Klawe, the fifth President of the Harvey Mudd College, one of the top private undergraduate schools […]