Archive for 2016

Jonsson School Honors Outstanding Teachers, Researchers, Staff The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science recently recognized faculty and staff for their contributions and achievements that improve the student experience and create a healthy work environment for other employees. “Our annual appreciation and excellence awards banquet is a fun way to say thank you to […]

CS/SE 2016 Graduates Celebrate at the Biannual UT Dallas CS Graduation Luncheon This spring a total of 446 computer science and software engineering graduate and undergraduate students graduated from the UT Dallas Computer Science department. To recognize the dedication and hard work of the spring 2016 graduating class, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department hosted their biannual graduation […]

22 Teams Present Their Senior Capstone Projects at the UTDesign Spring’16 CS Expo Twenty-two teams of senior UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering students gathered on May 6th to present their UTDesign senior capstone projects. In order to graduate, all students in the UT Dallas Computer Science bachelor’s program are required to complete a one-semester, team-oriented capstone UTDesign project during […]

Izuchukwu “Izu” Elechi, Software Engineering 2016 Graduate, Speaks at the CS Commencement Ceremony Do work you’re proud of. Do work you’re passionate about. Leave the world a better place than you found it, no matter what the scale is. For those who could not attend the Spring 2016 UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering […]

UT Dallas CS Partners with the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for a Special Track on Software Entrepreneurship The UT Dallas Computer Science Department in collaboration with the UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE), will be offering UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering undergraduate students aiming to venture into software-based startups, the […]

Thuraisingham Receives the 2016 Senior Faculty Research Award 35 years of research, development, and technology transfer has resulted in prestigious fellowships, technical achievement awards from IEEE and ACM and culminates in the Jonsson School 2016 Senior Faculty Research Award for Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham.  Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, became the first professor of Computer Science and the […]

UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) Establishes the Center for Engaging Women in Cyber Security Coming off of the success of hosting the Women in Cyber Security (WiCys ) 2016 Conference in Dallas, Texas early last April, the UT Dallas’s Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) has established the inaugural Center […]

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. Kantarcioglu and Team Receive Best Application Paper Award at PAKDD’16 This past April, Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, UT Dallas computer science professor, and Director of the UT Dallas Data Security and Privacy Lab, and one of his team’s research scientists, Dr. Yan Zhou, received the acclaimed Best Application Paper Award from the 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data […]

Dr. Ryan McMahan, Virtual Reality Researcher and CS Professor Wins NSF Career Grant My argument is that virtual reality will never be as realistic as the real world. But there are things we can do in VR that you can’t do in the real world – things that can improve the training process. A prestigious […]