Archive for March, 2017

The Spring’17 Grace Series Continues to Empower With Dr. Peggy Shadduck, DCCCD STEM Institute Director The Spring 2017 run of the Grace Series carried on with its second speaker, Dr. Peggy Shadduck, Director of both the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) STEM Institute and the Dallas/North Texas STEM Degree Accelerator Program. Last February, Dr. Peggy Shadduck’s Grace Series […]

Thuraisingham Receives The Inaugural And Prestigious Research Award In Data And Applications Security And Privacy At The 2017 ACM CODASPY Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham is the inaugural recipient of the prestigious 2017 CODASPY Research Award, presented at the Association of Computing Machinery’s Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY) in Scottsdale, Arizona on March 23, 2017. This award represents a high honor that is given to a researcher working in Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DASPY) who […]

New Living Learning Community to Help Female Students Gain STEAM When Dr. Janell Straach took computer science courses at UT Dallas a few decades ago, there were very few female students in her classes. “I just accepted it as that’s the way it is. We all knew each other. You found each other and clung together,” she […]

Dr. Gopal Gupta’s Paper from 2006 Stands the Test of Time – Jonsson Chair, PhD Alumni Earn Recognition for Programming Research That Remains Influential A paper written in 2006 by UT Dallas computer science department head Dr. Gopal Gupta and three of his PhD students received a 10-year Test of Time Award from the Association for Logic Programming (ALP) […]

Dr. Wong and Colleagues Hold I/UCRC S2ERC Meeting at UT Dallas Professor Eric Wong and his colleagues organized a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored I/UCRC planning meeting on February 16 and 17, 2017. This was part of the ongoing effort to make the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) at UT […]

UT Dallas CS Students Take First Place at Smart Cities Hackathon Two computer science students from The University of Texas at Dallas recently won a first-place award at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for their Alexa-based tool that maps safety on the street. Junior Pablo Sarquis Peillard and sophomore Raviteja Lingineni were on a five-member […]

DALLAS (CBS11) – Even if you try, it’s nearly impossible these days not to have a footprint online, which means everyone is a potential target for hackers looking to steal identities and clean out bank accounts. “We are very vulnerable,” said Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, a cyber security expert at the University of Texas at Dallas. “Being aware […]

Spring 2017 Intern Fair Attracts Top High-Tech Companies Twice a year the Industrial Practice Programs (IPP) for the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science and the UT Dallas Career Center work together to hold the biannual Intern Fair for UT Dallas Computer Science and Engineering students where companies are invited to recruit students […]

UT Dallas Computing Scholars Celebrate Success with Internships and Research Opportunities The Computing Scholars Honors Program (CS2) began in the fall of 2013. It was designed to attract students with excellent academic records and provide them a cohort elite style of classes taught by our best instructors at a deeper level of theory and mathematics. Our […]

The UT Dallas Computing Scholars Program Student Internship Success Stories: Shayan Monadjemi Shayan Monadjemi is a junior in the CS2 program. In 2016, he participated in the Smart Environments REU Program at Washington State University (WSU) and helped develop an algorithm for discovering and maintaining a list of frequent and interesting patterns occurring in a […]