Archive for 2018

Milestone Reached: UT Dallas Qualifies for State’s ‘Tier One’ Fund The University of Texas at Dallas announced today that it has achieved the critical benchmark criteria required to qualify for funding from the National Research University Fund (NRUF), an exclusive source of research support available to the state’s “emerging research universities.” UT Dallas qualified for […]

UT Dallas CS Student REU Success Story: Nishant Gurrapadi Nishant Gurrapadi is a senior majoring in Computer Science. In 2018, he participated in the AMALTHEA Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program at Florida Institute of Technology and studied Swarm Intelligence techniques. More precisely, this involved the study of the social behavior of artificial agents in […]

iPerform I/UCRC Holds Its 8th Biannual Meeting at UT Dallas University faculty, Industry members, and students met at the University of Texas at Dallas last May for the 8thSemi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board Meeting of iPerform Center for Assistive Technologies (AT) to Enhance Human Performance, a National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). The […]

Industry Internships Bring Big Benefits to Graduate and Undergraduate Students in Computer Science and Software Engineering With the UT Dallas campus located in the center of the Dallas area’s high-tech hub, it is hard not to notice how the campus is surrounded by hundreds of software, hardware, and telecom companies. Not only do these companies […]

Student Internship Success Series: Dhruva Pendharkar’s Uber Technologies Internship This past Spring, Dhruva Pendharkar received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science with a focus on Intelligent Systems from the UT Dallas Computer Science Program. He spent the last summer in San Francisco interning with Uber Technologies as a software developer. Dhruva successfully completed his internship at […]

Dr. Janell Straach Talks with D Magazine About Closing the Gender Gap in Tech Via D Magazine | By Danielle Abril  – Companies seeking to bolster the pipeline of women in tech target education. Before Jaime Chambron was even 10 years old, she had already discovered she had an affinity for math and problem-solving. Her interests led her on […]

CS Professors, TAs Staff Celebrated at Jonsson School Ceremony The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science recently hosted its annual appreciation awards celebration, which recognized faculty, students and staff nominated by their peers for their outstanding contributions and positive attitude. “The Jonsson School hasn’t slowed at all,” said Dr. Poras T. Balsara, the […]

Drs. Gogate’s and Ruozzi’s Explainable AI Project Funded by DARPA for $1.8 Million The Artificial Intelligence Group within the UT Dallas Computer Science Department consists of seven faculty members and is ranked 7th in the nation for its research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and 13th for its research on overall Artificial Intelligence (AI). One of the […]

UT-DIISC Organizes the Third International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC) The UT Dallas Institute of Interactive and Spatial Computing (UT-DIISC) held its third International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC) in Dallas, Texas, on April 12thand 13th. IWISC is an international workshop that provides a forum for international researchers and practitioners from […]

Spring’18 Grace Series Talks Continue to Feature Prominent Women from the Tech Industry This semester, the Spring 2018 Grace Series Talks featured two inspiring members of the tech community, Catherine Walsh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Loss Prevention for Johnson Controls’ Tyco Retail Solutions, and Dr. Nimmi Kannankutty, Deputy Division Director in the Division of Graduate Education (DGE) at the National […]