Archive for 2023

A robot moves a toy package of butter around a table in the Intelligent Robotics and Vision Lab at The University of Texas at Dallas. With every push, the robot is learning to recognize the object through a new system developed by a team of UT Dallas computer scientists.

The new system allows the robot to push objects multiple times until a sequence of images are collected, which in turn enables the system to segment all the objects in the sequence until the robot recognizes the objects. Previous approaches have relied on a single push or grasp by the robot to “learn” the object.

Via IEEE Computer Society – Bhavani Thuraisingham’s impact transcends excellence within education, as she has made countless efforts within bridging the gaps between industry and academics. Additionally, she is the Founders Chair Professor of Computer Science, the Founding Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (2004-2021), and the Co-Director of the Women in Cyber Security and Women in Data Science Centers at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also a visiting senior research fellow at King’s College, the University of London.

Being a PhD student is a significant undertaking that takes time and requires dedication, effort, and patience. During your PhD you are both a researcher and a student. Knowing what to expect can help you learn to adapt to various changes and challenges that may occur when working toward your PhD. With the following interview series, we seek to engage students who want to learn more about the PhD program by learning from those who have gone through it. The following interview is with 2018 PhD alumni, Harish Arunachalam, who now works as a principal engineer with Verizon Communications where he develops enterprise-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) systems, studies advanced AI/ML techniques, tools, frameworks, and business applications, and works on developing responsible, innovative solutions.

The UT Dallas CS Department hosted Computational Geometry Week (CG Week), a premier international forum for advances in computational geometry and its many applications, from June 12-15, 2023. CG Week combines a number of events, most notably the 39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023), the associated Media Exposition (CG:ME), workshops, and the Young Researchers Forum (CG:YRF). The conference provided a platform for researchers, scientists, and engineers in academics and industry to present their current findings in the emerging areas of computational geometry and its many applications.

Team’s AI Tool May Predict Cardiac Arrests in Pediatric Patients University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that could predict the risk of cardiac arrest in children hospitalized in cardiac intensive care units. The technology is the latest work from the Statistical Artificial Intelligence and Relational Learning Group, a UT […]

Via Kera News – Early last month, the city of Dallas was hit with a ransomware attack by the hacker group Royal, which impacted a number of its websites. This is photo illustration of computer code over the city of Dallas emblem.

UT Dallas last week announced it’s joining a nationwide collaboration to research how to make network-connected infrastructure — including self-driving cars, drones and Wi-Fi-connected trains — more resilient to cyber attacks.

Via Dallas Innovates — TraCR—slated to receive $20 million from the DOT over five years—will use everything from adversarial machine learning to blockchain to help fight cyberattacks on our transportation system.

From new cars and autonomous vehicles on our roads to drones in our skies, America’s transportation system has become increasingly connected—and dangerously vulnerable to cyberattacks. Now UT Dallas is joining an effort to patch up those vulnerabilities through the newly formed National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency.

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 Championship in May. The team scored higher than any other Texas university team and finished alongside teams from the nation’s top-ranked computer science programs — ahead of the University of California, Berkeley and one spot below Harvard University.

Computer science and software engineering PhD holders today enjoy a great variety of employment prospects. Opportunities are ample, ranging from working in research and product development divisions of companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, to becoming faculty members in academia to working for or creating their own technology startup. Higher-level positions at companies are also becoming more accessible to computer science and software engineering PhD graduates, as it is common for employers to reserve their top-ranked positions for doctoral degree holders. With the following interview series, we hope to engage students who want to learn more about the PhD program by learning about those who have gone through it.

Via Dallas Innovates | Written by Quincy Preston— On the hunt for a resourceful, cost-effective solution to your company’s tech challenges or project pileup? Or maybe you need a product prototype. UTDesign Capstone is now open for company project applications for Fall 2023. But hurry—the window of opportunity closes soon.
Check out these past projects. One of them is bound to spark an idea for yours.