Archive for 2024

A University of Texas at Dallas student team won a third-place award at an international competition for building a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that can collect data on temperature, pressure and chemicals in the ocean.

The students demonstrated their vehicle, named VESPA, in an Olympic-sized pool in Kingsport, Tennessee, in June at the annual MATE ROV Competition, a program of the Marine Technology Society. The 2024 international collegiate competition focused on ocean-based solutions to climate change.

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham recently received the prestigious IEEE Computer Society’s Impact Award from the Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC) for her groundbreaking research in secure multimedia data systems. This award is usually presented at the annual IEEE Computer Society  MIPR (Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval) conference. This year, the conference took place in San Jose, CA, on Aug. 8, 2024. She is the first woman to receive this highest technical award from the TCMC.  

Dr. Yu Xiang leads the Intelligent Robotics and Vision Lab (IRVL) in the department of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas.

The lab focuses on fundamental research in intelligent robotics and computer vision, and Dr. Xiang considers the scientific question: How can robots conduct tasks autonomously in the physical world to assist humans? For example, he is interested in building robots that can cook a meal or clean a kitchen table for people.

State Farm, which has donated more than $2.4 million to The University of Texas at Dallas since 2014 for student-focused initiatives, recently hosted 46 students from the Undergraduate Success Scholars (USS) program for a career day and workshop at the company’s offices in Richardson, Texas.

University of Texas at Dallas senior Blythe Williams has an enviable collegiate highlight reel, including winning the American Southwest Conference (ASC) women’s basketball championship last season.

In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, The University of Texas at Dallas added track and field to the existing cross country team, firing the starter’s gun on a program racing to the top of the American Southwest Conference (ASC). Two of the most decorated members of the team are scholarship athletes — students who […]

The University of Texas at Dallas has joined a new national center in cybersecurity funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and created to develop strategies to protect the nation’s transportation system against cyberattacks.

A University of Texas at Dallas student team will test and present its solution to one of NASA’s yearlong student design challenges at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

A new book about trailblazing women in computer science highlights Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham’s journey, from growing up in Sri Lanka to becoming a respected academic at The University of Texas at Dallas and a renowned cybersecurity expert. Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W, published in April by the Association for Computing Machinery, celebrates the 30-year history […]

2024 Spring International Contest on Software Testing Software testing continues to be the primary approach used in practice to ensure the development of high-quality software. However, students graduating with a bachelor’s or a master’s degree in computer science or software engineering may not be properly trained for doing software testing cost-effectively. To increase the awareness […]