Archive for 2025

University of Texas at Dallas students got the opportunity to envision a possible future in research that they may not have considered during the annual Exhibition of Excellence in Undergraduate Research held April 10-15.

University of Texas at Dallas students and alumni pitched their ideas spanning biotechnology, artificial intelligence, sustainability and digital community-building April 16 at the 2025 Big Idea Competition finals hosted by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE).

As part of the Spring 2025 Grace Series, The University of Texas at Dallas Department of Computer Science welcomed Krupa Brahmkstri, senior consultant and data scientist at Visa, for a compelling talk entitled “The STEM Journey: From Student Life to Professional Success.”

The Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas was proud to welcome Kathy Nik, software engineering manager at L3Harris, as the featured speaker for the Spring 2025 Grace Series talk. In her uplifting talk, “One Foot in Front of Another,” Nik shared her personal story with students, faculty and guests, delivering a powerful message of perseverance, resilience and leadership with heart and determination.

Students Advance in Amazon Challenge A University of Texas at Dallas student team is one of 10 from around the world selected to compete in a new Amazon tournament designed to strengthen the security of software developed with the assistance of artificial intelligence.

Last fall, the Multimodal Interaction (MI) Lab within the computer science department at The University of Texas at Dallas hosted over 60 students for an engaging “Tech Demo Day,” showcasing the lab’s cutting-edge research in multisensory interfaces and immersive user experiences in virtual reality (VR).

Team Enhances AI-Driven Medical Coding Automation Platform CorroHealth Inc., a leader in autonomous medical coding, leverages large language models (LLMs) and natural language processing (NLP) in its PULSE Coding Automation Technology. The platform drives accuracy, efficiency and speed at scale to code for outpatient provider and risk-based payer reimbursements.

Last fall, a group of talented UT Dallas ECS students earned top honors at UT Austin’s HackTX 2024 with their innovative project, Angel’s Protection. The team—Le Duy Pham and Bryant Hargreaves (senior software engineering students), Dan Nguyen (a senior computer engineering student) and Sunay Shehaan (a computer science freshman attending his first hackathon)—secured three first place awards: “Best Use of Intel AI,” “Best Use of GenAI with InterSystems IRIS Vector Search,” and “Best Ground-Up Model.” Their prizes included laptops, $10,000 in cloud credits, and $2,400 in cash.

Last fall, the Multimodal Interaction (MI) Lab within the computer science department at The University of Texas at Dallas hosted over 60 students for an engaging “Tech Demo Day,” showcasing the lab’s cutting-edge research in multisensory interfaces and immersive user experiences in virtual reality (VR).

Dr. Latifur Khan, a computer science (CS) professor in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas, along with his research team of UT Dallas CS graduate students (Naif Alatrush, Luay Abdeljaber, Sultan Alsarra and Parker Whitehead) and political scientists from UT Dallas (Dr. Patrick Brandt), the University of Arizona, and West Virginia University received the Best Paper Award for their research — “Extractive Question Answering for Spanish and Arabic Political Text” — at the 17th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS), held at Carnegie Mellon University in Sept. 2024