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Professor Daescu Wins Grant for Research on Children with Bone Cancer

Professor Daescu Wins Grant for Research on Children with Bone Cancer Dr. Ovidiu Daescu, Professor in the Department of Computer Science, is part of a team that was recently awarded a major grant from the Texas Cancer Prevention Research Institute (CPRIT). He and his collaborators from the University of Texas Southwestern were awarded a grant […]

National Center for Women & IT and Microsoft Research Sponsor UTD’s Tech Girls Summer Camp

National Center for Women & IT and Microsoft Research Sponsor UTD’s Tech Girls Summer Camp The National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT.org) and Microsoft Research has selected to sponsor the University of Texas at Dallas’ Connect-Inspire-Guide Camp for female freshman students. The NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund awards NCWIT’s Academic Alliance members at non-profit […]

NSF Projects Offer Research Experience for Undergraduates

NSF Projects Offer Research Experience for Undergraduates The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas is home to two different research projects for undergraduate students sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Eric Wong, professor of computer science, leads a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) project about software safety, and Dr. Amy Walker, associate professor of materials […]

Summer Research Program for Undergraduates

Summer Research Program for Undergraduates The Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas conducts a ten-week summer research program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for undergraduate students.  For the summer class of 2014 (pictured above) the focus was on “software safety” however, the technology and skills learned by the students […]

Recent CS Research Associate from UT Dallas Wins 2014 Emerging Leader Award

Recent CS Research Associate from UT Dallas Wins 2014 Emerging Leader Award Thamar Solorio, 2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award, is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to this position, she held a post-doctoral Research Associate […]

Graduate Research – Distributed Systems

Graduate Research – Distributed Systems During the Friday mixer on 9/5/2014, in the Computer Science Department at UT Dallas, Joseph Beshay, Brooks McMillin, and Swair Shah talked about their research on Distributed Systems.  Their adviser is Dr. Ravi Prakash.  A summary of their presentation is included below. TCP Optimization for LTE networks LTE vastly increases the […]

Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research

Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research for academic years 2014-2021. Official letters of notification are being sent to Dr. Kamil Sarac at UT Dallas, the State Governor, Members of Congress, and […]

Cybersecurity Researchers Roll Out A New Heartbleed Solution

Technique Called ‘Red Herring’ Creates Decoy Servers, Entraps, Monitors Hackers Who Think They’re Stealing Data. As companies scrambled in recent days to address the latest cybersecurity bug known as Heartbleed, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas had a solution that fixes the vulnerability, and also detects and entraps hackers who might be using […]

Research in Big Data is Big at UT Dallas

At the weekly Computer Science mixer on Friday, 4/18/2014, Luis Mojica, Tahrima Rahman, David Smith, Somdeb Sarkel, Vibhav Gogate, and Deepak Venugopal (pictured above) described their research, related to Big Data.  The camaraderie among the PhD graduate students and their adviser, Dr. Vibhav Gogate, was evident on the first page of their presentation.  The description […]

Week of Activities Highlights Undergraduate Research Opportunities, Examples of Best Work

Thomas J. Broadfoot was able to do research under Dr. Roozbeh Jafari.  Undergraduate students conduct research all across the UT Dallas campus, earning the experience that helps propel them to success in their careers and graduate or professional programs.  But they’re gaining more than just another item on their resumes. “Learning how to communicate effectively […]

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