Posts Tagged ‘Cryptography’

This fall, the National Security Agency kicked off its 2022 NSA Codebreaker Challenge, which allows participants to sharpen their technical skills through mission-centric scenarios similar to the type of work the NSA does every day. Students are challenged to use their technical expertise, intuition, and common sense throughout the competition. Any student nationwide can join in on the competition at any time. The UT Dallas CS Team placed fourth overall. Last year, the UT Dallas Computer Science team placed eighth. The team is led by Dr. Kangkook Jee, assistant professor of computer science at UT Dallas; graduate student Josh Wiedemeier and David Wank, a computer science student and Computer Security Group (CSG) officer.

TexSAW Virtually Celebrates its 10th Year Last fall, the UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI), in conjunction with the UT Dallas Computer Science Department, virtually celebrated its 10th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week (TexSAW 2020). Each year, TexSAW brings together cybersecurity, computer science, and software engineering students from across Texas who are interested in […]

Q&A: University of Texas’ Murat Kantarcioglu Online Voting Is Not Safe Via DigitalPrivacy.news | By Patrick W. Dunn — With the concerns surrounding a U.S. Postal Service slowdown and voter suppression, discussions continue to grow about online voting for the 2020 election. But many cybersecurity experts are skeptical, including Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, a professor of computer […]

Q&A With Fall 2019 PhD Graduate Dr. Vipin Singh Sehrawat Dr. Vipin Singh Sehrawat obtained his doctoral degree in computer science from the UT Dallas Computer Science Department this past fall while researching cryptography under the supervision of Dr. Yvo Desmedt. Dr. Sehrawat will be joining Seagate as a Lead Staff Engineer for Cryptography and Product Security this December. […]

UT Dallas Cyber Security Institute Hosts the 7th Annual Texas Security Awareness The UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) in conjunction with the UT Dallas Computer Science Department hosted their 7th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week (TexSAW) last semester. For two days, TexSAW brings together both Computer Science and Software Engineering students […]

UT Dallas Cyber Security Celebrates Its 6th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week The UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) in conjunction with the UT Dallas Computer Science Department hosted their 6th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week (TexSAW 2016) in November 2016. More than 50 students participated from nine schools including UT Dallas, Abilene Christian […]

Dr. Yvo Desmedt Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts On January 21st, Dr. Yvo Desmedt was elected to become a Foreign Member of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, a prestigious academy consisting of three classes: Science, Humanities, Fine Arts, each class […]

CS Department Hosts Three Conferences in October During the last two weeks of October, the CS Department at UT Dallas played host to three prominent computer science conferences. SecureComm 2015, the 11th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, took place from October 26th to the 30th. IEEE MASS 2015, the 12th […]