Posts Tagged ‘Dr. Ovidiu Daescu’

For over eight years, the Grace Series has provided a platform for sharing experiences, knowledge, and inspiration. The Grace Series recognizes accomplishments of a diverse group of people from the computing field through empowering talks that aim to foster a sense of community, with a special focus on women in technology. These talks are intended to offer fresh perspectives and different approaches for women to navigate the technology field, whether in academia or industry. Since its inception, 41 speakers have given talks.

Dr. Ovidiu Daescu, a computer scientist whose most recent work involves development of algorithms and computational models that help assess treatment efficacy and predict treatment outcomes in pediatric oncology as well as algorithms for optimization problems in urban environments, is now head of the Department of Computer Science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.

UT Dallas, Undergrad Programs Earn Higher Marks in U.S. News Rankings The University of Texas at Dallas continues to rank among the top universities in the country, according to the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, released Sept. 13. Among public universities overall in the nation, UT Dallas rose to 64th in the rankings, up […]

UT Dallas Data Science Faculty Present Their Breakthrough Research At ACM KDD, The Premier Data Science Conference Computer Science professors at UT Dallas continue to have a strong presence at top-tier data science and machine learning conferences. They recently published multiple papers at the ACM KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) conference, the premier data […]

Center for Applied AI and Machine Learning (CAIML) Assists InfoVision To Develop Drone-Supported Inventory System When InfoVision envisioned a drone-based system for tasks including inventory management, the Richardson, Texas-based technology company turned to a new University of Texas at Dallas center that helps industry partners apply artificial intelligence (AI) to cutting-edge scenarios. Researchers at the Center […]

UT Dallas CS Researchers Apply Power of AI To Forecast Energy Supply, Demand The increasing use of renewable, fluctuating power sources, such as wind and solar energy, has made it more challenging than ever to forecast electricity prices. In partnership with Vistra, one of the largest competitive power generators in the U.S., University of Texas […]

Daescu Interviews Thuraisingham About Her Recent Award and Her Research in Theoretical Computer Science Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham was recently elected a Fellow of the British-based Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) for her research on the Foundations of Secure Data Management. She is already a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, NAI, and the […]

U.S. Congressman Colin Allred Visits the UTD CS Department with STEM Scholars In today’s world of technology, the importance of STEM education, and its role in the future of innovation in science and technology is growing rapidly. To address the growing need for STEM education, U.S. Congressman Colin Allred created the STEM Scholars Program for […]

UT Dallas CS Department Launches Research Center for Machine Learning Machine Learning has gained significant popularity and has flourished in the past decade due to the development of scalable computing coupled with access to diverse data sources. Consequently, it has seemed only fitting that the UT Dallas Computer Science department would launch a research center […]

UT Dallas CS/SE PhD Graduates Acquire Jobs at Prestigious Universities, Research Facilities, and Top Companies The UT Dallas Computer Science PhD program has been in existence since the mid-70s. The UT Dallas Computer Science Department has graduated a total of 310 PhD students, including 31 women, since 2001. In fact, when the Computer Science program […]