Faculty

Lorenzo Alvisi Appointed Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

June 11, 2012

Professor Lorenzo Alvisi has been appointed Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. ...

Univ. of Texas group speeds up drug discovery with supercomputers

May 30, 2012

FierceBiotechIT | By Ryan McBrideFor years, drug researchers have tapped computers to take serendipity out of the discovery equation, and a group from the University of Texas at Austin has advanced computational drug discovery further with updated image-reconstruction and modeling techniques, according to the university. ...

Tags: Algorithmic Computational Biology, Chandrajit Bajaj, Faculty, In the News, Research

Professor Peter Stone Elected AAAI Fellow

May 23, 2012

Professor Peter Stone has been elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for his significant contributions to machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics, and pioneering applications in robot soccer, trading agents, and autonomous driving domains. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Peter Stone, Research

5 Ways Self-Driving Cars Will Make You Love Commuting

May 17, 2012

Ordinary Americans can't buy intelligent, self-driving cars just yet, but the technology could someday revolutionize one of the nation's most common road rituals—the morning and evening commutes that bookend the workday for millions of people. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research

Molecular Matchmaking for Drug Discovery

May 16, 2012

From image processing, to 3D modeling, to search algorithms, computer and computational science help improve the drug discovery pipeline ...

Tags: Algorithmic Computational Biology, Chandrajit Bajaj, Computational Drug Discovery, Faculty, Research

Research Corner: Computational Drug Discovery

April 30, 2012

Discoveries in bioinformatics provide new therapeutic interventions to disease by replacing expensive, time-consuming physical experiments with an automated computational search. Public databases now contain experimentally determined sequence and structural information for hundreds of thousands of proteins ...

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Ph.D. Student Suman Jana Receives Google Ph.D. Fellowship and Best Paper Award

April 14, 2012

Current UTCS Ph.D. Student Suman Jana is the recipient of a Google Ph.D. Fellowship and received the Best Paper Award at the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Best Paper, Faculty, Fellowship, Google, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Suman Jana, Vitaly Shmatikov

Alum Luay Nakhleh Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

April 12, 2012

2004 UTCS Ph.D. graduate Luay Nakhleh has been awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. ...

Tags: Alumni, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Guggenheim Fellowship

A tree of life grows in Texas

April 9, 2012

Tandy Warnow is working with postdoctoral fellow Kevin Liu of Rice University and Siavash Mirarab, a Ph.D. student in computer science at The University of Texas at Austin, to create smarter, faster and more accurate algorithms to apply to some of the biggest data sets ever created. ...

Tags: big data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Faculty, morphology, phylogenetics, ranger supercomputer, Research, species, Tandy Warnow, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Tree of Life

2012 College Excellence Award Winners

April 5, 2012

Assistant Professor Mike Walfish and Software Engineer Toren Smith have both been awarded 2012 College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Excellence Awards. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, College of Natural Sciences, Faculty, Michael Walfish, staff, Staff Excellence Award, Teaching Excellence Award, Toren Smith

Grauman Wins Young Investigator Research Award

March 28, 2012

Associate Professor Kristen Grauman is one of 26 winners selected by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as a 2012 Young Investigator (YIP) Award recipient. From a diverse pool of more than 350 candidates of university and college faculty who have attained tenure-track positioning the past five years, 26 winners were selected. ONR YIP awardees are selected based upon the merit of their research and potential contributions for game-changing advances for the Navy and Marine Corps. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Kristen Grauman, Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Award

No lights, no signs, no accidents - future intersections for driverless cars

March 23, 2012

Computer scientists at the University of Texas in Austin are developing intersections of the future, designed to accommodate the driverless vehicles they believe will soon take over our roads. The intersection will have no traffic lights and no stop signs, just computer programs that will talk directly to each car on the road. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Peter Stone, Research

Michael Dahlin's Paper is Among the Best in History of HPDC Conference

March 12, 2012

"WebOS: Operating System Services for Wide Area Applications," a paper co-authored by Michael Dahlin has been selected as one of the top 20 papers in 20 years of publications from the HPDC, the International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing. Co-authors of the paper, are Amin Vahdat, Tom Anderson, Eshwar Belani, David Culler, Paul Eastham, and Chad Yoshikawa. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Michael Dahlin, Research

UT professor leads research into autonomous intersection technology

March 4, 2012

Having already designed an SUV that drives itself, a project group at the University of Texas is now working on the technological next step: an autonomous intersection that lets driverless vehicles navigate without stoplights or stop signs. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research

Researchers Can Build on Public Support for Science

March 1, 2012

As the United States prepares for a year of election-driven partisanship, William Press points to something that many Americans share: a commitment to science. ...

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Pradeep Ravikumar Selected for NSF CAREER Award

February 28, 2012

Pradeep Ravikumar has been selected for an NSF CAREER Award for his project entitled "CAREER: A New Neat Framework for Statistical Machine Learning." ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, CAREER Award, Faculty, NSF, Pradeep Ravikumar, Research

Driving on Autopilot

February 28, 2012

Imagine driving down a street at rush hour. It’s a typical commute, but this time, you’re reading a newspaper in the backseat. The driver’s seat is empty—your car is driving itself. Sounds like a fantasy, right? ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Research