Graduate Students

Yang Wang Earns Google Ph.D. Fellowship

June 14, 2013

UTCS Ph.D. student Yang Wang has earned a Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Distributed Computing. He is one of 39 Google Fellows who will bring their skills and talents to Google in pursuit of more innovations and ideas that the company can incorporate in the future. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Yan Wang

2013 UTCS Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony

May 22, 2013

UTCS honored new Ph.D. graduates at its annual hooding ceremony on Friday, May 17. Each new graduate received a short testimonial from his or her graduate research advisor. ...

Tags: Faculty, Graduate Program, Graduate Students

GDC Sneak Peek

January 18, 2013

Just weeks away from completion, we're giving you a sneak peak at the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall. ...

Tags: Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex, Dell Computer Science Hall, Faculty, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Research, Undergraduate Students

Microsoft's Craig Mundie Shares Insight to Packed House

November 8, 2012

On November 2, 2012 the Department of Computer Science hosted Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer. To a packed house of over 250, Mr. Mundie used the latest Microsoft products to demonstrate the exciting ways computing is extending human capabilities, and enabling us to better understand and improve our world. ...

Tags: Alumni, Craig Mundie, Events, Faculty, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Microsoft, Undergraduate Students

Fighting Back Against Click-Spam

August 21, 2012

Remember that time, a decade or so ago, when spam was the scourge of the Internet, when the sheer volume of junk email threatened to engulf legitimate correspondence and short-circuit the promise of the digital revolution? ...

Tags: click-spam, cybersecurity, Faculty, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Microsoft, Vacha Dave, Yin Zhang

The UT^2 Game Bot Judged More Human Than Humans

August 14, 2012

The UT^2 game bot, created by Jacob Schrum, Igor Karpov, and Professor Risto Miikkulainen, won the Humanlike Bot Competition at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012). The UT^2 bot is the first winning bot in the history of the Humanlike Bot Competition to be judged as human more often than half the human players participating in the evaluation. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, game bots, Graduate Students, Humanlike Bot Competition, IEEE, Igor Karpov, Jacob Schrum, Risto Miikkulainen

Current and Past Ph.D. Students Win Awards

August 8, 2012

Two of UTCS's current and past Ph.D. students have won significant awards. ...

Tags: Alumni, Awards & Honors, Graduate Students, Matt Taylor, Peter Stone, Research, Siavash Mirarab, Tandy Warnow

UT robots win soccer championship in Mexico City

June 26, 2012

UT Austin Villa, a team of robots led by University of Texas computer scientists, took home two 2012 Robot Soccer World Cup division championships during the RoboCup 2012 in Mexico City this month. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Graduate Students, In the News, Jake Menashe, Katie Genter, Nao, Peter Stone, Piyush Khandelwal, RoboCup, Sam Barrett, Todd Hester, UT Austin Villa, Yuchen He

2012 UTCS Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony

May 21, 2012

UTCS honored new Ph.D. graduates at its annual hooding ceremony. Each new graduate received a short testimonial from his or her graduate research advisor. The new doctors were then hooded by UTCS Professor Peter Stone. Afterwards, a reception was held for graduates, faculty, friends and family. ...

Tags: Events, Graduate Students, Ph.D. Hooding

Good Bytes and Good Luck!

May 7, 2012

The Department of Computer Science congratulates its graduating students of 2012. We wished them “Good Bytes and Good Luck” with a graduation celebration catered by Austin’s own Amy’s Ice Cream. ...

Tags: Amy's Ice cream, Events, Graduate Students, graduation, Undergraduate Students

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

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

GradFest Open House 2012

February 27, 2012

The department hosted prospective Ph.D. students at GradFest 2012, a two-day exploration of UTCS research, resources, and community. Over 30 admitted students attended panel discussions, toured labs, and met with faculty one-on-one. Current graduate students hosted the out-of-towners in their own homes for a real look at life as a UTCS grad student. ...

Tags: Events, GradFest, Graduate Program, Graduate Students

Alumnus Receives NSF Grant for Early Career Development

February 15, 2012

UTCS alumnus Dr. Donald Porter has been selected to receive the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award, an award that recognizes promising young faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of both education and research. ...

Tags: Alumni, Donald Porter, Graduate Students

First Annual (Re)Connect Event

February 7, 2012

(Re)Connect, an evening networking reception, brought together UTCS alumni, select UTCS students and FoCS partners on February 1, 2012 for an energetic and effective recruiting, mentoring and networking opportunity at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center. ...

Tags: Alumni, Events, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Undergraduate Students

2012 Scholarship Lunch

February 6, 2012

UTCS recognized scholarship recipients, scholarship donors, and Friends of Computer Science (FoCS) partners with a Scholarship Luncheon at the Alumni Center on February 1, 2012. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Donors, Events, Fellowships, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Scholarship Lunch, Scholarships, Undergraduate Students

ACL2 Team Wins Gold

January 28, 2012

At the VSTTE conference, held as part of the POPL Symposium in Philadelphia, UTCS's very own ACL2 team was awarded one of the two Gold Medals in the 2012 VSTTE verification competition. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students

Recent Faculty Awards

January 26, 2012

Faculty at the The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science (UTCS) are at the forefront of the digital revolution. Congratulations to the following faculty for their accomplishments... ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students

Scholarships & Fellowships

January 25, 2012

UTCS is grateful to our scholarship and fellowship donors whose partnerships with the department afford promising and deserving students the opportunity to study at a top-10 ranked department. These companies, foundations and individuals are crucial in enabling UTCS to recruit and retain top students. ...

Tags: 2012, Awards & Honors, Donors, Fellowships, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, News@UTCS, Newsletter, Scholarships, Undergraduate Students, Winter

Great Success at NIPS Conference

December 9, 2011

Professor Inderjit Dhillon and Assistant Professor Pradeep Ravikumar, together with their postdoc Ambuj Tewari, had remarkable success at The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference this year. They submitted seven papers and all were accepted. NIPS's acceptance rate is about 20%. ...

Tags: Ambuj Tewari, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Inderjit Dhillon, Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS, Pradeep Ravikumar

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