07/24/2026 - Carter Leslie is a software engineer at USAA who enrolled in UT Austin's online Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence program in fall 2024. A double CS and math major from Abilene Christian University, he was drawn to AI for sitting squarely at the intersection of both disciplines. Now on the verge of completing the degree in five semesters while working full-time, he sat down to reflect on the experience. Read More
07/22/2026 - ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.” Assistant Professor of Computer Science Elias Stengel-Eskin talks to KXAN News. Watch the broadcast. Read More
07/13/2026 - UT Austin Villa, the award-winning robot soccer team from Texas Robotics, recently returned from Incheon, South Korea, where they competed in RoboCup 2026, the world’s largest and most prestigious robotics competition. The team, led by professors Peter Stone and Joydeep Biswas, is made up of three PhD students and three undergraduates.Read More
07/09/2026 - Today, Ritika Gunnar (B.S. ’99) helps shape how IBM integrates AI into the future of enterprise systems, a role she would not have imagined when she arrived at UT in 1994 as a biology major on a pre-med track. That plan changed after a single surgery observation. “I almost passed out,” she admits with a laugh. “That was not for me.” Read More
07/07/2026 - Congratulations to UT Computer Science faculty member Jerry Li on receiving the 2026 Gödel Prize, one of theoretical computer science's highest honors. Jerry is an associate professor in UT Computer Science and a founding senior researcher with IFML.Read Article
06/18/2026 - The soccer field in UT Austin's Gates-Dell Complex is smaller than what you’d see in the FIFA World Cup. The goals are low, the turf a little worn, and the players are less than four feet tall. But don't let the modest setup fool you. What's happening here is university research that sits at the intersection of robotics and artificial intelligence. And year after year, the team proves that smaller, smarter autonomous systems can reach great heights.Read More
06/17/2026 - Lili Qiu, professor of Computer Science and a leader in AI systems, wireless sensing, and real-world intelligence, was awarded a Test-of-Time award by ACM SIGMOBILE for her 2003 paper: Impact of Interference on Multi-hop Wireless Network Performance, along with co-authors Kamal Jain, Jitendra Padhye, and Venkata N. Padmanabhan. Read More
06/11/2026 - When Ramakrishna Garine sat through executive meetings, waiting days or sometimes weeks for scenario analyses to arrive from data teams, he kept coming back to the same question: why can't this be faster? Read More
06/09/2026 - Arushi Sharma is a computer science and math double major at UT Austin. After interning at Amazon the summer before her senior year, she secured a return offer as a software engineer at their Seattle headquarters. She sat down to talk about what surprised her at UT Computer Science (UTCS), what sets the program apart, and what she'd tell anyone hoping to follow a similar path. Read More
