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UTPC Team
UT Programming Contests (UTPC) teams delivered a standout performance at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) South Central Regional Competition on November 8, 2025. All four UT teams placed in the top seven out of 61 teams from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Read More
Sabey Data Center
Amid the private sector’s race to lead artificial intelligence innovation, The University of Texas at Austin has strengthened its lead in academic computing power and dominance in computing power for public, open-source AI. UT has acquired high-performance Dell PowerEdge servers and NVIDIA AI infrastructure powered by more than 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell architecture graphic processing units (GPUs), the most powerful GPUs in production to date. Read Article
Amazon just announced its new AI PhD Fellowship program, which will provide two years of funding for more than 100 PhD students at nine universities who are pursuing research on core AI disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing. The goal of the program is to help drive the innovations that will underwrite the next step in the evolution of practical AI. Read More
Number 9 Undergraduate Computer Science Program in the Nation, US News & World Report, 2026.
The Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin ranks No. 9 nationally among undergraduate programs in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. Its Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Theory programs rank No. 7 and No. 9, respectively. Computer Science is one of 24 UT undergraduate programs ranked in the top 10 nationally. Read More
Headshot of Professor Peter Stone, new chair of the UT Austin Department of Computer Science
Prof. Peter Stone is a luminary in the Department of Computer Science, where he has been a faculty member for 23 years. Over the course of his tenure, he has been a firsthand witness to the rapid evolution of computer science research and education. This experience informs his vision for the department as one of continued growth, a strong community of partnership, and a commitment to ensuring our next generation is prepared to lead in a future shaped by emerging technologies. Read More
Photograph of one of the UT Austin Gates Dell Complex towers, shot from below looking upward.
Big news from UTCS: With renewed funding from the National Science Foundation, IFML researchers are expanding their work to make AI more accurate, reliable, and ready for the real world. This critical research will strengthen how AI systems function — and accelerate progress in science, technology, and workforce innovation. Read Article
A professional portrait of Daehyeok Kim, smiling and wearing glasses and a light-colored blazer. Bold text on the left reads "National Research Award for Advancing Cloud Hardware Efficiency" against a blurred cityscape background. His name appears on the right side in white text.
Daehyeok Kim, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a 2025 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project “Toward Programmable NICs as Multi‑Tenant Cloud Resources.” The award provides $622,738 over five years to su Read More
Portrait of Işıl Dillig, smiling, with long dark hair, wearing a dark blazer and pearl earrings, in front of a background that fades from gray to orange. She has been named the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher.
Işıl Dillig, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, earned the 2025 Robin Milner Young Researcher Award from ACM SIGPLAN.  Read More
Portraits of Eshan Chattopadhyay and David Zuckerman against a burnt orange background with bold white text that reads: ‘2025 Gödel Prize.’ Their names appear above their respective photos.
David Zuckerman, professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Austin, and Eshan Chattopadhyay, now an associate professor at Cornell University, have been awarded the 2025 Gödel Prize—one of the most prestigious accolades in theoretical computer science. Read More
UT Programming Team from left to right: Trung Dang (coach) and teammates Aaryan Prakash, Mark Wen, and Dylan Smith.
On Mon, 26 May 2025, the UT Programming Team competed in the International Collegiate Programming Contest North America Championship (NAC) in Orlando, FL, hosted by the University of Central Florida. Read More