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.”
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.
06/05/2026 - Surbhi Goel is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she joined in 2023 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Microsoft Research New York. She completed her PhD at UT Austin Computer Science (UTCS) in 2020, working at the intersection of theory and machine learning. This year, she was awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Computer Science: one of only 22 early-career computer scientists selected across the US and Canada.
06/11/2025 - 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.
04/03/2025 - Raghu Meka, a 2011 doctoral graduate, was awarded with one of the highest research awards by the IEEE Computer Society, an organization under IEEE that works to improve computer technology for humanity.
03/18/2025 - Omeed Tehrani went from preparing for a career in medicine to building tech products. What made him trade scrubs for code?
02/26/2025 - As a member of the founding cohort of the Texas Honors Computer Science and Business (Texas CSB) program and its first student association president, 2021 alumnus Kevin Qi played a key role in shaping the program. After graduation, he joined Salesforce’s Associate Product Manager program, where he is nearing completion of the program. Qi spoke with UT Computer Science about the lessons he carried from college, his career path, and his advice for the next generation of students.
01/27/2025 - If asked during his freshman year, Sriram Hariharan never would have guessed he would create his first million-dollar acquisition before graduation.Beginning his freshman year summer, Hariharan didn’t hear back from any internships while his friends got their offers. Instead of becoming unmotivated, he took matters into his own hands.
12/14/2022 - For decades, natural language processing (NLP) has provided methods for computers to understand language in a way that mimics humans. Since they are built on transformers, complex neural network layers, these large language models' decision making processes are usually incomprehensible to humans and require large amounts of data to be trained properly. In the past, researchers have tried to remedy this by having models explain their decisions by providing rationales, short excerpts of data that contributed most to the label.
02/23/2022 - An artificial intelligence system made history recently by beating a human world champion in Sony's popular video racing game, Gran Turismo Sport. The technological feat, which made the cover of the journal Nature, involved an AI system designed in part by three University of Texas at Austin computer science Ph.D. alumni and professor Peter Stone.