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Awards & Honors

Daehyeok Kim Wins National Research Award for Advancing Cloud Hardware Efficiency

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.

07/23/2025 - 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

UT Theoretical Computer Scientists Earn Gödel Prize

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.

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.

Is AI the Key to Designing Wireless Chips Faster and Smarter?

From left to right: Ph.D. student Song Hang Chai, post-doctoral researcher Hyunsu Chae, professor David Pan and assistant professor Sensen Li.

05/28/2025 - A UT Austin-led research team is developing AI-assisted tools to dramatically accelerate and simplify the design of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs)—a foundational technology for next-gen communications, radar, and autonomous systems. Supported by a $9.6M award from Natcast, the project includes UT Computer Science professor Adam Klivans and aims to expand access to RFIC design while advancing U.S. leadership in semiconductor innovation.

CNS Dean Honors Three UTCS Students in Graduate Honors

Alan Baade, Prasann Singhal, and Jimmy Xin, CS students named Dean's Honored Scholars. Photos of students against an orange block and an abstract background.

05/08/2025 - As part of an annual tradition, the College of Natural Sciences recognized a select number of graduates from across the college with its highest undergraduate honor. Nominated by faculty, three Computer Science graduating seniors were named as part of the Dean's Honored Graduates. 

ACM Recognizes Peter Stone’s Impact on AI, Intelligent Robotics, and Autonomous Agents

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05/01/2025 - Peter Stone, Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin and Chief Scientist at Sony AI, has received the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence. His research has transformed how autonomous agents learn from experience, collaborate in teams, and adapt across tasks—contributions that have shaped the fields of reinforcement learning, multiagent systems, and intelligent robotics.

Jiaheng Hu Earns 2025 Two Sigma Ph.D. Fellowship

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04/23/2025 - Third-year doctoral student, Jiaheng Hu is one of two recipients selected for a Ph.D. fellowship with Two Sigma, a New York-based hedge fund dedicated to research and development in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.