11/03/2026 - A chair’s seat, an airplane’s wing, a lamp’s shade: people readily recognize these parts, but teaching computers to identify them requires carefully labeled examples. A research paper co-authored by UT Austin computer science faculty member Qixing Huang helped make those examples available at a much larger scale.
10/16/2026 - Great teaching inspires curiosity, builds confidence and helps students see what they can achieve. Across UT Austin’s School of Computing, dedicated faculty bring that spirit to their classrooms every day.
10/09/2026 - Mathematical breakthroughs often come from finding a common idea that connects seemingly different problems. A new research project led by Işil Dillig, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, aims to help artificial intelligence uncover those connections.
10/07/2026 - Roberto Martín-Martín, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin, has been awarded the prestigious 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award.
09/22/2026 - The Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin ranks No. 11 nationally among undergraduate programs in the 2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, released today.Several undergraduate specialties also placed among the nation’s leading programs. Artificial Intelligence ranks No. 10, Computer Systems No. 11, Programming Languages No. 12 and Cybersecurity No. 13.
08/27/2026 - UT computer scientist Joydeep Biswas will lead the new NSF Center for Human and Robot Co-Adaptation. The center will unite researchers from six universities to study how robots and people can learn from and adapt to one another.
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.
05/04/2026 - Educators in the Freshman Research Initiative and soon-to-launch School of Computing received honors.
04/29/2026 - Scott Aaronson, a renowned quantum computing expert, joins the country’s most prestigious scientific organization.
02/11/2026 - Ken McMillan, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, was recently inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors in the field. McMillan is known for his work on symbolic model checking, which enabled automatic verification of hardware and software systems with extremely large state spaces. His innovations laid the foundation for tools such as the Symbolic Model Verifier (SMV), which have become essential for ensuring correctness in complex engineering systems.