Awards & Honors

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.

10/22/2025 - 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.

09/24/2025 - 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.

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

07/01/2025 - 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. 

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.

05/30/2025 - 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.

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.