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Awards & Honors

Ph.D. Student earns prestigious fellowship

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04/03/2025 - The Department of Computer Science is proud to celebrate fourth-year Ph.D. student, Vinayak M. Kumar, who earned a coveted fellowship with Jane Street.Jane Street, a trading firm that utilizes technology and “a scientific approach” in its business, announced Kumar as one of its nine fellows in the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Award class. Fellows come from over 15 different universities in wide range disciplines including computer science, mathematics, physics, and statistics.

David Wu Among Six University of Texas at Austin Faculty Named Sloan Research Fellows

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02/18/2025 - David J. Wu, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has received a Sloan Research Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes UT Austin as a leading public university and honors early-career researchers for their creativity and independent research. Wu specializes in cryptography, focusing on privacy-preserving systems and secure cloud computations that enable operations on encrypted data while ensuring confidentiality and authenticity.

Brent Waters Elected IEEE Fellow

Professor Brent Waters in blue button-down shirt against a burnt orange background and “It feels good to be recognized by your peers… they understand what I do better than anyone else.” - Brent Waters in white text against a charcoal gray background on the right.

02/05/2025 - Brent Waters, a cryptography professor in the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin, was recently named one of IEEE’s newest fellows.

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