Graduate Students

08/29/2007 - UTCS is pleased to note a number of recent, significant awards and honors. The department is deeply honored by the peer and public recognition of our work.

02/14/2007 - The Department of Computer Sciences (CS) recognized scholarship donors, Friends of Computer Sciences (FoCS) members, and scholarship recipients with a Scholarship Luncheon at the Alumni Center on February 14, 2007.

09/25/2006 - The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences (UTCS) Friends of Computer Sciences (FoCS) 2006 Career Brunch was held in conjunction with the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Career Expo on September 25, 2006 at the Frank Erwin Center.

04/24/2006 - Texas-Patrick Christmas, a graduate student in computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded $50,000 from Interactive Brokers Group (IBG), for winning its electronic trading Olympiad for colleges.

02/02/2006 - College of Natural Sciences Spring Career Fair. The Department of Computer Sciences and the FoCS member companies participated in the annual event. Students and corporations alike found it to exciting, fruitful and an excellent recruitment opportunity.

09/26/2005 - The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences (UTCS) Friends of Computer Sciences (FoCS) 2005 Honors Brunch was held in conjunction with the College of Natural Sciences.

09/20/2004 - The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences (UTCS) Friends of Computer Sciences (FoCS) 2004 Honors Brunch was held in conjunction with the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Career Expo on September 20, 2004.

08/25/2004 - Sugato Basu, Misha Bilenko and Ray Mooney won the SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award for their paper "A Probabilistic Framework for Semi-supervised Clustering," presented at KDD2004, "the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining."

07/30/2004 - UTCS recognizes faculty and graduate students who earned awards in honors in 2004.

07/09/2004 - For his paper entitled "Diverse Firewall Design" co-authored with Dr. Mohamed G. Gouda, UTCS Graduate Student Alex X. Liu received the 2004 William C. Carter Award.