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.
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.
12/21/2012 - AUSTIN, Texas—Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a simulation that for the first time emulates key properties of electronic topological insulators.