Eighteen UTCS Students Awarded Endowed Presidential Scholarships

Congratulations to our 2021-22 Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship Award Winners
06/02/2021 - UT has announced the Endowed Presidential Scholarship Award winners for the 2021-2022 year and we are proud to announce that 18 of our UTCS students were selected for the prestigious award!  Read More

Four UTCS Students Named 2021 Dean's Honored Graduates

UTCS students and Dean's Honored Graduate's James Dong, Marissa Elise Chabella Jenkins, Niklas Lauffer, and Nivedhitha Selvaraj
05/25/2021 - Each year, the College of Natural Sciences selects a group of outstanding graduating seniors to receive the college’s highest honors. They are recognized as the Dean's Honored Graduates because they have demonstrated multidisciplinary excellence, excelled in both academics and scientific research, personal intellectual pursuits, leadership, service, entrepreneurship and community building. Fewer than one percent of the graduating CNS class received this distinction. Read More

Graduating Computer Science Student Leaders Look Back on Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Computer science seniors Audra Collins and América Quistiano
05/21/2021 - Computer science seniors América Quistiano and Audra Collins said they would not be here, on the cusp of graduating from one of the best computer science programs in the country, without the Hispanic Association of Computer Scientists and the Association of Black Computer Scientists. "I 100% believe I would have dropped out," Quistiano said. "I wouldn't have switched majors, not even switched schools — I would have dropped out if it weren't for HACS and ABCS." Read More

UTCS Alum Ron Green’s Lifelong Love for AI Started at UT, Now He Works to Democratize It

UTCS Alumnus Ron Green
05/17/2021 - Alum Ron Green might not have always known what he wanted to major in, but he always knew he wanted to attend UT Austin. He grew up watching Longhorn football legend Earl Campbell play at a young age and recalls being a die-hard Longhorn ever since. Read More

Seven UTCS Students Awarded Black and Latinx Advocacy Council’s Aspire Award

Audra Collins, Chineye Emeghara, Edén Garza, Marissa Jenkin, Mikayla Moore, América Melany Quistiano
05/11/2021 - The Department of Computer Science is proud to announce that seven of our students were recently awarded the 2021 Aspire Award. The Aspire Award recognizes undergraduate students from underrepresented groups in the sciences and celebrates their achievements in research, service and leadership. Read More

Alison Norman Selected by Alumni to Receive the Alcalde's Texas 10 Award

Alison Norman, MS ’06, PhD ’10 Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Computer Science | Years at UT: 10
05/05/2021 - Each year, the Alcalde asks alumni to vote for their favorite professors: the teachers who inspired them and helped make their college experience unforgettable. This year UTCS professor Alison Norman is among these Texas 10. Read the full article, Introducing the 2021 Texas Ten, to learn more about Alison Norman and the other 2021 Texas Ten. Read More

UTCS Alum Tarun Nimmagadda: A Self-Starter in Mission-driven Entrepreneurship

UTCS alum and advisory council member Tarun Nimmagadda
04/19/2021 - Tarun Nimmagada Graduated the from UT Computer Science with a bachelor's in 2009. He was accepted to the Turings Scholar program, a computer science honor program that requires students to complete an honors thesis before graduating. Read More

Professors Qixing Huang and Joydeep Biswas Awarded NSF Career Award

Professors Joydeep Biswas and Qixing Huang
04/15/2021 - The National Science Foundation’s CAREER award is a prestigious award presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to early-career faculty who have showcased potential as academic role models and have shown excellence in their role as teacher-scholars. The award is given once every year and recipients receive a federal grant for research and education activities.  Read More

Aaronson Receives ACM Prize in Computing

Scott Aaronson
04/14/2021 - The Association for Computing Machinery has awarded Scott Aaronson the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing. Aaronson is the David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. Read More

Yaskawa Partnership Accelerates Robotics Research at The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Chetan Kapoor with a dual-arm, SDA10F robot

Dr. Chetan Kapoor with a dual-arm, SDA10F robot.

04/05/2021 - Yaskawa, a global manufacturer of servos, motion controllers, AC motor drives, switches, and industrial robots, is establishing a partnership with The University of Texas at Austin. This partnership is marked with a gift of a dual-arm, SDA10F robot that will be available for the use of the Texas Robotics faculty. Read More

The Power of Storytelling

Niti Malwade and Rashu Jain, Co-Founders of Stories of Austin. Photo by Iris Li

03/10/2021 - Two UT student entrepreneurs shine a light on Austin small-business owners. Read More

Exploring Passive RFID Tag Use For Sensory Technology

Dr. Swadhin Pradhan and Professor Lili Qiu

PhD graduate Dr. Swadhin Pradhan and his advisor Professor Lili Qiu

03/03/2021 - When was the last time  you changed out a battery in your house? Studies show that battery-powered devices are used substantially in modern times, Americans use nearly 3 billion batteries every year. Batteries are currently popular because they are able to make electric devices, such as flashlights and watches, portable. However, our usage of batteries extends further from just portable electronic devices. Read More

Bridging the Gap Between Industry and Academia

Illustration of automated car driving down three lane road, sensing cars around it.
01/14/2021 - UT Austin collaborates with Bosch to drive automated research Read More

Professor Peter Stone Named ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery

UT Computer Science Professor Peter Stone
01/13/2021 - The Association for Computing Machinery, the primary professional organization in the field of computer science, has named Professor Stone as an ACM Fellow. The award goes only to highly distinguished computer scientists representing the top 1% of ACM members. Read More

TXCS Alumnus Greg Kuhlmann Aims to Help Others Succeed by Making Anti-Fraud Systems More Accessible

TXCS alumnus Greg Kuhlman
12/01/2020 - Alumnus Greg Kuhlmann was introduced to computers and programming by his family at a young age. During Kuhlmann’s childhood, his grandfather taught him how to program on his VIC-20 when he was just six years old and his father would take him to Amiga Users Group meetings. The ability offered by programming to change bits of code and see a new outcome right before his eyes was what really drew Kuhlmann in. Unbeknownst to him, he would go on to earn a graduate degree in computer science and start his own cybersecurity startup. Read More

Leaving Their Mark

Game Night w ABCS & Quora

Photo credit - América Quistiano

11/11/2020 - Two UT undergraduate leaders talk about the Department of Computer Science’s new endowment and what it means for future students Read More

Tech Startup Powered by Two Computer Science Professors Teams Up with Intel

A visual representation of a graph containing epidemiological data.

A visual representation of a graph containing epidemiological data.

11/10/2020 - Industry analysts say that more data has been collected in the past two years than in all of human history combined. Data about what we buy, what we watch, where we go and who our friends are is constantly being collected and stored. Analyzing all that data and gaining insights from it is the hard part. Read More

Alumni Gift Launches New AI Institute

Zaib And Amir Husain Photo by: Sloan Breeden

Zaib And Amir Husain
Photo by: Sloan Breeden

11/06/2020 - This fall, the National Science Foundation selected The University of Texas at Austin — a world leader in artificial intelligence research — to lead a new, $20 million national institute for machine learning. Read More

Mission Accomplished

Anna Hiss Gym Ribbon Cutting
11/05/2020 - UT Austin is committed to working with the U.S. military to identify and prioritize research that can quickly be adapted to help protect and defend the nation’s interest. Read More

UT Scientists Use AI to Find Tourist Movement Patterns in Cuzco, Peru

10/28/2020 - We live in an increasingly digital era. Research shows that the average American checks their phone about 58 times daily, and spends an average of 4.5 hours a day on their phone. Without a doubt the amount of time the modern-day person spends on their phones has changed many aspects of how our society functions. For example, in the past decade we have seen a dramatic shift in forms of advertising. Read More

Artificial Intelligence Revs Up Evolution’s Clock (Audio)

Hyenas mobbing a lion

Photo credit: Stephanie Dloniak

10/14/2020 - Evolutionary biologists never have enough time. Some of the most mysterious behaviors in the animal kingdom—like parenting—evolved over thousands of years, if not longer. Human lifespans are just too short to sit and observe such complex behaviors evolve. But computer scientists are beginning to offer clues by using artificial intelligence to simulate the life and death of thousands of generations of animals in a matter of hours or days. It's called computational evolution. Read More

Mobile Robotics Lab Reaches Milestone in Campus-Scale Autonomous Navigation

The UT Campus-Jackal (left) and the UT Campus-Husky (right)

The UT Campus-Jackal (left) and the UT Campus-Husky (right)

10/06/2020 - A group of Texas Computer Science (TXCS) researchers from the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory (AMRL) comprising Joydeep Biswas, Sadegh Rabiee, Jarrett Holtz, Kavan Sikand, Max Svetlik, and John Bachman (UMass Amherst) have reached an incredible milestone in their research: deploying an autonomous robot that autonomously navigates on the campus-scale, resilient to everyd Read More

Predictive Science Research Gets Major Boost Thanks to the Department of Energy

Predictive science is crucial to the prediction and modeling of extreme weather. This is a visualization of predicted storm surge on the Louisiana coast caused by Hurricane Laura, the Category 4 Atlantic hurricane that struck Texan shores earlier this year. Credit: Computational Hydraulics Group, Oden Institute.

10/05/2020 - Source: College of Natural Sciences Many of the decisions we make are now guided by computational simulations, from designing new spacecraft to predicting the spread of a pandemic. But it's not enough for a simulation model to just issue predictions. A decision-maker needs to know just how much those predictions can be trusted. Read More

TXCS Alumna Barbara Jones Creates Tech Company Prioritizing a Diverse Work Environment

TXCS alumna Barbara Jones
09/14/2020 - Barbara Jones is no stranger to perseverance: the Texas Computer Science (TXCS) alumna, who graduated from the university in 1998, earned her degree at a time where “there were probably four Black people in the whole computer science department.” With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Jones has witnessed massive shifts in how the world grapples with diversity, new technologies, and how businesses operate. Read More

Students Across Programs Create Website to Encourage People to Eat Local

08/31/2020 - As COVID-19 continues to have a devastating effect on communities and economies, many people are wondering: How can I help? Beyond volunteering and direct monetary donations, there is a push for more people to eat from local restaurants. As the Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) decreases, it’s crucial for community-conscious people to support their neighborhood eateries and help keep these businesses afloat. Read More

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