Category: Research

Vijay Garg, UT Austin, to Present Lecture Feb. 19, 3 pm

This lecture has been canceled. Dr. Vijay Garg, University of Texas Austin, will present a lecture on February 19, 2021, at 3:00 p.m. The lecture is hosted by the Department of Computer Science. Vijay Garg Bio Vijay Garg is a Cullen Trust Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University . . .

Registration Open for Graduate Research Colloquium

by Graduate Student Government Registration for this year’s virtual Graduate Research Colloquium (GRC) is open. Due to the continuation of the SARS-CoV-19 pandemic, the GRC will be held virtually on Thursday and Friday, April 1and 2. The GRC is a great opportunity to work on your presentation skills and prepare for upcoming conferences. Students are . . .

EET Senior Design Project to Help Child Rest Easy

By Karen S. Johnson, Communications Director, College of Computing Read Part II of this article, “EET Motorized Swing Senior Project: The Students.” Professor Alex Sergeyev, Applied Computing, was reading an American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Engineering Technology Division magazine last summer when he saw an article that prompted an idea for an Electrical Engineering . . .

Yakov Nekrich Paper Accepted for Top Computing Conference

A publication by Associate Professor Yakov Nekrich, Computer Science, has been accepted to the 53rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC). The paper, “Optimal-Time Dynamic Planar Point Location in Connected Subdivisions,” describes an optimal-time solution for the dynamic point location problem and answers an open problem in computational geometry.  The data structure described in the . . .

Spend 1010 with Dean Dennis Livesay, Feb. 17, 5:30 pm

You are invited to spend one-zero-one-zero—that is, ten—minutes with Dr. Dennis Livesay on Wednesday, February 17, from 5:30 to 5:40 p.m. EST. Dr. Livesay is the Dave House Dean of Computing and a professor in the Department of Applied Computing. In this informal discussion, Dean Livesay will talk about his journey from chemist to engineer . . .