Welcome
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is noted for research and teaching excellence.
Its internationally recognized faculty members are engaged in breakthrough research across the leading areas
of computer science and engineering.
The department's graduates work at America's leading companies and governmental agencies and in
other sectors. UTA's location in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex - one of the nation's two most influential technology
corridors - and strong relationship with major technology companies such as
Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Nokia, Sabre Holdings and Motorola provide students with outstanding
opportunities for internships and jobs.
Events
THURSDAY
July 10, 2:00 PM MS Defense: Aniket Pingley
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ICOMPS Workshop on June 18, 2008 Register Here
The Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2008), hosted by the University of Texas, Arlington, and sponsored in part, by the Department of CSE, is on October 17-18, 2008. For more information, click here.
NEW CSE COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEGREE Read More....
GREENROOF : TBA Work In Progress
SUMMER 2008 COURSES
Please visit the Full List for more information.
Graduate Student Openings for Fall 2008
View the Graduate Applications webpage for details. Please visit the
Research page for information on graduate research areas.
NEWS
NEW FACULTY HIRED
It is with great pleasure that we announce the hiring for Dr. Christoph Csallner as Assistant Professor in the CSE Department.
Dr. Csallner is an expert in software engineering and is working on software engineering problems, such as how to find software
bugs automatically or how to automatically infer program invariants.
He is an author of several research papers, for which he has received
two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards, one at ISSTA 2006 (the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis)
and another one at ASE 2007 (the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering).
He is a student of Yannis Smaragdakis and has also worked on software engineering issues for Google and Microsoft Research.
We are also pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. ByungMoon Kim. Dr. ByungMoon Kim received his Ph. D. in
Computer Science in 2006 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At the same school, he received his Master's
degrees in Aerospace Engineering in 1999, Computer Science in 2005, and Mathematics in 2005.
He received his bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering in Inha University, Inchon, Korea in 1994.
After receiving his Ph. D., he worked as a temporary professor in Mathematics at the
Georgia Institute of Technology to teach a class and to research fluid simulation and image processing.
After this, he joined NVIDIA Corp, where he worked on graphics device driver development,
real time graphics research, and physics simulations.
His research interests are in computer graphics, focusing on fluid simulation, geometry processing
such as mesh filtering and editing, and haptic devices. He is an author of papers on various topics:
mobile robot control, a spacecraft simulator, collision prediction, mesh editing, nonphotorealistic
video processing, a mesh filter, a realtime shadow algorithm, and fluid simulation.
We are also pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. Darin Brezeale
. Dr. Darin Brezeale received a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1992, an MS in Computer Science Engineering in
1999, an MA in Economics in 2002, and a PhD in Computer Science Engineering in 2007, all from the University of
Texas at Arlington. His professional experience includes working as an engineer for an electric company and as a
Unix system administrator for a telecom company. He has a variety of academic interests, including artificial
intelligence, math, and statistics
The First bigD* Regional Symposium on Data and Information Management
The Data Management Group in CSE Department is organizing the first bigD* Regional Symposium on Data and Information Management. The goal of this symposium is to foster the collaborations and interactions among a large number of research groups working on topics related to data and information management, in the universities and research institutes in Texas and nearby states. The name "bigD*" has been chosen as a pun (on BigD! used by the DFW Metroplex) to refer to all these research groups. The star in D* matches all the areas related to Data and Information Management, including Databases, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Data Visualization, Bioinformatics, and other related areas. The first bigD* regional symposium on data and information management is being hosted by the University of Texas at Arlington, on April 19, 2008. Following this, research institutes in the area will take turn to host this event annually or bi-annually. During the first symposium, an organization meeting is scheduled to take place, for discussions of future plan and the 2nd symposium. Read More. You cas see photos of symposum Here.
Dr. Fillia Makedon received a $500K grant from the National Science Foundation
Dr. Fillia Makedon has received a $500K grant from the National Science Foundation as the
principle investigator to study trustworthy recommendation systems.
Recommendation systems have played a role with increasing importance and prominence in various
online systems, particularly ones related to electronic commerce. These systems are used as a
means of reducing "information overload" for users by filtering a potentially overwhelming
number of options (such as all the products available from a seller) to identify those calculated
to be of greatest interest.
This project extends research on collaborative recommendation systems, which base recommendations
for an individual on the preferences expressed by other people, by investigating the problem of
malicious manipulation of these systems.
Dr. Makedon is the chairperson of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the
director of the Heracleia Human-Centered Computing Lab at UTA. She is collaborating with
researchers at the University of California at Davis on this project.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Chengkai Li has received a $10,000 Research Enhancement Program Grant
University of Texas at Arlington Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Chengkai Li has received a $10,000 Research Enhancement Program grant to conduct research on problems associated with mashing up information on the Web.
The goal of this research is to build a system that automatically “mashes up” the Web to construct a database containing records and their relationships discovered from Web pages. The system would allow us to use the Web as the world’s largest database, thus bring the power of database queries to the Web and enable many expressive and powerful applications.
Today’s state-of-art technologies cannot meet the goals in this research, thus the project presents a significant research challenge. Dr. Li plans to develop techniques to automatically extract Web data and discover their relationships, and invent new ways of storing and indexing such information, which is very different from the precise and complete information found in conventional database systems. Dr. Li will also investigate the issues in providing querying and exploration facilities over such information.
By realizing the “mash-up” system and applications, this research has the potential to fundamentally change our ways of using the Web and substantially improve our ability of finding and exploring information. It can enormously benefit many application domains including E-commerce, government information systems, public health, travel planning services, and so on.
1st International Coference On PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA 2008
The PETRA Conference brings together different types of technology to address an important social and healthcare issue: as the world's population ages, there is growing interest in solutions for the in- home care of the elderly as well as for the care of people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other disabilities or traumas. PETRA (which means "stone" in Greek) reflects the needs of the domestic environment, or "Oikos" as it was known in ancient Greece, but from a technological perspective. People's living environments are particularly important in an increasingly crowded and complex world where the need for inclusiveness and connectivity with the rest of the world is key. PETRA addresses the fact that, as people grow older, they will increasingly rely on technology to be able to stay in their homes.
Read More.NSF DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM STUDENT-AUTHOR TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS
We expect NSF funding to support a number of graduate student authors to participate in PETRA'08.
Funding will be made available of up to $1500 per student to cover his or her expenses. Women and
minorities are encouraged to apply. It is expected that the student's institution will cover the
remaining expenses.
To apply, a student must be attending a US institution and must be author of a submitted paper
to PETRA and submit the completed application form, attach a letter of support from his/her advisor,
and a resume.
The deadline for this is May 20, 2008. All students awarded of such a travel award will be named
PETRA-SCHOLARS and their names will become part of the conference proceedings.
8th Annual High School Robot Programming Contest Lets Students Show Off Their Skills At UTA
Little yellow robots buzzed around the Nedderman Hall atrium at the University of Texas at
Arlington on Saturday, February 9th, 2008. The robots were programmed and built by high
school students to compete in the High School Robot Programming Contest, RoPro, sponsored
by the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UTA (CSE@UTA). Twenty-two teams from
nine area high schools competed in this annual outreach and recruiting event. New teams
competed in the speed-based beginning maze competition where the robot does not know the
course beforehand. More experienced teams competed in the advanced maze competition where
“virtual” walls, made of colored tape on the floor, had to be treated just like the wooden
walls and in the object finding competition where robots must locate, identify and the move
colored golf balls within the maze.
The twenty-two participating teams came from high schools including Arlington, Sam Houston,
and James Bowie from Arlington ISD, the Science and Engineering Magnet and the Talented
and Gifted Magnet from Dallas ISD, DeSoto High School from DeSoto ISD, Granbury High School
from Granbury ISD, a Texas charter school, and area home schools. Every Lego robot was
programmed by the students to work autonomously in its event. Once started, the robot
was under its own control following the instructions programmed into it. No remote controls
here! Read More.
Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad becomes a Fellow of the IEEE
Dec 21, University of Texas at Arlington Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Ishfaq Ahmad has been elevated to the rank of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics
Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Ahmad, who had been a Senior Member of the organization, was recognized for
his contributions to scheduling techniques in parallel and distributed computing systems.
Recognition as a Fellow by the IEEE signifies an individual's accomplishments that have contributed
importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the
realization of significant value to society. Awards presented to individuals conducting work outside
the normal areas of electronics are unusual. Read More.
$265K Department of Justice Grant for Personnel Locator Research
Nov 1, The CommTech Program in the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Department of
Justice, has awarded researchers in the Computer Science & Engineering Department
a $264,879 grant to develop a mesh network based solution to identify and locate
strategic personnel within a secure area such as a police precinct.
Assistant Professor Gergely Zaruba is the principal investigator on the project; he will be assisted
by Drs. Manfred Huber and Farhad Kamangar and Mr. David Levine. Titled "PLR: Mesh-networked, Two-way
Personnel Locator Radios and Relays," the project involves the development of a software and hardware
system needed to accurately track a number of individuals as they move about an established
area.
"As a research exercise, we developed and have a patent pending on a similar solution,"
said Dr. Zaruba. "Our efforts for the National Institutes of Justice will build on the earlier work
to create the tags identifying essential personnel and the software analyzing the many signals within
the network to distinguish specific individuals."
The "essential personnel" he refers to could include team leaders, directors and other senior
officials, police officers and in the second part of the project, first-responders such as emergency
medical technicians and search-and-rescue personnel. "This is an important technology to help save
lives of our nation’s emergency personnel," said Dr. Richard Billo, College of Engineering associate
dean for research. "For example, if an officer or firefighter becomes trapped in a building, others
will know the exact location and will be better prepared to take immediate action."
Although this grant is for a one-year period, Dr. Zaruba expects an additional one-year extension
grant around the same amount to expand the personnel locator network to other NIJ applications.
$900,000 NSF Grant For Technology To Study American Sign Language
Oct 29, Assistant Professor Vassilis Athitsos and his collaborators have been awarded
a three-year, $900,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop new technology for learning American Sign Language (ASL).
The research will focus on designing novel computer vision and machine learning methods for automatic sign recognition.
The project is titled "Large Lexicon Gesture Representation, Recognition, and Retrieval." It is
led by Professors Stan Sclaroff and Carol Neidle at Boston University, and Professor Vassilis
Athitsos at UT Arlington.
In current ASL dictionaries, signs are typically organized according to their English
translation, and a user cannot look up a sign without knowing in advance the meaning of
that sign. A key goal of the project is to develop methods that would allow users to
demonstrate signs in front of a camera and have a computer look up the meaning of those signs
based on their visual properties. The BU and UTA researchers also hope to develop a way to
perform "keyword-based" searches for American Sign Language, by identifying occurrences of
specific signs in large video databases of ASL literature.
Read More
Professor Sajal Das wins IEEE Engineer of the Year Award
Oct 14, Dr. Sajal Das was awarded the "IEEE Engineer of the Year Award" by the
IEEE Ft. Worth Section during the Metrocom 2007 Conference held in Arlington.
This award recognizes the recipient's leadership and technical contributions in engineering,
community and societal activities.