The ACMW Book Club will meet several times in the Spring 2015 semester to discuss the book, "Bossy Pants" by Tina Fey. Participants will receive a complimentary book. We will also cover the cost of meals during the meetings. Meetings will be scheduled by polling interested students for input on the meeting time. Please find more details at: http://untacmw.weebly.com/book-club-2015.html.
Interested students should contact: unt.acmw@gmail.com.
Happy New Year and welcome to the UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering for the Spring 2015 semester! Please join me in welcoming our new faculty member, Dr. Robin Pottathuparambil. You may find out more about him on our website. At the same time we bid farewell and best wishes to departing faculty Dr. Qunfeng Dong and Dr. Mahadevan Gomathisankaran. We are recruiting this semester for a new faculty member in the computer systems area and will be looking to replace Drs. Dong and Gomathisankaran as quickly as possible.
If you are graduating next year with an outstanding academic record, I encourage you to consider the Grad Track for undergraduate students in Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs. Students who are admitted to Grad Track can enroll in up to nine credit hours of 5000-level graduate courses which will count toward BOTH the undergraduate degree and Master's degree. This will allow students to complete both the B. S. and M. S. degrees in five years. More details may be found here. If you are graduating in Spring 2015, it is not too late to apply for our M. S. or Ph. D. programs. For more information on these programs, see here or contact Stephanie Deacon, our Graduate Administrative Assistant.
We will have three distinguished speakers this semester, including experts in domain-specific programming languages and computer security. Please check this website and the student email newsletters that we'll be sending out during the semester for information on our planned activities this semester. Good luck with all of your classes!
Barrett Bryant
CSE Chair
The regional competition for high school students to participate in the North American Computational
Linguistics OlympiadNACLO 2015 will take place on Thursday,
January 29, 2015. The HiLT Lab in the UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering will be hosting the competition.
UNT’s NACLO enrollment is in the top six in North America, along with
Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, Columbia University,
University of Maryland, and University of Toronto.
NACLO is an educational competition in Computational Linguistics, the science of designing computer algorithms to solve linguistic problems. It challenges students to develop strategies for tackling problems in real languages and formal symbolic systems. Dr. Rodney Nielsen, Associate Professor, and Genene Murphy, CSE Staff, will supervise this event, along with HiLT PhD students Nishitha Guntakandla and Wes Solomon and undergraduate lab assistant Erin Eversoll. Thanks to Dr. Ian Parberry for allowing his lab to be used for the competition. More information is available at this HiLT Lab News & Events page.
The UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering and The National
Convergence Technology Center (an NSF Center hosted by Collin College,
Frisco, TX) will host the Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking and Security
(HoNeST) on Friday,
March 27, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm at the Ericsson, Inc. campus in the
Austin Conference Room, 6300 Legacy Drive, Plano, TX.
Speakers from area Faculty, Graduate Students, and Industry Professionals are all welcome and encouraged to participate and attend. Please submit proposed session titles and abstracts to the Program Chair, Dr. Ram Dantu by February 1. Final notification to presenters will be made by March 1, 2015.
Dr. Ram Dantu, CSE Professor and Director of the UNT Network Security Lab is the Conference and Program Chair. David Keathly, CSE Principal Lecturer and Co-PI National Convergence Technology Center, is the Proceedings and Publicity Chair. Both Dr. Dantu and Mr. Keathly are on the Steering Committee, along with CSE Lecturer Dr. Mark Thompson.
The UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering will offer a
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Summer 2015. Dr. Renee
Bryce and Dr. Hassan Takabi are the directors of this program that focuses
on "Secure Software Testing for Mobile and Web Applications." No prior
research experience is required and we particularly encourage more
applicants from 4-year colleges that have limited research opportunities at
their universities to apply. Students may apply for paid positions,
including a stipend, housing and relocation at this website.
On February 13, Professor Marjan Mernik
from the University of Maribor in Slovenia will be our first Distinguished Speaker 0f 2015. His topic will be
"A Parameter Control Method of Evolutionary Algorithms Using Exploration and Exploitation Measures".
He is on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Institute of Computer Science and directs the
Programming Methodologies Lab at the University of Maribor. He is also a Visiting Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia.
The UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering in collaboration with The National Convergence Technology Center (an NSF Center hosted by Collin College, Frisco, TX) will host the Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking and Security (HoNeST) on Friday, March 27, from 9 am to 5 pm at the Ericsson, Inc. campus in the Austin Conference Room, 6300 Legacy Drive, Plano, TX.
The keynote speakers include Jeremy Epstein from NSF and Henning Schulzrinne from FCC. The sessions include talks from service providers and network equipment manufacturers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Cisco, Ericsson and Huawei Technologies. Follow the link for free registration. http://www.cse.unt.edu/honest
TAMS Student Aditya Vaidya is working with CSE faculty member Dr. Armin R. Mikler, Director of the UNT Computational Epidemiology Research Lab (CERL), on a computer model
that could help epidemiologists better manage mosquito-borne illness outbreaks. Aditya presented his research at the ACM Conference on
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics in Fall 2014 and is now featured in this NBC DFW news story. He is also preparing to play his first concert at Carnegie Hall!
On February 20, Steven K. Reinhardt, Senior Fellow at AMD Research, will be our second Distinguished Speaker. His presentation will be on Heterogeneous Systems: Today and Tomorrow. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been at AMD since 2008, directing research in the areas of high-speed networking, memory hierarchy designs, and on-chip interconnects. Previously, Steve was an associate professor in the EECS department at the University of Michigan, where he was a full-time faculty member from 1997 to 2006. At Michigan, he led research in memory-system architecture, networking, reliability, processor microarchitecture, multithreading, and system simulation.
The seminar will held at 11:30 am in NTDP F223, the main CSE conference room. Everyone is invited to attend! If you would like to meet Dr. Reinhardt, contact Dr. Krishna Kavi.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering welcomes Elisa Bertino,
Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University, as our next Distinguished Speaker on Friday, March 6. Her presentation will be on Big Data Security and Privacy. She is the Research Director of The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security CERIAS at Purdue University. Her main research interests cover many areas in the fields of information security and database systems. Her research combines both
theoretical and practical aspects, addressing as well applications in a number of domains, such as medicine and humanities. The seminar will held at 11:30 am in NTDP F223. Everyone is invited to attend!
On Friday, March 27, the UNT Center for Information and Computer Security will host a Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking and Security (HoNeST) from 9 am to 5 pm at the Ericsson, Inc. campus in the Austin Conference Room, 6300 Legacy Drive, Plano, TX. More than 250 people have already registered for this event. To find out more about this workshop, please this website.
The UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering is home to the Center for Information and Computer Security which has been designated a National Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Ram Dantu, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, directs the interdisciplinary Center at UNT. For more information about UNT’s cybersecurity program, see this UNT press release.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering welcomes Dr. Ellen Riloff, Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing at the University of Utah as our final guest speaker for Spring 2015 on Friday, April 17, 2015. Her presentation will be "Bootstrapped Learning of Affective Indicators in Social Media Text." Her primary research areas are information extraction, semantics, sentiment analysis, and coreference resolution. A major emphasis of her research has been automatically acquiring the knowledge needed for natural language processing using bootstrapping methods that learn from unannotated texts. The seminar will be held at 11:30 am in NTDP F223. Everyone is invited to attend!
Undergraduate students in capstone classes from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering will present their projects at the UNT College of Engineering’s Design Day on Friday, April 24, 2015. The Design Day program will begin with poster presentations on the 1st and 2nd level hallways in Discovery Park from 9 to 11 am. Following the poster presentations, each department will have project presentations. Computer Engineering and Information Technology capstone class projects will be presented by teams of students beginning at 11:30 am in D215. Everyone is invited to attend!
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering congratulates these outstanding CSE students:
Outstanding Doctoral Student in Computer Science and Engineering – Patrick Kamongi
Outstanding Master’s Student in Computer Engineering – Ajith Loka
Outstanding Master’s Student in Computer Science – Deepankar Mohapatra
Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Computer Engineering – Kevin James
Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Computer Science – Logan Widick
Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Information Technology – Garren Wilson
Outstanding Computer Science and Engineering Sophomore Student Award – Kathryn Malone-Miller
Outstanding Computer Science and Engineering Freshman Student Award – Tanner Van De Walle
Outstanding Teaching Fellow – David Adamo, Jr.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant – Longbo Kong
These students were recognized at the UNT Honors Day on April 10 and at our CSE Department lunch on May 1. For pictures of our department event, please visit this media gallery page.
Computer Science degrees from the UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering ranked fourth in the country for the best annual return on investment value by PayScale.com. According to their website, UNT computer science degrees have a 13.5 percent annual return on investment. Computer science majors have the best 20-year return on
investment out of all the degrees ranked by the website because of the high earning potential a computer science degree warrants in today’s technology-driven world, according to PayScale.com’s report.
CSE Chair Barrett Bryant said, "It is excellent news that our computer science program has been nationally recognized for its value by PayScale.com. We are very proud of our many alumni who have contributed to this recognition through their success."
The UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering was founded in 1971. Its undergraduate programs are accredited by ABET. Faculty in the CSE Department have been recognized by the National Science Foundation, the Association of Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. For more information, see this UNT press release.
Congratulations go to the Computer Science and Engineering Spring Graduates. A full list of our graduates can be seen here.
The UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering welcomes Dr. Ray Mooney, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Texas at Austin, on as our Guest Speaker on Friday, June 26, 2015. His presentation will be on Learning Probabilistic Scripts for Text Understanding. Dr. Mooney received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He is the author of over 150 published research papers, primarily in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing. His presentation will be held at 11:30 am in NTDP F223. Everyone is invited to attend!
The CSE Department January 2015 Student and Alumni Email Newsletters have been sent. You can view the student newsletter online 