Awards & Honors

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.

03/18/2025 - Assistant Professor Yuke Zhu has been named one of five IEEE’s Early Career Award winners for “groundbreaking contributions” in embodied artificial intelligence and robot learning.

03/04/2025 - PhD student Yeonju Ro received the 2024 IBM PhD Fellowship award with an endowment of $40,000. 

02/18/2025 - David J. Wu, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has received a Sloan Research Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes UT Austin as a leading public university and honors early-career researchers for their creativity and independent research. Wu specializes in cryptography, focusing on privacy-preserving systems and secure cloud computations that enable operations on encrypted data while ensuring confidentiality and authenticity.

02/05/2025 - Brent Waters, a cryptography professor in the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin, was recently named one of IEEE’s newest fellows.

01/02/2025 - Four undergraduate computer science researchers were recognized by the Computer Research Association in the 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award — the largest recognition of the department’s undergraduate research yet.

12/06/2024 - UT Austin ranked eighth in computer science and engineering globally in new report by ShanghaiRanking.

12/05/2024 - All four teams from the UT Programming Team finished top six, including taking first place, in the South Central USA Regional Competition of the International Collegiate Programming contest last month.

12/04/2024 - 2024 marks a pivotal year for Risto Miikkulainen, Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin, with several major achievements showcasing his leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) and neural networks. 

11/19/2024 - Mina Huh, a computer science Ph.D. student at UT Austin, has been awarded a Google Ph.D. Fellowship, the company announced on November 14.