06/18/2026 - The soccer field in UT Austin's Gates-Dell Complex is smaller than what you’d see in the FIFA World Cup. The goals are low, the turf a little worn, and the players are less than four feet tall. But don't let the modest setup fool you. What's happening here is university research that sits at the intersection of robotics and artificial intelligence. And year after year, the team proves that smaller, smarter autonomous systems can reach great heights.Read More
06/17/2026 - Lili Qiu, professor of Computer Science and a leader in AI systems, wireless sensing, and real-world intelligence, was awarded a Test-of-Time award by ACM SIGMOBILE for her 2003 paper: Impact of Interference on Multi-hop Wireless Network Performance, along with co-authors Kamal Jain, Jitendra Padhye, and Venkata N. Padmanabhan. Read More
06/11/2026 - When Ramakrishna Garine sat through executive meetings, waiting days or sometimes weeks for scenario analyses to arrive from data teams, he kept coming back to the same question: why can't this be faster? Read More
06/09/2026 - Arushi Sharma is a computer science and math double major at UT Austin. After interning at Amazon the summer before her senior year, she secured a return offer as a software engineer at their Seattle headquarters. She sat down to talk about what surprised her at UT Computer Science (UTCS), what sets the program apart, and what she'd tell anyone hoping to follow a similar path. Read More
06/05/2026 - Surbhi Goel is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she joined in 2023 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Microsoft Research New York. She completed her PhD at UT Austin Computer Science (UTCS) in 2020, working at the intersection of theory and machine learning. This year, she was awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Computer Science: one of only 22 early-career computer scientists selected across the US and Canada.Read More
05/28/2026 - Joseph Turcios is a graduating UTCS senior who’s about to join Visa as a software engineer. A first-generation college student who spent his youth remodeling houses with his father, Joseph was drawn to computer science by a desire to build things—inspired by everything from construction blueprints to the high-tech world of Iron Man. As he prepares to move into his new career in the Austin Domain, he reflects on the journey from opening his application to landing his dream role. Read More
05/14/2026 - IN BRIEF: Prof. Raymond J. Mooney is retiring after nearly 40 years as a leading AI figure at UT Austin. A prolific researcher, he published more than 200 papers and earned fellowships from the most prestigious professional organizations in his field. Mooney plans to spend his retirement writing a popular science book that chronicles the 60-year history of natural language processing, tracing the science back to its 1951 origins.Read More
