Computer Science

UT Austin Launches New School of Computing

February 19, 2026 • by Staff Writer

New school will unite key strengths to establish a center of excellence, strengthening interdisciplinary research and preparing talent for a rapidly changing economy.

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UT News

Ken McMillan Among Longhorns Newly Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

February 10, 2026 • by Nat Levy

UT computer scientist Ken McMillan has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering.

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UT News

Marching Forward: How UT is Shaping the Future of Robotics

January 23, 2026 • by Staff Writer

The annual Robot Parade showcases innovative research across all of Texas Robotics, including a new honors program.

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Department of Computer Science

UT Austin Becomes an AI Research Powerhouse with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

January 22, 2026 • by Karen Davidson

The new hardware will be a game-changer to expand cutting-edge artificial intelligence research at UT Austin.

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Accolades

Computer Scientist Kristen Grauman Wins Hill Prize in Artificial Intelligence

January 16, 2026 • by Staff Writer

The Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science & Technology and Lyda Hill Philanthropies support the awards.

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Department of Computer Science

Adaptive Anatomy: 3D Models That Fit Every Form

December 19, 2025 • by Karen Davidson

UT computer scientists are leading a new effort to improve the way AI represents structures of animals and humans.

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UT Bridging Barriers

Cross-Cutting Edge: Good Systems Scholar Refines Alignment Research

November 24, 2025 • by Michael Wolman

Brad Knox, a UT computer scientist, focuses on ensuring AI systems act in ways that reflect human values.

A man holds a microphone and speaks to a group, in front of a banner that reads "Good Systems: A UT Grand Challenge Designing AI technologies that benefit society is our grand challenge" and a slide titled "AI systems that understand what humans want" as a cartoon girl's thought bubble reads "hidden state" and arrows pointing to the words dataset and estimate of hidden state are labeled "human input by psychological process" and "inverse algorithm derived from model of psychological process"

Announcements

UT Doubles Size of Powerful AI Computing Hub

November 10, 2025 • by Staff Writer

Already among the most powerful AI hubs of its kind, a UT center for AI is set to have 1,000 advanced GPUs soon.

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UT Amazon Science Hub

Amazon Awards 15 UT Graduate Students AI Ph.D. Fellowships

October 21, 2025 • by Staff Writer

UT Austin had 15 Ph.D. candidates selected as fellows campus-wide, with most studying computer science.

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Accolades

Three College of Natural Sciences Faculty Win NSF CAREER Awards

August 13, 2025 • by Sowmya Sridhar and Staci Norman

The award, recognizing early-career faculty, will support research in computer science and physics.