Computer Science
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- 2026
- 04/23/26 Remembering Professor Emeritus Olin Johnson
- 04/08/26 University of Houston Researcher Uncovers the Mathematical Signature of Fair Competition
- 03/25/26 Bryan Tuck’s Research Tackles Hidden Vulnerabilities in Artificial Intelligence
- 01/06/26 AI and Data Science Showcase Winners Spotlight Health & Environment Challenges
- 2025
- 12/22/25 Meng-Chen (Martin) Lee Recognized for Award-Winning Multimodal Interaction Research
- 12/19/25 NSM Celebrates 677 Graduates at Fall 2025 Commencement
- 12/19/25 Rabimba Karanjai Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award for Fall 2025
- 12/18/25 NSM Computer Scientists Earn Distinguished Paper Award for AI Tool That Detects and Repairs Code in Real Time
- 11/10/25 Computer Science Doctoral Students Shine at International AI Conference
- 11/05/25 University of Houston Reaffirmed as National Center of Cybersecurity Excellence
- 10/15/25 Touching Your Face May Reveal Hidden Stress, University of Houston Study Finds
- 08/15/25 Computer Science Ph.D. Student Earns Awards for Artificial Intelligence
- 08/01/25 UH Computer Scientist Wins Best Paper Award at Prestigious PODC Conference
- 07/21/25 UH Researchers to Develop AI to Aid in Emergency Food Distribution
- 06/09/25 New Dean Named for College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- 05/13/25 Computer Science Ph.D. Graduate Vuong Dustin Nguyen Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 05/13/25 Yang Lu Earns International Recognition for Cybersecurity Research at ACM Applied Computing Symposium
- 05/01/25 NSM Professor to Lead Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
- 02/27/25 NASA Grant Awarded to UH NSM Alumnus
- 2024
- 10/25/24 Guoning Chen Honored with the NSM John C. Butler Excellence in Teaching Award
- 08/14/24 Innovative Graduate Research Shines at Summer Showcase
- 2023
- 12/21/23 Computer Science Professors Pandurangan, Pavlidis Earn IEEE Fellow Status
- 12/18/23 Computer Science Students and Alum Have Key Roles in Fall Commencement
- 11/09/23 Computer Science Researchers Use Machine Learning to Identify and Predict Cyberattacks
- 07/05/23 Researchers Find Hidden Micro-Stressors in Routine Driving
- 04/24/23 Fear Not the Deadlines, New Research Finds
- 04/20/23 Researchers Develop Safety Monitoring System for Construction Sites
- 04/03/23 New UH Project Combats Food Insecurity Through AI
- 03/13/23 Computational Physiology Lab Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary
- 02/14/23 Two NSM Professors Named Senior Members of National Academy of Inventors
- 2022
- 12/14/22 Computer Scientists Examine Impact of Workplace Scheduling on Economic Activity
- 12/07/22 Artificial Intelligence is Changing How Students Learn
- 12/07/22 Computer Science Alumnus Appointed Dean of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte
- 11/03/22 AI System to Predict Patients at Higher Risk for Diabetes Complications
- 06/27/22 Science by Cyborg Teams: Destiny of Science Modeled and Explained in New Study
- 05/19/22 Thomas Carroll Awarded UH Undergraduate Student Employee of the Year
- 05/06/22 Nouhad Rizk Named 2022 Piper Professor
- 04/12/22 CAREER Award Ignites Computer Scientist’s Research and Outreach Goals
- 02/16/22 Doctoral Student Lands Second Internship with NASA
- 2021
- 12/15/21 Zhigang Deng Named ACM Distinguished Member
- 12/07/21 Department of Education Funds Development of Cybersecurity Faculty
- 11/23/21 Real-Time COVID-19 Infection Risk Assessment
- 09/27/21 Ph.D. Computer Science Student Awarded DAAD RISE Professional Scholarship
- 09/23/21 Holding Algorithms Responsible in Public Policy
- 09/21/21 Deng Awarded Moores Professorship
- 09/21/21 Developing Strategies to Increase Access to Electric Vehicles
- 07/26/21 Meet Estefannie: YouTuber and Computer Science Alum
- 07/22/21 Training the Next Generation of ‘CyberCops’
- 06/15/21 Professor Featured in WalletHub’s Best Cities for Gamers Article
- 05/10/21 Does Driving Wear You Out? You Might Be Experiencing ‘Accelerousal’
- 04/20/21 Nouhad Rizk Receives Teaching Excellence Award for Community Engagement
- 02/22/21 Albert Cheng Earns Top Honors from Computer Science Community
- 01/20/21 A Desire to Teach and Help: Computer Science Student Undertakes Video Project
- 01/14/21 Destination: United States Space Force
- 2020
- 10/12/20 Researchers are Taking Aim at the Counterfeit Drug and Medical Supplies Market
- 09/24/20 Help for Nepal: UH Volunteers Create Free Video Lessons for Children During Pandemic
- 09/23/20 Staying One Step Ahead to Stop Hackers in their Tracks
- 09/10/20 Nikhil Navkar’s Career Path into Medical Technologies
- 08/18/20 Computer Science Professor Studies Pandemic’s Effect on Transit
- 08/13/20 Computer Science REU Program Adjusts to Fully Online Learning
- 07/20/20 UH Computer Science Skills Lead to Visa and Amazon Internships, Job
- 05/26/20 UH Addresses Shortage of Computer Science, Technology and Physics Teachers
- 05/11/20 Multitasking in the Workplace Can Lead to Negative Emotions
- 03/11/20 Artificial Intelligence and Family Medicine: Better Together
- 02/25/20 Scholar Plot: Measuring Faculty Academic Performance
- 02/21/20 ICPC South Central Regional Programming Competition Hosted by UH
- 02/11/20 Students, Faculty Receive Awards from Computer Science Department
- 02/07/20 UH Computer Science Students Dominate Code for Good
- 02/05/20 Albert Cheng Chosen as Fulbright Specialist and ACM Distinguished Speaker
- 01/21/20 Research from UH Computer Science: Out of the Lab and into Popular Use
- 2019
- 11/21/19 Exposing Office Distractions and Effects on Worker Productivity
- 11/04/19 Recent Ph.D. Graduate and Advisor Receive Honorable Mention at Conference
- 10/30/19 Blockchain Offers Promise for Securing Global Supply Chain
- 10/28/19 Two-Time Twitter Intern, Cash DeLeon
- 10/18/19 UH Among the Best in Key Areas of Computer Science
- 09/04/19 A Critical Toolkit for the 21st Century: UH Offers Data Science Minor
- 09/02/19 Shishir Shah Begins Tenure as Chair of Computer Science
- 08/28/19 NSM Professors Receive American Educational Research Association Award
- 08/26/19 TIP Grant Funds Development of Introductory Computer Programming Courses
- 07/31/19 Computer Science Graduate Student Has Paper Accepted at ACL 2019
- 07/23/19 Rizk Selected for Open Educational Resources Alternative Textbook Incentive Program Grant
- 05/28/19 Enabling Simulations: Hexahedral Mesh Generation
- 05/06/19 Computer Science Alumnus Receives Fulbright Scholarship
- 04/23/19 Computer Science Graduate Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 04/09/19 Competing in a Data-Driven World
- 03/26/19 Computer Science Graduate Student Named Snap Research Fellow
- 02/11/19 Stress-free Training May Enhance Surgical Skill
- 01/28/19 NSF Small Business Grant Funds Educational Video Company
- 01/10/19 Computer Science Grad Student Wins Award at Major International Conference
- 2018
- 11/16/18 The Perfect Movie: Recommendations to Suit the Mood
- 11/14/18 UH Receives $1.7 Million to Educate More Computer Science Teachers
- 11/05/18 Phishing Attempts After Harvey: A UH Survey
- 08/15/18 Computer Science Student Awarded Two Conference Scholarships
- 08/15/18 How Gene Hunting Changed the Culture of Science
- 06/01/18 CS Alum Receives Tenure-Track Position
- 05/17/18 Moving Supply Chain Industry Forward with Blockchain Technology
- 04/19/18 Image-Guided Robot-Assisted Surgeries
- 03/12/18 Computer Science’s Subramaniam: 50 Lectures in His 50th Year
- 01/10/18 Cryptocurrency as Money of the Future
- 2017
- 12/06/17 Facial Recognition Systems
- 11/30/17 Knowledge Discovery: Making Sense of Big Data
- 10/09/17 Spotting the Fake Reviews: Deceptive Opinion Spam
- 08/15/17 Signs of Distracted Driving – Pounding Heart, Sweaty Nose
- 07/21/17 Smart Contracts: Building a Trusted System in an Untrusted World
- 07/20/17 UH Researcher Working to Make Security Cameras 'Smarter'
- 06/01/17 Computer Science Undergraduate and Friends Qualify for NASA Robotics Finals
- 05/25/17 Deng Receives Best Paper Award at Computer Animation Conference
- 05/16/17 Under Cyber Attack: UH Researchers Look at How to Catch a 'Phisher'
- 05/10/17 CS Chair and Prof Jaspal Subhlok Explores the Unknown
- 05/08/17 Rizk Honored for Teaching Excellence
- 05/04/17 Ph.D. Student Xingliang Zou to Receive Outstanding Paper Award
- 03/01/17 Quantifying Eye Contact During Conversations
- 2016
- 10/21/16 Forecasting the Spread of Diseases: Providing Speed
- 10/13/16 UH Researcher Contributes to Popular Software Package Open MPI 2.0.0
- 09/22/16 UH Startup Earns Commercialization Grant for New Technology
- 06/06/16 Chen Receives 2016 NSM Junior Faculty Research Award
- 05/12/16 A Sixth Sense Protects Drivers Except When Texting
- 05/12/16 Yun Receives UH Teaching Excellence Award for Instructional Faculty
- 03/23/16 NATO Taps UH Professor to Keep Big Data Secure on the Cloud
- 03/22/16 Solorio, Computer Science Professor, Seeks to Solve Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution
- 03/07/16 UH Moment: Recommended Reading
- 03/01/16 Living in a World Without Passwords
- 02/26/16 Guoning Chen: NSF CAREER Award Recipient
- 02/02/16 NSF Grant to Fund Development of New Book Recommendation Technology
- 2015
- 11/16/15 Hackers Gonna Hack: UH Gets $2.6M to Protect Next-Gen 911 Centers
- 11/12/15 Students and Faculty Attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
- 10/12/15 DHS S&T Awards University of Houston $2.6M for Cyber Security Research
- 08/25/15 Total Donates High-Speed Computer Cluster to UH
- 06/26/15 UH Computer Science Professor Sees Responsibilities and Possibilities in Nepal
- 06/03/15 UH Receives $1.2 Million for STEM Scholarships
- 05/22/15 UH Named Center of Excellence for Work on Cyber Defense
- 04/17/15 UH Students Earn Spot as Finalists in National Microsoft Contest
- 04/02/15 Computer Science and Computer Information Systems Students Win at AITP National Collegiate Conference
- 02/04/15 UH Computer Science Gets Homeland Security Funding to Fight Bioterror
- 01/26/15 New Supercomputer Allows for Massive Data Analysis in Less Time
- 2014
- 11/11/14 UH Receives $1.5M Grant to Prepare Future Cybersecurity Workers
- 09/09/14 Thamar Solorio Receives Emerging Leader Award
- 08/27/14 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Celebrates 10 Years
- 08/15/14 Flow-Cal Expands Their Partnership with UH Computer Science
- 07/07/14 UH Computer Graphics Research: New Method Automates Skeletal Design for Character Animation
- 05/08/14 UH Game Design Team Selected for Microsoft Imagine Cup World Semifinals
- 05/01/14 International Computer Graphics Conference to be Held at University of Houston
- 02/17/14 Verma's Research Targets Detection of Phishing Emails and Opinion Spam
- 2011
- 06/14/11 UH Wins 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in Imagine Cup 2011 US Finals
- 03/17/11 UH Computational Physiology Lab (CPL) Awarded NSF Grant on Improving Human Engagement and Enjoyment in Routine Activities
- 03/17/11 UH Computational Physiology Lab (CPL) Awarded Two Federal Contracts to Develop Imaging and Computational Technology to Identify Humans and Determine Their Intent
- 03/01/11 Prof. Albert M. K. Cheng Appointed the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers, the Flagship Journal of the IEEE Computer Society
- 2010
- 10/20/10 Dr. Vilalta and Dr. Tosic are the Recipients of an Industrial Grant from Halliburton Energy Services
- 10/14/10 Exxonmobil Scholarships Awarded to 17 Undergraduate Computer Science Students
- 10/08/10 US Department of Education Award to provide Fellowships to Computer Science PhD Students
- 10/06/10 October 8 Computer Science PhD Showcase Event
- 08/09/10 Dr. Eick Receives Faculty Research Award from Yahoo!
- 07/02/10 NSF Awards Grant to Support Systems Research at UH
- 06/25/10 Dr. Rong Zheng Wins the 2010 University of Houston Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship at the Assistant Professor Level
- 05/27/10 Computer Science Celebrates Achievements of Undergrads and Grads
- 05/05/10 Computer Science Graduate Student and 2009 REU participant Wins National Science Foundation Research Fellowship
- 04/16/10 Computer Science Student Wins 2010 Graduate Research Competition in ACM CHI 2010
- 04/14/10 CougarCS Calling all Coders for Coding Competition
- 03/30/10 CPL Publishes Four Papers at ACM CHI Conference
- 2009
- 10/07/09 Computational Biomedicine Lab Publication Chosen as a Best-Reviewed Paper at BTAS 2009
- 09/29/09 Miss Yan Zhou, PhD student in the Computational Physiology Lab, bags a poster paper award at the prestigious MICCAI 2009 Conference
- 04/01/09 Presentation on Developing Application for iPhone and iPod, April 1st
- 03/24/09 UH CS and Hightower High School Team Up to Teach Alice to AP Students
- 02/11/09 Collaborative Research On Improving User Gaming Experience To Be Presented at ACM SIGCHI 2009
- 02/10/09 Prof. Gabriel received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award
- 01/28/09 When Wireless Meets Healthcare
- 01/01/09 Prof. Ricardo Vilalta is the Co-Author of a New Book Entitled 'Metalearning: Applications to Data Mining' Published by Springer Editorial
- 2008
- 12/23/08 Prof. Shah Awarded A Subcontract From Army Research Labs
- 12/22/08 Babu Sundaram Is One Of The 10 Winners Worldwide In A Competition From Cisco
- 12/20/08 Prof. Chapman Receives Donation From Texas Instruments
- 12/19/08 Professor Albert M. K. Cheng Receives A Wind River Software Award