UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director, Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning Graduate Studies Committee Chair / Facilities Management
- Professor
Adam Klivans is a recipient of the NSF Career Award. His research interests lie in machine learning and theoretical computer science, in particular, Learning Theory, Computational Complexity, Pseudorandomness, Limit Theorems, and Gaussian Space. He also serves on the editorial board for the Theory of Computing and Machine Learning Journal.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin
- Professor, Regents Chair in Computer Sciences 1
Aditya Akella is a Regents Chair professor of Computer Science at UT Austin. He obtained his Ph.D. from CMU and B. Tech. from IIT Madras. Prior to joining UT Austin, he spent fifteen years as a professor at UW-Madison. Prof. Akella works on improving the performance, reliability, and correctness of Cloud and Internet infrastructure. His research straddles the boundary between computer networking and adjacent areas such as operating systems, databases, and formal methods. Prof. Akella has won numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service contributions. Akella's research has impacted production systems run by some of the world's largest tech companies.
Job Titles:
- Chairman Emeritus in Computing Theory
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ahmed Gheith is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UT Computer Science. His interests are in research and advanced development of computer systems with emphasis on computer architecture, operating systems, language run-times, and system middleware.
Job Titles:
- Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering 3
- Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Regents Chair in Engineering at UT Austin
Al Bovik holds the Cockrell Family Endowed Regents Chair in Engineering at UT Austin, where he is Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE). He is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Neuroscience. He has published more than 800 technical articles in these areas and holds several U.S. patents. His publications have been cited more than 75,000 times in the literature, his current H-index is above 100, and he is listed as a Highly-Cited Researcher by Thompson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics. His several books include the companion volumes The Essential Guides to Image and Video Processing
Alan Cline is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science. In 2005, Dr. Cline was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and in 2010, he was awarded the University of Texas Regents Outstanding Teachers Award. Previously, Dr. Cline has served as Southern Regional Director for the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. His research interests include numerical analysis, scientific computing, and mathematical software.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director for Academic Affairs
Alexander is assistant professor of Neuroscience and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His research uses computational methods to model how the brain processes language and represents meaning. Alexander is also interested in fMRI technology and data visualization.
Job Titles:
- Co - Director, Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning
- Department of Electrical
- Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Engineering 2 Associate Professor / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
Dr. Dimakis received his Ph.D. in 2008 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley and the Diploma degree from the National Technical University of Athens. He received an ARO young investigator award in 2014, the NSF Career award in 2011, a Google faculty research award, the Eli Jury dissertation award and several best paper awards. His research interests include information theory, coding theory and machine learning.
Job Titles:
- Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education
- Associate Professor of Instruction
Dr. Norman is an Associate Professor of Instruction in The University of Texas at Austin Computer Science Department. She received both her M.S. in computer science and her Ph.D. in computer science from this department. Since then, she has been fortunate enough to spend her days teaching systems to undergraduates and performing outreach to underserved communities. Her research interests lie in the intersection of supercomputing and program analysis with a special interest in static techniques to improve checkpointing. She is also interested in large-scale simulation.
Job Titles:
- HR Partner
- Senior Administrative Associate
Allyson is an HR partner for the computer science department in Workday, handles hourly payroll, and processes payment vouchers and transfer documents. She also monitors and reconciles department accounts.
Job Titles:
- Professor, Quincy Lee Centennial Professorship in Computer Science
Dr. Mok is currently conducting fundamental research in the area of distributed real-time systems. His primary concerns include specification techniques for real-time systems, algorithms for guaranteeing stringent timing constraints and understanding the trade-off between the robustness and response times of time-critical systems. The goal is to develop a formal framework for automating the analysis and synthesis of robust real-time systems. Application areas include robot control systems, avionics software and industrial process control systems. Funding is being provided by the Office of Naval Research to develop a highly automated design environment for real-time systems.
Job Titles:
- Senior System Administrator
Amy Pavel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Prior to joining UT Austin, Pavel was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and a Research Scientist at Apple. She obtained her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Her research in Human-Computer Interaction focuses on designing, building and evaluating new interactive systems driven by Artificial Intelligence. Her primary research goal is to make technology-mediated communication more efficient and accessible, especially for people with disabilities. She publishes her work at venues such as CHI, UIST and NAACL.
Job Titles:
- Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair
- Professor, Red McCombs School of Business
Andrew B. Whinston is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, John Newton Centennial IC2 Fellow, and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce at The University of Texas at Austin. He is editor of the journals Decision Support Systems and Organizational Computing, and Electronic Commerce, and co-author or co-editor of 23 books and over 250 articles.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Computer Science
Angie Beasley is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Computer Science department at UT, where she teaches Data Mining. Prior to teaching, Angie worked for 15 years as a software engineer on projects for the US Navy, including submarine sonar systems, periscope systems, unmanned underwater vehicles, radar systems, and radio and satellite communication systems. Angie received her MS in Computer Science with a concentration in Machine Learning from The George Washington University and her BS in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.
Angela Beasley. 2003. Modeling a set of coupled ordinary differential equations using Genetic Programming in C++.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
With a BS in Applied Mathematics, and a MS in computer science, Anna launched her career in engineering working on the Thirty Meter Telescope project. Over the next 12 years, she specialized in remote sensing algorithms, culminating as the principle investigator in an Office of Naval Research contract on the classification of signals. In 2014 she took her breadth of machine learning knowledge in applied research to the IBM Watson group. Within IBM Watson she led teams that created AI applications for business, and on the side hacked on The Watson Beat code base. Starting in 2019, she was a director of engineering for Resideo Technologies for one year, specializing in IoT devices. Currently she is enjoying working with students and teaching the next generation of data scientists mad skills and pursuing her research interests in computational creativity. She also plays bass guitar in live-band Karaoke act.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas
Anna Gal is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and at Princeton University. Her main research area is computational complexity theory. Her research interests include circuit complexity, communication complexity, fault tolerant computation and combinatorics. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. She received the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper at the 1991 IEEE FOCS conference, and the EATCS Best Paper Award at Track A of ICALP 2003.
Job Titles:
- Professor Emeritus
- Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan
Benjamin Kuipers is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He was previously an endowed Professor in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as Department Chair. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College, his Ph.D. from MIT, and he is a Fellow of AAAI, IEEE, and AAAS.
Dr. Porter's research and teaching focuses on machine reading. This technology holds tremendous potential for capturing knowledge for automated inference, question answering, explanation generation, and other AI capabilities that interest him.
Porter, B. with Barker, K., et.al.. 2004. "A Question-Answering System for AP Chemistry: Assessing KRR Technologies". The Ninth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
Job Titles:
- Director of Turing Scholars
- President 's Associates Teaching Excellence Award
- Professor
- University Distinguished Teaching Professor
Calvin Lin is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor with research interests in computer architecture, compilers, and security. In addition to his technical research, he has led UT's NSF-funded effort to improve high school CS curricula. He is also the Director of the Turing Scholars Honors Program and the longtime coach of UT's Men's Ultimate Frisbee team. Calvin received his BS from Princeton and his PhD from the University of Washington.
Calvin Smith is a post-doc in UT Austin's Trishul lab working on problems in the intersection of probabilistic programming, logic, and machine learning.
Job Titles:
- Student Program Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Senior Administrative Associate
Job Titles:
- Academic Advisor
- Associate
Job Titles:
- Professor, Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization
- Selected As SIAM Fellow
Bajaj's research is focussed on developing computer science and applied mathematics algorithms in geometric modeling, imaging data sciences, bio-informatics and data visualization. Many applications stem from bio-medical engineering, physical, chemical, geological sciences and bio-inspired architecture. His commitment to the field of computational and predictive medicine is evidenced by his research focus this past decade
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Rossbach is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the UT Austin, Senior Affiliated Researcher at VMware Research Group, and a former Member of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Research Scientist
Corrie Van Sice is a Research Scientist Associate at UT Dept. of Computer Science working across multiple groups within the Texas Robotics Consortium. She facilitates research in AI/ML for service and social robots, manipulators, autonomous vehicles, and human-robot interfaces. Corrie Van Sice earned a Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University in 2011. She's held appointments in academia and industry, including Managing Researcher in the Green 3D Printing lab with Dr. Jeremy Faludi, Dartmouth College Thayer School of Engineering, and Lead Materials Research Engineer at MakerBot Industries in Brooklyn, NY.
Job Titles:
- Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Selected for 2014 Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award
Dana Ballard received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, in 1974. His main research interest is in computational theories of the brain with emphasis on human vision and motor control. Currently Ballard is interested in pursuing this research by using high DOF models of humans' natural behavior in virtual reality environments.
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award
Job Titles:
- Selected for 2014 Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin
Dana Moshkovitz is an associate professor of Computer Science at UT Austin. Her research is in Theoretical Computer Science. Much of it focuses on the limitations of approximation algorithms and probabilistic checking of proofs. Dana did her PhD at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Her thesis co-won the Nessyahu Prize for best math PhD thesis in Israel in 2009, and part of this work was awarded the FOCS 2008 Best paper. Dana went on to spend a couple of years at Princeton University and the Institute of Advanced Study before joining MIT as an assistant professor. Dana is the recipient of the Jerome Saltzer teaching award of MIT EECS.
Dr. Miranker's Semantic Web projects concern data integration, the automated mapping of legacy relational databases to the Semantic Web, In Bioinformatics, his specific current projects concern comparative RNA sequence analysis and Big Data methods applied to genome sequencing
Job Titles:
- Centennial Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor
- Centennial Professor Emeritus in Computer Sciences 2, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
David Harwath's research interests are in the areas of automatic speech recognition, spoken language understanding, and multi-modal machine learning. His work aims to develop models of speech and language that are robust, flexible, and capable of learning on the fly from multiple input modalities. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a S.M. in Computer Science from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellowship 5
David Wu's research interests are in theoretical and applied cryptography. Before joining UT Austin in Fall 2021, David was an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science deparment at the University of Virginia. Before that, he received his PhD in computer science from Stanford in 2018. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award in 2021, and his research has been recognized by Best Young-Researcher Paper Awards at CRYPTO 2017 and 2018 as well as an Outstanding Paper Award at ESORICS 2016.
Job Titles:
- Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Professor, Silicon Laboratories Endowed Chair, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
David Z. Pan (IEEE Fellow, SPIE Fellow) received his B.S. degree from Peking University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 2000 to 2003, he was a Research Staff Member with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He has been an Assistant Professor (2003-2008), Associate Professor (2008-2013), and Professor (2013-) with The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include electronic design automation, efficient machine learning, hardware acceleration, prototyping for analog/digital/mixed-signal designs and emerging technologies. He has published over 400 refereed journal and conference papers, and is the holder of 8 U.S. Patents. He has graduated 40 PhDs and postdocs at UT Austin, who are now taking key academic and industry roles.
Job Titles:
- Fellow
- Professor, Professorship in Computer Sciences 1
David Zuckerman holds an Endowed Professorship in the Texas Computer Science. He received an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1991. He was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT from 1991-1993, and at Hebrew University in the Fall of 1993. He has been with the University of Texas since then, visiting U.C. Berkeley from 1999-2000, Harvard University from 2004-2005, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2011-12. In Spring 2017, he is visiting U.C. Berkeley, co-organizing the Simons Program on Pseudorandomness.
R. Meka and D. Zuckerman. 2010. "Pseudorandom generators for polynomial threshold functions" .
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Professor Emeritus, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Computer Sciences 1
Job Titles:
- Department Chair
- Department Chair, Professor, Trammell Crow Regents Professorship in Computer Science
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director for Academic Programs and Planning
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Ananya Uppal is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) at the University of Texas at Austin. Her main research area is statistical machine learning and theoretically understanding machine learning algorithms. She received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and her bachelors degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Anders Miltner is very interested in how program synthesis can change how programmers interact with computers. He believes tools can automate many programming tasks, allowing programmers to spend less time on tedious aspects of code, and more time on implementing core algorithms. His core goal as a programming languages researcher is to make programming more productive and programs more reliable through a combination of language design, program analysis, logic, and theorem proving.
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Professor / Security and Privacy
Dr. Brent Waters received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2004. From 2004-2005, he was a post-doctoral at Stanford University then worked at SRI as a Computer Scientist. In 2008 he joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Waters' research interests are in the areas of cryptography computer security. His work has focused on Identity-Based Cryptography, Functional Encryption, and code obfuscation. He is noted as a founder of Functional Encryption and Attribute-Based Encryption. Dr. Waters both publishes and has served on the program committees of the top technical security venues (CRYPTO, Eurocrypt, ACM CCS, Usenix Security and the IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy). Dr. Waters has been an invited speaker in industry and at research Universities, including MIT, CMU, and Stanford.
Job Titles:
- Professor in the in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, William H. Hartwig Fellowship in Electrical Engineering
- Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Constantine Caramanis is a Professor and holds the William H. Hartwig Fellowship in Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Caramanis joined the UT Electrical and Computer Engineering department in the Fall of 2006. He received his A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
Job Titles:
- Regents Chair Emeritus in Computer Science 2
Job Titles:
- Director for Online Programs
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Graduate Advisor
- Professor
Job Titles:
- Grant Administrator
- Senior Administrative Associate
Heidi is a grant administrator supporting faculty and students in the Center for Information Assurance and Security.
Job Titles:
- Centennial Chair in Business Administration
Job Titles:
- Program Coordinator, Alumni & Constituent Relations
- Program Coordinator, Alumni & Constituent Relations / Marketing & Communications
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Associate Vice President for Research, Founding Director of Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Cockrell Family Regents' Chair in Engineering 2
Job Titles:
- Events Coordinator, Texas Robotics
Job Titles:
- Schlumberger Centennial Chair Emeritus and University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Job Titles:
- Academic Advisor
- Assistant
Job Titles:
- Director of Technology and Facilities
- Director of Technology and Facilities / Facilities Management
Job Titles:
- Entrepreneur in Residence
Job Titles:
- Building Manager
- Building Manager / Facilities Management
Job Titles:
- Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Electrical Engineering Professor
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Practice
Job Titles:
- Communications Coordinator, IFML and
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director for Online Programs
Job Titles:
- Professor, Department of Linguistics
Job Titles:
- Research Engineer / Science Associate I
Job Titles:
- Director of Administration
Job Titles:
- Professor, Admiral B.R. Inman Centennial Chair in Computing Theory
Job Titles:
- Professor, W.a."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Program Manager, Corporate & Employer Relations
Job Titles:
- Professor, Professorship in Computer Sciences 4
Job Titles:
- Director of Industry & Research Relations
Job Titles:
- Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Job Titles:
- Administrative Manager
- Administrative Manager of the CS Accounting
Lydia is the Administrative Manager of the CS Accounting department. She oversees all department accounts, approves department documents such as purchase orders, HR assignments, reimbursement and payment vouchers.
Job Titles:
- Online Programs Graduate Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Director of Networking and Infrastructure
- Director of Networking and Infrastructure / Facilities Management
Job Titles:
- Professor, School of Information
Job Titles:
- Developer
- Software Developer
Megan Bernella works as Salesforce Developer for the UT Computer Science online master's program. Furthermore, Megan supports the department with software integrations and various business applications development.
Megan is a Senior Administrative support for Programs group; HR Partner and voucher processing for the Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Job Titles:
- Senior Administrative Associate
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of Commercialization of Health Ecosystem at Dell Medical School and Managing Director of Texas Health CoLab
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director for Outreach and Recruitment
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Senior Administrative Assistant
- Senior Administrative Associate, Theory Group
Monica Aguilar is the senior administrative assistant to the Theory and Algorithms Group at Texas Computer Science.
Job Titles:
- Academic Advising Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
Job Titles:
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology / Graphics and Visualization / Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, and Networking
Job Titles:
- Senior Systems Administrator
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellowship 8 in Computer Sciences, Zeitlin Fellow
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellowship 7 in Computer Science
Job Titles:
- Professor, Professorship in Computer Sciences 3
Job Titles:
- Professor Emeritus in Computer Science 4, Professor Emeritus in Computer Science 5
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Practice, College of Natural Sciences
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Professor, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Computer Sciences 2
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor, Faculty Fellowship 9 in Computer Sciences
Job Titles:
- Computer Systems Development Specialist
- Computer Systems Development Specialist / Facilities Management
Job Titles:
- Senior Technology Architect
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
Job Titles:
- Professor, Professorship in Computer Sciences 2
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellowship 10 in Computer Sciences
Job Titles:
- Marketing Manager
- Marketing Manager / Marketing & Communications
Job Titles:
- Online Programs Graduate Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Grant Administrator
- Senior Administrative Associate
Tyra is a grant administrator supporting the Programming Languages & Compilers research group and AI Laboratory.
Job Titles:
- Cockrell Family Dean 's Chair for Engineering Excellence
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellowship 4 in Computer Sciences
Job Titles:
- Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering 5
Job Titles:
- Professor, William Blakemore II Regents Professorship in Computer Sciences
Job Titles:
- Professor Emeritus, Professorship in Computer Sciences 2
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Instruction
Job Titles:
- Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yi-Hung Wei, Quan Leng, Wei-Ju Chen, Aloysius K Mok, Song Han. Oct 1 2018. Schedule Adaptation for Ensuring Reliability in RT-WiFi-Based Networked. AMC.
Job Titles:
- Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow