Articles and Events
UTRGV Hosts Inaugural STARTER-AI Workshop
UTRGV has successfully launched the first South Texas AI Research, Training, and Education Resource (STARTER) AI workshop, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant IIS-2334389 with additional support from NIH, NVIDIA, and the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy (PHYA). This pioneering event marks the beginning of a planned series over the next two years, designed to advance research and education in artificial intelligence (AI) at UTRGV. The workshop, held from May 29 to 31, was led by the inter-disciplinary STARTER team: Dr. Soumya D. Mohanty (PI, PHYA), Dr. Erik Enriquez (Co-PI, CS), Dr. Dong Chul Kim (SP, CS), Dr. Sanjeev Kumar (Co-PI, ECE), Dr. Karen Martirosyan (Co-PI, PHYA), and Dr. Soma Mukherjee (Co-PI, PHYA).
2023 Hack Research
Hack Research was an exhilarating two-day hackathon that unfolded on November 11-12, with a keen emphasis on delving into the depths of Computer Science research. Participants engaged in collaborative problem-solving and brainstorming groundbreaking solutions. The competition was fierce, and the top contestants emerged victorious, securing multiple coveted prizes. Among the enticing rewards was a state-of-the-art 3D printer, laser engravers, mega-arduino kits, and board games.
2023 Hack Research Winners:
1st. Innovations in Mental Health Care: Automated Clinical Note-Taking with Artificial Intelligence- Mario Trevino, Alan Lopez, Sridhar Srinivasan, Lesley Chapa
- Izabella Valero, Tyler Morgan, Jose Amaro
- Ethen Sanchez, Julio Maldonado
- Adrian Salinas, Alberto Avila Jimenez
- Johann Cruz, Juan Perez, Ryan Knobel, Gaukhar Nurbek
Paper accepted to the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA)
The Algorithmic Self-Assembly Research Group ( A.S.A.R.G.) has a paper accepted at the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) 2021. The paper is titled Covert Computation in Staged Self-Assembly: Verification is PSPACE-complete. The authors are David Caballero, Timothy Gomez, Robert Schweller, and Tim Wylie.
UTRGV Professors Receive Grant to Enhance Agriculture
Research by UTRGV professors, Dr. Dongchul Kim, associate professor of computer science, and Dr. Joanne Rampersad-Ammons, professor in the School of Earth, Environmental and Marine Sciences, on monitoring the critical honeybee population in South Texas is funded by a federal research grant from the USDA. The project is titled - “Applying Computer Vision Technologies To Honey Bee Health and Surveillance: Building Capacity in Agricultural Engineering at a HSI”.
Spring 2020 Game Showcase
Moving online did stop UTRGV Computer Science students from showing off their games, hosted on May 6 on their Discord!
National Science Foundation awards grant to UTRGV’s Department of Computer Science
The National Science Foundation has awarded UTRGV’s Department of Computer Science a grant for a research project, “Unifying Self-Assembly through Tile Automata,” which introduces and explores the Tile Automata abstract model of self-assembly to better understand how to design systems of particles, such as molecules of DNA, to reliably self-assemble into complex structures based on simple rules and local interactions. Associate Professor Dr. Robert Schweller (shown here) and Assistant Professor Dr. Tim Wylie worked on the grant proposal and are part of the Algorithmic Self-Assembly Research Group (A.S.A.R.G.) at UTRGV.
UTRGV computer science, art students share their prototypes at Game Showcase Spring 2018
A University of Texas Rio Grande Valley computer lab bustled with sounds of clicking keyboards Tuesday as students played and ranked their favorite student-made video games.
Computer Science undergraduate collaborates with Google to improve interest and retention among Women students
Computer science senior Janette Garcia was selected as one of 15 students from across the United States to collaborate with Google on ways to promote broad interest in computer science among women students.
UTRGV Computer Science & Art Students Share Their Prototypes At Game Showcase Spring 2017
UTRGV students turned out to test and vote for the best of nine video game prototypes, during the UTRGV Game Showcase, held May 11 at the Edinburg Campus Computer Systems Lab. The prototypes were created by computer science and art students in a Game Design course offered at the university.