CSEM Graduate Studies - UT Austin

10/24/2019

Professor Demkov is applying his optical computing methods to more efficiently mimic the human brain's workings.

If you wanted to deliver a package across the street, you could program a powerful computer to do it, equipped with sensors and hardware capable of running multiple differential equations to track the movement and speed of each car. But a young child would be capable of doing the same task with litt...

10/17/2019

An estimated 500,000 human-made objects are hurtling around our planet right now. More than 99 percent of them are junk. The editors of Wired magazine selected Oden Professor Moriba Jah as one of the 25 people and groups who offer real hope that we can fix the mistakes of the past and still have a chance for a future we can survive. https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-stories-people-racing-to-save-us/

10/09/2019

Congratulations Professor Goodenough! Well deserved!

AUSTIN, Texas — John B. Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2019 Nobel

10/02/2019

Professor Yankeelov advocates for the development of a mathematical theory of cancer relying on patient-specific differences, instead of Big Data's population-based differences.

Imagine trying to get to the moon by launching thousands of rockets to find the right path. That's how we approach cancer.

08/26/2019

Welcome, welcome new CSEM students!

08/22/2019

Professor Hughes' private/public project to develop a new cardiovascular modeling technique moves to the next level.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $550,000 to fund a collaborative new Oden Institute research project to develop a noninvasive, computational modeling technology for assessing the likelihood of a heart attack in patients with high levels of plaque buildup in their arteries — the primary...

08/08/2019

Oden Institute Director Karen Willcox spoke at ICIAM 2019 on the new approach required to meet the increasing demands of machine learning – as society goes from directing people’s TV habits to determining hospital treatment.

Invited lectuyer at ICIAM 2019 Karen Willcox talks us through her talk, Projection-based Model Reduction: Formulations for Physics-based Machine Learning, an...

07/17/2019

Professor Jah publishes an opinion piece in USA Today urging us to combine space exploration with sustainable practices.

Much of what we launch into space never comes back. As it becomes more commercialized, we must manage space traffic and protect the space environment.

06/18/2019

Congratulations
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) The Oden Institute is grateful for this world-class UT resource!

TACC’s leadership-class system tops all academic supercomputers, achieves 23.5 PetaFLOPS on Top500 benchmark

06/05/2019

CSEM Alumnus and Oden Institute Postdoc John Hawkins' analysis of bat genomes appeared in the June 4 edition of PNAS.

This work represents a large, order-wide evolutionary analysis of the order Chiroptera (bats). Our pipeline for assembling sequence data and curating orthologous multiple sequence alignments includes methods for improving results when combining genomic and transcriptomic data sources. The resulting....

06/04/2019

Good work Qi Lei!

In the world of machine learning algorithms, text was considered relatively safe from adversarial attacks, because, whereas a malicious agent can make minute adjustments to an image or waveform of sound, it can’t alter a word by, say, 1%. But Oden Institute student Qi Lei and her collaborators hav...

05/15/2019

Oden Institute Professor Moriba Jah is working to develop a global coalition supporting a safe, secure, and sustainable space environment.

"It's like a gold rush because people see, 'Oh, wow, there are trillions of dollars to be made with space-based services. There are no space traffic rules. ... I'm just going to go up there and make my claim and make my money and get out,'" Moriba Jah, an associate professor at the University of Tex...