On June 19, hosted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SUSTech,  the “SUSTech-UT Dallas Joint Workshop on Recent Advances in Computer Science and Engineering” was successfully held in 111 conference hall in the library. The participants including Chair Professor, Director of the Department of CSE Xin Yao, Chair Professor Shuanghua Yang, Chair Professor Hisao Ishibuchi, Chair Professor Georgios Theodoropoulos, Associate professor Qi Hao, Assistant Professor Jin Zhang, Assistant Professor Yuqun Zhang, Research Assistant Professor Bo Yuan; Director of Computer Science Department of UT Dallas Professor Gopal Gupta, Professor I-Ling Yen, Professor Farokh Bastani, Associate Professor Zhiqiang Lin, Associate Professor Vincent Ng, Assistant Professor Cong Liu, Assistant Professor Lingming Zhang and other professionals from Shenzhen in computer science field attended this workshop.

 Prof. Gopal Gupta, Director of Computer Science Department in UT Dallas

Prof. Xin Yao, Director of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Sustech

Prof. Gopal Gupta together with Prof. Xin Yao delivered the opening address during the workshop. Professors from two universities made 14 high-level academic reports, including autonomous system, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, security, Internet of Things,software engineering and cloud computing and etc, which manifested the advanced research area in computer science. The content of the reports include Intelligent sensing for unmanned systems，Predictable gpgpu computing for automotive applications，IoT in Water Resource Management，Multi-Objective Optimization and Fuzzy System Design， Natural Language Processing，Logic Mapping in Crossbar-based Nano-architectures and etc. Besides, professors made  panel discussion on the topic of “how to build the computer studies ecosphere in Sustech”, putting forward good suggestions and ideas to the study of computer science in Sustech and even in Shenzhen. The report has attracted many teachers and students.

During the workshop, two directors discussed further cooperation on joint school, academic exchange between students and teachers from two universities.

Background 

UT Dallas is located in Richardson, Texas as the main campus of University of Texas. It ranked as top 1 in the 50 years of schooling ranking list in America. And Department of Computer Science has been developed rapidly in these years. According to csrankings.org, in the past 5 years, its academic performance ranked 24 in America, research areas like software engineering and artificial intelligence were both in Top 10 in America.(UT Dallas : http://www.utdallas.edu/ , Department of Computer Science: http://cs.utdallas.edu/ )