NSF grant will help UTSA professor Shouhuai Xu create a malware recognition algorithm to unmask malicious software. (October 1, 2018) -- They still don’t know how long they had been planning the attack. Either way, the hackers with several strokes of a keyboard, unleashed a malware that hijacked the City of Atlanta’s computer systems. Mayor Keisha Laice Bottoms at the time called it a “hostage situation.” Sam Sam, the group thought to be the masterminds behind the ...
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(September 18, 2018) -- UTSA today announced it has received a $15 million gift from San Antonio business leader Graham Weston to support the university’s proposed School of Data Science. The school is a major component in UTSA’s phased, 10-year approach to accelerating the development of its Downtown Campus as a destination for producing highly skilled professionals in big data and analytics, advancing economic development in the urban core and creating prosperity for San Antonio. At the same time, UTSA is ...
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Yongli Gao’s student research team performs research at the Cibolo Preserve. (September 17, 2018) -- The UTSA Vice President for Research, Economic Development, and Knowledge Enterprise (VPREDKE) and the Cibolo Preserve have renewed their research collaboration master agreement for another five years. Cibolo Preserve, a Texas charitable foundation/nonprofit, allows UTSA faculty, staff and students the controlled access to observe, instruct and conduct research per an application and vetting process managed by the VPREDKE. The Cibolo Preserve, originally established ...
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As students and faculty settle in to a new semester, two entrepreneurial teams from UTSA are packing up and heading out to travel the country and discover who their potential customers are. The recipients of two $50,000 awards from the National Science Foundation are Gold Hood, for her team’s insect control device, and Amir Jafari, for his team’s treadmill with adjustable surface stiffness. They have been accepted in the San Diego- and Atlanta-based cohorts, respectively. For two months beginning in ...
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UT System Board of Regents authorizes $70 million for construction of facilities. Sept. 6, 2018) -- UTSA has received a $70 million commitment from The University of Texas System Board of Regents for construction of two new facilities at its Downtown Campus for a National Security Collaboration Center and a proposed School of Data Science. The funding, approved today by Regents and designated from the Permanent University Fund, significantly advances UTSA President Taylor Eighmy’s vision of creating new academic and research initiatives ...
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