Dr. Ram Dantu attended the TIA'2014 Network of the Future conference on June 3rd to 5th, 2014 at Dallas, TX and presented under the "Big Data & Privacy" track. His topic of the day was "The Connected Car". Part of his discussion was described as follows; "Most automakers are developing multimedia for infotainment, mobile device support and such functions as touch and voice recognition, radar, video, way-finding, real-time diagnostics and online services.

Chaitra Vijaygopalraj Urs started UNT's Graduate program in Computer Engineering in the Fall semester of 2010 with Communication and Networks as her specialization. Her interest to learn motivated her to initially start helping fellow students in their projects at the Network Security Lab (NSL), later continuing to take up a thesis under Dr. Ram Dantu.

The National Science Foundation has featured CSE Professor Dr. Ram Dantu's"Mobile Life Guard" on the front page of its website. Dr. Dantu and his team created this app that keeps drivers focused and safe on the roads. A year ago, Dr. Dantu was among the first group of scientists to receive a $50,000 National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) award which help scientists and engineers extend their focus beyond the laboratory into the commercial award.

Brandon Gozick received his BS in Computer Engineering from University of North Texas in Summer 2010. The following semester, he began UNT's Graduate program and received a position as a Research Assistant in the Network Security Lab (NSL). During his time here, his interests have grown tremendously in adaptive and ubiquitous mobile computing. He worked with a fellow student on project creating an indoor navigation method for the blind which was subsequently awarded UNT's 2012 Graduate Students Impact Award.