About ECE

Biomedical Engineering

Technology at Face Value The human face does more than help us tell each other apart. Studies have suggested that our perceptions of attractiveness and personality traits — even...

Communications, Networks, and Systems (CommNetS)

Solving the Bandwidth Bottleneck Mobile video streaming is growing so quickly that wireless cell phone traffic is expected to increase by as much as 65 times by 2014, with most of this increase...

Computer Architecture & Embedded Processors

New Computer Architecture Dr. Mattan Erez's research focus is computer architecture. Specifically, he is interested in the critical aspects of locality, parallelism and bandwidth constraints...

Computer Engineering

Defect/Fault Tolerant Systems and Design for Testability Fault tolerance as a property finds application in a wide variety of scenarios ranging from satellites to modern microprocessors. With the increasing complexity...

Electromagnetics & Acoustics

Alù's Cloaking Research Garners Media Attention Prof. Andrea Alù’s research on "cloaking" a three-dimensional object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time, has received attention from...

Energy Systems

Disaster Forensics Prof. Alexis Kwasinski of UT ECE travels to the worst natural disaster sites around the world to assess the damage inflicted on communication networks and...

Integrated Circuits & Systems

Improving Integrated Circuits Professor David Pan and UT graduate students, Ashutosh Chakraborty and Anurag Kumar, took home the $25,000 Grand Prize in the eASIC Placement Design Challenge....

Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Waveform Reveals Damage Dr. Robert Flake has discovered the first non-sinusoid signal that doesn’t undergo dispersion on transmission lines that would normally distort a signal. The...

Plasma/Quantum Electronics & Optics

Thinnest Possible Invisibility Cloak Prof. Andrea Alù of UT ECE has recently put forth two exciting possibilities to obtain drastic scattering reduction from moderately-sized objects. Once realized,...

Software Engineering

SYDIT: Automated Software Repair and Extension UT ECE Professor Miryung Kim's research focuses on automated software analysis algorithms and software development tools. As software systems become pervasive...

Solid-State Electronics

Metallic Nanostructures in Semiconductor Photonic Devices Prof. Seth Bank and his research group are investigating new materials to solve long-standing challenges that will potentially enable fundamentally new photonic...