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Seth Bank

Seth Bank Named 2023 Optica Fellow

Seth Bank was one of 109 members from 24 countries to be elected as an Optica Fellow (formerly Optical Society of America OSA) for outstanding contributions to business, education, research, engineering, and service to Optica and our community.
Kristi Nguyen

PhD Student Kristi Nguyen Receives IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Best Student Paper Award

Texas ECE PhD student Kristi Nguyen has received the Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2022 for her work on "Near-Spurious-Free Lithium Niobate Resonator for Piezoelectric Power Conversion with Q of 3500 and kt2 of 45%."
Emanuel Tutuc

Emanuel Tutuc Receives James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

The James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials recognizes outstanding achievement in the science and application of new materials and was awarded “for seminal contributions to the synthesis and assembly of high quality 2D materials and their heterostructures.”
Corey White

Corey White Wins Best Student Presentation at NAMBE

Texas ECE PhD student Corey White was awarded the Best Student Presentation Award at the 36th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE) Conference.
Gerstlauer and John

Andreas Gerstlauer and Lizy John Receive Meta Research Award

Andreas Gerstlauer and Lizy John, professors in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, have received a research award from Meta for their work on "Creating a Dataset for ML-Guided Chip Design."
Visionaries

Visionaries: José del R. Millán

Published at Dell Medical School Visionaries

Your brain can be taught to signal a computer. If José del R. Millán has his way, brain-computer interfaces will one day make wheelchairs obsolete.

Ten years after his stroke, a man paralyzed from the waist down starts “walking,” operating an exoskeleton with his mind. Researchers led by José del R

Maria Cortez

Alumni Profile: Maria Cortez

Maria Cortez received her BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas ECE. After holding several leadership positions at Texas Instruments, she joined Advanced Energy as the Senior Vice President, Industrial Power Products in May 2022. We sat down with Maria to learn more about her experiences in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Alexa Blanco

Student Profile: Alexa Blanco

Alexa Blanco started at Texas ECE in 2020 and is in the software Engineering Tech Core. She has served as Vice President and Chapter Director of the UT Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), and she is a member of the Women in Engineering Program (WEP), the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and served as the propulsion subsystem lead

Chandra naming

Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Established

Hundreds of students, faculty and staff members, alumni and friends gathered to celebrate a transformative gift resulting in the naming of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. The department will now be named the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Sophia Nance

Student Profile: Sophia Nance

Sophia Nance is a senior in Texas ECE. She serves as a peer mentor in the academic advising office. We sat down with Sophia to learn more about her student experience in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.