Professor David Pan Receives 2010 IBM Faculty Award

Professor David Pan of UT ECE had received a 2010 IBM Faculty Award. The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations, and promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.The IBM Faculty Awards is a worldwide competitive program. Nominations for these awards must be initiated by someone within IBM.

Professor Vijay Garg and Students Win Best Paper Award at SSS 2010

Professor Vijay Garg of UT ECE, along with former UT ECE students Anurag Agarwal and Vinit Ogale, received the best paper award at the 12th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2010), New York City, USA September 20-22, 2010. The award is for the paper titled Modeling and Analyzing Periodic Distributed Computations.

Professor Miryung Kim and Former UT ECE Students Win Best Paper Award at ASE 2010

Professor Miryung Kim of UT ECE along with two of her former students, Adam Duley and Chris Spandikow, have received the Best Paper Award at the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering for their paper A Program Differencing Algorithm for Verilog HDL.

Smart Grid Project to Offer Hands-on Opportunities for Students

Graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin will play an integral part in the development of the power grid of the future for the Pecan Street Project, a leading sustainable energy research partnership between the University, Austin Energy, the City of Austin and high-tech companies, among others, that's aimed at reinventing how we get and use energy.

Profs. Andreas Gerstlauer and Michael Orshansky Awarded NSF Grant on Low-Power Design of Signal Processing Circuits

Improving energy efficiency is one of the major design challenges in computing, especially in battery-operated and autonomous embedded and mobile systems. In many systems, a large amount of computation is devoted to algorithms for audiovisual processing, recognition, and communication that heavily utilize digital signal processing (DSP) architectures. In a recently awarded NSF grant on the Formal Synthesis of Low-Energy Signal Processing Systems Relying on Controlled Timing-Error Acceptance, Profs.

NSF Grant on Whitespace Spectrum Sharing Awarded to Profs. Sanjay Shakkottai and Lili Qiu

NSF Grant on Whitespace Spectrum Sharing Awarded to Profs. Sanjay Shakkottai and Lili Qiu

Hassibi's Invention Makes CMOS-based Next Gen DNA Sequencing Possible

On August 17th, 2010, Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ion Torrent for $375 million in cash and stock and an additional $350 million upon the meeting time-based milestones through 2012. Ion Torrent has been building the next generation of fully-electronic and CMOS-based DNA sequencing platforms, a technology which was co-invented by Professor Arjang Hassibi while at Stanford University (US Patent 7,223,540), now an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Jeffrey Andrews Publishes New 4G Cellular Book

Fundamentals of LTE, the most accessible and complete tutorial on the LTE standard for 4G cellular, hits bookstores on September 13. This book is the result of a long-standing collaboration between Dr. Arunabha Ghosh and Rias Muhamed of AT&T Labs and Prof. Jeffrey Andrews and his former student Dr. Jun Zhang, whose dissertation research was on multiuser and networked MIMO techniques and their application LTE, and was supported by AT&T Labs.

US News and World Report Ranks UT ECE Computer Engineering Program #7

U.S. News and World Report has just published their annual rankings of the Best Engineering Undergraduate Programs in the country and the UT ECE Department is ranked #7 in Computer Engineering. The Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Program was ranked #11. This continues a long streak of UT ECE being ranked among the Top 10 programs in the country.

A Vision of Wireless Possibilities

UT ECE faculty are tackling a big-picture wireless initiative, Network of Systems Vision, combining communication and computation in never-before-imagined ways.