Jong Yeon Park, ECE Doctoral Student, received a 2009 Coventor & The Micro and Nanotechnology Commercialization Education Foundation (MANCEF) Scholarship Awards. He is one of only three international recipients.

UT-ECE professors Ali Yilmaz and John Pearce and their colleagues Professors Leszek Demkowicz and Robert van de Geijn at ICES and Dr.

UT-ECE professor Gustavo de Veciana has been awarded two grants by the National Science Foundation:

A $400K grant for a project entitled Dynamic coupling and flow-level performance in data networks, and, in conjunction with Professor George Kesidis from Penn State, a $300K grant for a project entitled Supporting unstructured peer-to-peer social networking.

Professor John Goodenough, who developed materials critical to the development of lightweight and rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, ushering in the wireless revolution, has been awarded the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the most distinguished science and technology honors given by the White House.

Ph.D. student, Felix Gutierrez, has been named a Marconi Young Scholar. He is one of only five international recipients. The Marconi Society, an organization devoted to recognizing and encouraging scientific contributions in the field of communications science and the internet, recognized Gutierrez for his outstanding work in the field of antenna design and analog circuit design. 

Assistant professor, Sarfraz Khurshid, has become the fifth ECE faculty member to win the most prestigious prize the National Science Foundation offers this year. The CAREER award supports the early career-development activities of the country's most promising researchers.

An anonymous donor has established a $50,000 J.K. Aggarwal Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Electrical & Computer Engineering. The annual scholarship was awarded to ECE senior, David Lu.

Dr. Sujay Sanghavi will join ECE as an Assistant Professor in the Fall. His research lies at the intersection of two fields: networking, and statistical machine learning. He is particularly interested in the use of probability and optimization for developing new algorithms in both of these fields.

Sujay has a B. Tech from IIT Bombay, and two MS degrees (in Math and ECE) and a PhD in ECE from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He just completed two years as a postdoc at MIT, and one year as an assistant professor in ECE at Purdue University.

Assistant professor Seth Bank just received a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young researchers. Bank will use the $1M grant attached to the award to study metal/semiconductor nanocomposites (metallic nanoparticles embedded in a semiconductor). The goal is to use these new materials to produce efficient sources of terahertz radiation for a number of applications in chemical/gas sensing and security.

Deji Akinwande to Join ECE Faculty