Skip to main content

News

Nikhil Garg

Texas ECE alumnus Nikhil Garg Named to Forbes 30 under 30: Science

Texas ECE alumnus Nikhil Garg has been named to the Forbes 30 under 30: Science.
Dejia Xu

Dejia Xu Receives Snap PhD Fellowship

Texas ECE PhD student Dejia Xu has been selected to receive a Snap PhD Fellowship. The Snap Research Fellowship program is designed to foster a strong collaboration between Snap Research and the brightest, most driven graduate computer science students across the world.
Ray Chen

Ray Chen Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Ray Chen, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
Al Bovik

Al Bovik Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Al Bovik, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

Bo

Bammy

Al Bovik and LIVE Receive BaM (“Bammy”) Award®

Al Bovik and the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) are the recipient of a BaM (“Bammy”) Award® from the International Trade Association for Broadcast & Media Technology, in December 2022, for "perceptual picture quality algorithms and databases for streaming and social media." 
Constantine Caramanis

Caramanis Elevated to IEEE Fellow

Caramanis was honored "for contributions to robust statistics and optimization in high dimensions."
Heng and Andrews

Yuqiang (Ethan) Heng and Jeff Andrews Win Globecom Best Paper Award

PhD candidate Yuqiang (Ethan) Heng and Prof. Jeff Andrews have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Communications Conference 2022 (Globecom) for their paper "Grid-less mmWave Beam Alignment through Deep Learning." 
Jessica Nelson

Native American Heritage Month - Student Profile: Jessica Nelson

Jessica Nelson is a sophomore in the Cockrell School's Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, we spoke with Jessica to learn more about her time in Texas ECE and what her heritage means to her.
Brain-Powered Wheelchair Shows Real-World Promise in New Study

Brain-Powered Wheelchair Shows Real-World Promise

In one of the first studies of its kind, several patients with severe motor disabilities were able to operate a wheelchair that translates their thoughts into movement.
Nicholas Barry

Veterans Day Student Profile: Nicholas Barry

Nicholas Barry joined Texas ECE in 2020 as a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Surya Santoso. Prior to that he spent 16 years in the US Army. We sat down with Nicholas to more about how his service influences his academic career.