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Prof. Lizy John of Texas ECE has been selected as a recipient of a Fulbright Specialist Program Award.
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Twelve students associated with Texas ECE have been selected to receive prestigious fellowships from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) for 2026.
Photo of a researcher placing a flexible tattoo on a plant leaf to track hydration levels.

Researchers have developed an electronic tattoo to track moisture levels in plant leaves, potentially leading to improvements in wildfire prediction, agricultural yields, water conservation and food security.
Emanuele Galiffi

Emanuele Galiffi has been named the recipient of the 2026 Santimay Basu Prize from Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI).
Radu Marculescu

Professor Radu Marculescu has been recognized as an 2025 AAAS Fellow for his contributions to science and engineering.
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A new microscopy technology developed by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin produced one of the largest and most detailed optical images of complex biological tissue ever created.
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New technology created at UT overcomes one of the biggest hurdles in robotics: sensitive touch.
Atlas Wang

Prof. Atlas Wang and his research team have received a Science of Trustworthy AI grant from Schmidt Sciences for their work on “Unlearning Sensitive Knowledge in Reasoning Models: From Final Answers to Reasoning Traces.”
Radu Marculescu

Radu Marculescu, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a recipient of an Amazon Research Award.
Jianing Zhu

Texas ECE postdoctoral scholar Jianing Zhu has received the 2025 TrustAI Rising Star Award, presented at the Lock-LLM Workshop of NeurIPS 2025.