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Nitika Mago

Alumni Profile: Nitika Mago

Nitika Mago is a Senior Manager for Balancing Operations Planning at Electric Reliability Council Of Texas (ERCOT). She received her M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Texas ECE in 2007. We sat down with Nitika to talk about what she is doing now, and her time in Texas ECE.
TIE DARPA

UT Awarded $840M To Build Microelectronics Manufacturing Center, Advance U.S. Semiconductor Industry

The Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) at The University of Texas at Austin has been selected to engineer the next generation of high-performing semiconductor microsystems.
Vakhtang Chulukhadze

Vakhtang Chulukhadze Receives Outstanding Poster Award at MEMS Conference

Vakhtang Chulukhadze of Texas ECE received the Outstanding Poster Award at the Hilton Head Workshop on Solid-state sensors, Actuators and Microsystems.
Sinwoo Cho

Sinwoo Cho Receives Award at International Microwave Symposium

Sinwoo Cho received third place at the 2024 International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Student Paper Competition presented by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society.
Wuyang Chen

Wuyang Chen Receives Two Dissertation Awards

Texas ECE alumnus Wuyang Chen has been announced as the recipient of two major dissertation awards recently. He received the International Neural Network Society (INNS) Doctoral Dissertation Award as well as the iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award 2024.
MLCommons Rising Stars

Texas ECE Student and Postdoc Named MLCommons Rising Stars

Junyuan Hong and Feng (Jeff) Liang have been named MLCommons Rising Stars for 2024. MLCommons Rising Stars are awarded for students "who have demonstrated excellence in Machine Learning (ML) and Systems research and stand out for their current and future contributions and potential."
Simeon Bochev

Alumni Profile: Simeon Bochev

Simeon Bochev received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Texas ECE in 2012. He went on to receive a Master of Science, Finance from the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin and an MBA from Harvard Business School. We sat down with Simeon to talk about what he is doing now and his time in Texas ECE.
Academy of Distinguished Alumni

Five Inducted into Texas ECE Academy of Distinguished Alumni

The Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to welcome the five newest members of the Academy of Distinguished Alumni. The inductees will be honored at an Academy dinner on November 8, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
Zhili Xiong

Zhili Xiong Wins Best Paper Award at FCCM

Zhili Xiong, a Ph.D. student in Texas ECE, recently received the Best Paper Award at the 32nd IEEE International Symposium On Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) for her work on "A Data-Driven, Congestion-Aware and Open-Source Timing-Driven FPGA Placer Accelerated by GPUs."
Texas Engineers Help Lead New Video AI Startup

Texas Engineers Help Lead New Video AI Startup

Cockrell School of Engineering faculty and alumni are playing critical roles in a startup that aims to use artificial intelligence to produce narrative short-form videos using libraries of existing, real-world footage.