Prof. Nina Telang of Texas ECE has been selected to join the prestigious Provost's Distinguished Leadership Service Academy (DLSA) at The University of Texas at Austin.

The DLSA provides a formal organization of distinguished senior professional-track and tenured faculty members with extraordinary contributions and accomplishments across their professional portfolios and particularly in terms of their excellence in leadership, mentoring and service to their college or school, the university, the state and the nation.

The DLSA recognize and rewards outstanding faculty members for extraordinary leadership service and mentoring to students, their department, their school/college, the university, and broader communities. It fosters and promotes leadership training for UT faculty colleagues that focuses on service and mentoring-related topics and provides opportunities for other faculty, staff and students to learn how to develop balanced professional portfolios that integrate excellence in scholarship, teaching, mentoring and service.

Prof. Telang is the first member from the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the second member from the Cockrell School of Engineering.

Nina Telang is a Professor of Instruction and Fellow of the Jack Kilby/Texas Instruments Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the university of Texas at Austin.