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Tamir and Wang

Prof. Jon Tamir and Atlas Wang have received Google Research Scholar Awards for 2023. The Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google.
Bovik

Prof. Alan Bovik has been elected to the Academia Europaea for 2023 for his contributions to video engineering. 
Jack Kramer

Texas ECE PhD student Jack Kramer has received the Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS) 2023 for his work on "Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Acoustic Resonator with High Q of 237 and k2 of 5.1% at 50.74 GHz.”
Chen Lab-on-a-Chip

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, accurate testing remains a challenge, even more so as the virus has mutated over time, becoming more contagious with symptoms that are hard to tell apart from other illnesses. A new diagnostic device that can differentiate between COVID-19 and the flu, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at

Rubio

It is an exciting time for The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) graduates this month who are donning black caps and gowns as they graduate from one of the top 10 public universities in the country!

One of these amazing students is Jan Carlos Rubio, who just earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering. Rubio says

Emissions

An alliance of nine universities, three national labs and 37 companies will tackle one of the biggest hurdles to decarbonizing manufacturing: carbon dioxide emissions from generating process heat.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin will play a significant role in the effort that aims to replace the energy source that powers most

Lizy John

Lizy John, professor in Texas ECE, has been selected to receive the 2023 Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award from the Cockrell School of Engineering. 
Neeley Pate

Neeley Pate, 2023 graduate of the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award from the Cockrell School of Engineering.
Atlas Wang

The magazine’s popular biennial award, established by the magazine in 2006 in honor of AI’s 50-year anniversary, celebrates young professionals for their early career accomplishments in a field that is also still rather new.

NSF CAREER Winner s 2023

Three Texas ECE faculty, Jon Tamir, Edison Thomaz, and Yaoyao Jia, have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).