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Two Texas ECE Alumni Join National Academy of Engineering
Michael Krames and Mark Papermaster, alumni from the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors in the engineering field.
Ruisi Cai Receives 2025 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
Texas ECE Ph.D. student Ruisi Cai has received a 2025 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship.
Sinwoo Cho Receives 2025 MTT-S Graduate Fellowship
Texas ECE Ph.D. student Sinwoo Cho has received a 2025 MTT-S Graduate Fellowship from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society.
In Memoriam: Derek Chiou
Derek Chiou, Professor at The University of Texas at Austin’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, died while traveling to be with family on December 26, 2024. The Texas ECE community mourns this tragic loss.
Alumni Profile: Max Dauber
Max Dauber received his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin in 2021. He works as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer & Tech Lead at Primer AI. We sat down with Max to find out more about his time in Texas ECE, and what he is doing now.
Texas Engineers Seek to Shed Light on Life's Building Blocks with Advanced Imaging
Shwetadwip Chowdhury, assistant professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, received a National Institutes of Health grant for $1.8 million over five years to study how complex organisms develop.
Bovik Wins Fritz Medal for Streaming Innovations
Streaming video pioneer Al Bovik has been awarded the John Fritz Medal, one of the most storied and esteemed honors in engineering.
Bovik, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recognized for “foundational contributions to the theoretical and engineering aspects of
The Year Without Yerraballi
Prof. Ramesh Yerraballi has been one of the most popular professors among students in Texas ECE for the better part of 17 years. For the first time in 17 years, there was no Yerraballi for the 23-24 academic year. Where did he go?
AI in the GI
The odds of getting colorectal cancer in America are 1 in 25 for women and 1 in 23 for men. Polyps, which are precursors to cancer, can be found and removed with colonoscopies — 15 million of which are performed in the U.S. annually. Colonoscopies are also critical to the diagnosis of Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and other colon and rectal
