Nan Sun and David Pan received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations for their research project titled, ‘Automation for Synthesizable and Scaling Friendly Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits’. 

Nan Sun and Nanshu Lu received a grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate and implement stretchable planar antenna modulated by integrated circuit for the near field communication of epidermal electrophysiological sensors.

Ananth Dodabalapur has been appointed as the founding editor of Flexible and Printed Electronics (FPE). Flexible and Printed Electronics is a new addition to IOP Publishing’s materials and applied physics portfolios of journal.

Kayoung Lee and Avinash Nayak, doctoral students at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, have been awarded the Ben Streetman Prize for the academic year 2014-2015.

Prof. Joydeep Ghosh has been named the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for “foundational contributions to multi-learner systems.” 

The Cockrell School of Engineering awarded Dr. Alan Bovik, the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award for the academic year 2014 – 2015 for his outstanding achievements in the field of image and video quality engineering.

UT ECE alumnus, Chris Chuter recently announced the launch of Peeple, a Wi-Fi enabled smart camera that can be attached to the peephole of the main door to monitor and secure the main entrance of the house

ChemSense was one of seven engineering projects highlighted by Smithsonian.com as looking "particularly promising for changing people’s lives."

Prof. Jeff Andrews has been named the 2015 recipient of the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education and the Hewlett-Packard Company. 

Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi has been named the 2015 recipient of the Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN).