Profs. Sujay Sanghavi and Deji Akinwande Receive Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Young Investigator Awards

UT ECE professors Sujay Sanghavi and Deji Akinwande have received Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Young Investigator Awards. Each year DTRA makes 10- 15 Young Investigator Awards nationally to researchers from various science and engineering fields.

DTRA will support Dr. Sanghavi's research into how epidemic-like processes or cascades spread on networks. The work is likely to enhance our understanding of biological, social and computer networks and lead to novel network design techniques that guarantee resilience and robustness to cascades.

Prof. Andreas Gerstlauer and Collaborators Awarded National Science Foundation Grant

UT ECE professor Andreas Gerstlauer and his co-investigator Professor Robert van de Geijn in Computer Science have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the Algorithm/Architecture Co-Design of Low Power and High Performance Linear Algebra Compute Fabrics.

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Prof. Sanjay Shakkottai Awarded National Science Foundation Grant

UT ECE professor Sanjay Shakkottai has been awarded an NSF grant for his work on Information Architectures for Femto-Aided Cellular Networks. Prof. Shakkottai is the lead PI on the $1.13 milion grant along with other PIs from Cornell University and Rice University.

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UT ECE Student Jackson Massey wins the Best Student Paper Award at BEMS 2012

UT ECE graduate student Jackson Massey recently won the Best Student Paper award at the 34th Annual Conference of the Bioelectromagnetics Society held at Brisbane, Australia, June 17-22. Jackson’s paper was entitled, “AustinMan and AustinWoman: High fidelity, reproducible, and open-source electromagnetic voxel models”. The paper describes the development of mm-scale resolution anatomically accurate human models, which enable researchers to investigate the response of our bodies to radio-frequency fields generated by wireless devices. The paper was co-authored by Prof.

UT ECE Announces Dr. Alex Dimakis Will Join Faculty in 2013

UT ECE is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Alex Dimakis to the UT ECE faculty beginning on January 1, 2013. Alex Dimakis received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2008 in EECS. He was a post-doc at Caltech from 2008 -2009. Since 2009, he has been a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. Alex Dimakis’s research focuses on distributed storage for Cloud storage, and more broadly, algorithms for computation and communication in large system distributed systems.

UT ECE Announces Dr. Mohit Tiwari Will Join Faculty in 2013

UT ECE is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Mohit Tiwari to our faculty beginning in August 2013. Mohit Tiwari received his B.Tech. from IIT Guwahati and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Barbara in Computer Science in 2005, 2010 , and 2011, respectively. Since then he has been an NSF Computing Innovation post-doctoral Fellow at Berkeley. Mohit’s research is in cybersecurity, with a focus on computing systems. His work spans hardware design, processor architecture, embedded systems, and cloud computing.

Prof. Derek Chiou Awarded NSF Grant for Work on the FAbRIC (FPGA Research Infrastructure Cloud) Project

UT ECE professor Derek Chiou has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his work on the FAbRIC (FPGA Research Infrastructure Cloud) project.

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UT ECE Recognizes Staff for Outstanding Service

UT ECE recognized outstanding milestones in the service of the department in a ceremony on Tuesday, May 23rd. The department would like to thank all of our staff celebrating milestones in 2012.

We would also like to recognize Diana Perez, who will be retiring from the department on May 31st after 32 years of service. Diana has played a pivotal role in the success of UT ECE and will be greatly missed. She joined UT ECE in 1980, working with the Undergraduate Advising Office for 18 years before moving to the Chairman's office.

Happy 39th Birthday Ethernet!

39 years ago today, UT ECE professor Bob Metcalfe was a part of the team at XEROX who helped develop Ethernet. Dr. Metcalfe recently sat down to discuss the formation of Ethernet and how it has evolved over the past 39 years.

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Prof. Bob Metcalfe Delivers Commencement Address at Spring 2012 Engineering Commencement Ceremony

UT ECE professor Bob Metcalfe delivered the keynote address Spring 2012 Cockrell School of Engineering Commencement ceremony Friday, May 18. Prof. Metcalfe's address was entitled The Grand Challenges. Click the link below to read the transcript of his address.

Cockrell Commencement Address: The Grand Challenges

See photos from the graduation ceremony