Zheng Wang, assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named to MIT Technology Review’s list of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 (TR35) for his health-related discoveries.

A panel of experts and Technology Review editorial staffers chose Wang from a pool of 250 nominees for the global list, which highlights young innovators who are changing the world. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was a winner in 2007.

UT ECE professor Deji Akwinwande has been awarded the first Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize during the gala dinner at the IEEE nano conference in Birmingham, UK. The award recognizes Deji’s work on flexible multifinger graphene device technology and in particular his invention of graphene transistors for high speed high frequency flexible nano electronics. Graphene transistors on flexible substrates could enable future flexible smart systems. The prize is named in honor of the 2010 Nobel laureates for graphene discovery.

UT ECE professor Surya Santoso has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for research on A Metric for Measuring and Quantifying Wind Power Variability. Dr. Santoso is collaborating on the work with Dr. David Morton of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

UT ECE professor Robert Heath has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his work on Interference Modeling and Management for Heterogenous Networks. Prof. Heath is the sole PI on this $313,000 grant.

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UT ECE professors Andreas Gerstlauer and Lizy John have recently beenawarded a competitive 3-year research contract from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), one of the world's leading industry research consortia, to study Multi-dimensional Modeling, Design and Exploration of Heterogeneous Multicore SoCs.

UT ECE professor David Pan has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study Design for Manufacturability in Extreme Scaling with Emerging Nanolithography.

UT ECE graduate student Jason Soric won third place among 200 papers in the international competition at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting held July 8-14, 2012 in Chicago. The event represents the premier international symposium in the field of antennas and propagation. The paper was entitled Experimental demonstration of a conformal mantle cloak for radio frequencies.

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.

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 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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