Gary Hallock Wins High Gain Award

ECE's External Advisory Committee recognized Professor Gary Hallock with the annual High Gain Award. The High Gain Award was established to recognize exceptional contributions to the mission of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Gary is an inspiring teacher and a stalwart champion for the Department. says Chairman Tony Ambler. In the past year alone, he developed an undergraduate course and revamped our graduate recruitment efforts. He always steps up.

Seeing with Radar

Professor Hao Ling and his team are developing algorithms that would use radar to detect human activities inside an enclosed space, such as inside a building. The algorithms would convert the radar signals to virtual renderings similar to that of a video game. Eventually, the technology could end up in a device that could be mounted on a vehicle and would monitor activities in a building as it traveled down a street.

Two ECE Professors Receive DARPA Young Faculty Awards

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that two of UT-ECE's assistant professors have been awarded 2008 Young Faculty Awards. The awards were established to identify the next generation of researchers working in microsystems technology.

Dr. Banerjee Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Professor Sanjay Banerjee was named a 2007 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society. AAAS fellows are chosen annually by their peers to recognize their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

ECE Ph.D. Candidate Wins Inaugural Engineering Graduate Student Leadership Award

ECE Ph.D. Candidate Wins Inaugural Engineering Graduate Student Leadership Award

ECE Grad Student Wins Humantech Paper Contest

Chan-Byoung Chae, supervised by Prof. Robert W. Heath, Jr., was awarded the Gold prize in the 2007 Humantech paper contest sponsored by Samsung. The contest receives about 900 submissions every year in fields including signal processing, analog circuit design, communications and networks, computer science, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, material science and process, physical devices, and physical science. Only six graduate students are awarded the Gold prize annually, and thirty four graduate students share the Silver, Bronze and honor prizes.

Bill Gates Visits UT

Microsoft's chairman gave a lecture entitled Bill Gates Unplugged: on Software, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Giving Back to computer science and ECE majors on Wednesday, Feb 20th at 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM in the Texas Union Ballroom.

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Dr. Chiou Receives NSF CAREER Award

Professor Derek Chiou has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award for his proposal entitled Transforming Computer System Design. 

ECE Alumnus, Clint Slatton, Wins US PECASE Award

UT-ECE alumnus (M.S. 1999, Ph.D. 2001) Dr. Clint Slatton, now a professor at the University of Florida, was named a 2006 winner of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE award is the highest honor bestowed by the US Government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. The title of his proposal was Prediction of Diffractive and Non-Diffractive Propagation in Forested Terrain by Combining Probabilistic and Physical Modeling. His PhD advisors at UT Austin were Prof. Brian Evans (ECE) and Prof. Melba Crawford (Mech.

ECE Advisor Wins Another Excellence Award