Texas ECE assistant professor Neeraja Yadwadkar has been selected to receive an inaugural 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award in recognition of the significance and promise of their work in Cloud ML Systems.

Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang, associate professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation through the Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning (AIMing) program.

Texas ECE assistant professors Shwetadwip Chowdhury and Hyeji Kim have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

NSF IFML is part of the first cohort of AI Institutes announced in 2020. Led by The University of Texas at Austin, the new award will build on the trajectory of the past five years and develop new foundational tools to advance generative AI.

The University of Texas at Austin chapter of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) recently won the Vex AI World Championship in Houston, Texas.