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.

Four Texas ECE undergraduate students have won Third Place in the Student Design Competition at IEEE International Microwave Symposium 2025 (IMS), the premier symposium in the microwave field. Mihir Chauduri, Carlos Rodriguez, Edgar Rodriguez, and John Yi won for their work on the Switched Acoustic Filter Module.

Ph.D. student Wenyan Cong and others won the Best Paper Award at at the AI for Content Creation (AI4CC) Workshop, held at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference 2025 (CVPR), one of the top conferences in computer vision. The award was for her work on “VideoLifter: Lifting Videos to 3D with Fast Hierarchical Stereo Alignment.”

Did you know it’s possible to control a robotic arm or a wheelchair with just your thoughts, through a device called a brain-computer interface (BCI)? But for many users, learning to operate these systems is slow, difficult and, in some cases, unattainable. José del R. Millán has discovered a novel way to accelerate this learning process: a gentle electrical nudge to the spine before BCI training.

Published by Cockrell School of Engineering