Texas ECE Grad Student Peihao Wang Receives Google PhD Fellowship
Texas ECE graduate student Peihao Wang has received a 2025 Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning and ML Foundations.
Neeraja Yadwadkar Receives Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award
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.
Atlas Wang Receives NSF AIMing Award for AI Research
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.
Chowdhury, Kim Receive NSF CAREER Awards
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).
Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning Awarded NSF AI Research Institute Grant
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.
IEEE RAS Wins Vex AI World Championship
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.
Deepu Talla
Deepu Talla serves as Vice President of Robotics and Edge AI at NVIDIA, where he leads the deployment of AI technology in autonomous machines and intelligent devices, including humanoids, industrial robots, autonomous mobile robots, intelligent video analytics, and factory automation. Over the past decade, he has helped shape NVIDIA’s physical AI and robotics platforms, such as NVIDIA Isaac, NVIDIA Metropolis, and NVIDIA Jetson.
Howard Neal
Howard Neal retired from Schlumberger Ltd. after a 23-year career in which he served in several leadership positions. He was Vice President of Engineering at the Schlumberger Austin Systems Center and was responsible for developing hardware and software solutions for oilfield data acquisition and interpretation systems. He also served as Vice President of Marketing at the Wireline, Testing, and Anadrill Division of Schlumberger, located in New York.
Steve Kush
Stephen T. Kush is a founder and CEO of Catalysis Inc., a global consulting firm specializing in applying health care date to clinical research.. Steve has BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and over 40 years of engineering, manufacturing and management experience in the US, Japan, and Europe. The list of organizations that he has worked for includes Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Texas Instruments, Sperry Flight Systems and Schlumberger.
David Jarmon
David Jarmon is an entrepreneur and technology executive whose career spans multiple startups in custom chip design and technology licensing. After earning his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, David began his career at a chip design automation startup founded by a UT ECE instructor, setting the stage for decades of work at a half-dozen startups operating at the intersection of engineering problem solving and customer-driven innovation.
