Sinwoo Cho Receives 2025 MTT-S Graduate Fellowship
Texas ECE Ph.D. student Sinwoo Cho has received a 2025 MTT-S Graduate Fellowship from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society.
In Memoriam: Derek Chiou
Derek Chiou, Professor at The University of Texas at Austin’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, died while traveling to be with family on December 26, 2024. The Texas ECE community mourns this tragic loss.
Alumni Profile: Max Dauber
Max Dauber received his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin in 2021. He works as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer & Tech Lead at Primer AI. We sat down with Max to find out more about his time in Texas ECE, and what he is doing now.
Texas Engineers Seek to Shed Light on Life's Building Blocks with Advanced Imaging
Shwetadwip Chowdhury, assistant professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, received a National Institutes of Health grant for $1.8 million over five years to study how complex organisms develop.
Bovik Wins Fritz Medal for Streaming Innovations
Streaming video pioneer Al Bovik has been awarded the John Fritz Medal, one of the most storied and esteemed honors in engineering.
Bovik, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recognized for “foundational contributions to the theoretical and engineering aspects of perceptual picture and video quality prediction, leading to systems that ensure optimized visual quality for hundreds of millions of viewers daily.”
The Year Without Yerraballi
Prof. Ramesh Yerraballi has been one of the most popular professors among students in Texas ECE for the better part of 17 years. For the first time in 17 years, there was no Yerraballi for the 23-24 academic year. Where did he go?
AI in the GI
The odds of getting colorectal cancer in America are 1 in 25 for women and 1 in 23 for men. Polyps, which are precursors to cancer, can be found and removed with colonoscopies — 15 million of which are performed in the U.S. annually. Colonoscopies are also critical to the diagnosis of Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and other colon and rectal diseases.
Texas Engineers Part of Huge NSF Semiconductor Program
Texas Engineers will develop next-generation semiconductor technologies as part of a collaboration of the National Science Foundation and leading industry companies.
NSF and partners Ericsson, Intel Corporation, Micron Technology and Samsung awarded $42.4 million for its Future of Semiconductors (NSF FuSe2) competition. Four of the 23 projects picked for this program were either led or supported by faculty members from the Cockrell School.
Ruochen Lu Receives IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award
Assistant professor Ruochen Lu has been selected to receive the 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award.
Alumni Profile: Madeline Vega
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we sat down with Madeline Vega to find out more about her, her time in Texas ECE, and what she is doing now.
