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.

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

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.

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

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.

Professor Bovik Wins Third of Four Major Signal Processing Awards Dr. Alan Bovik has received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Award, which is the society's highest honor for accomplishment in signal processing education. This award honors educators who have made pioneering and significant contributions to signal processing education. Dr.

Eleven ECE graduate students and one undergraduate student have won nine Best Paper awards between them this past year. This is an amazing accomplishment, says departmental chairman Tony Ambler. These awards come from major conferences. The competition is unbelievable. Some of these conferences only accept 20% of the papers submitted and to rise to the top of such a select group is a testament to the quality of our students' hard work.