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Student Profile: Melanie Saenzpardo

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Melanie Saenzpardo is a second-year undergraduate from El Paso, Texas. She joined the Texas ECE Honors program in Fall 2021. She serves as secretary of the UT Austin Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. We sat down with Melanie to learn more about her student experience in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Staff Profile: Nikki Rodelas Morris

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Nikki Rodelas Morris is an Academic Advisor in Texas ECE. We sat down to speak with her in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Kulkarni Wins SRC Innovation Award

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The newly introduced Innovation Award recognizes Patents and IP arising from SRC research that has made a significant impact on the semiconductor industry.

Three Texas ECE Teams Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships

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Three teams from Texas ECE have been named winners of 2022 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships for North America.

Texas ECE Team Wins Synopsys Optical Design Competition Award

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The team received an award for their project titled, “A compact 4×4 butterfly-style silicon photonic-electronic neural chip for hardware-efficient deep learning.” They used Synopsys Photonic Solutions software to design a chip that supports an optical neural network for next-generation neurocomputing.

PhD Student Jack Kramer Receives IC-MAM Best Student Paper Award

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Texas ECE PhD student Jack Kramer has received the Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics (IC-MAM) 2022 for his work on "Acoustic Wave Focusing Lens at Radio Frequencies in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate." Kramer is supervised by Prof.

Atlas Wang Receives INNS 2021 Aharon Katzir Young Investigator Award

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The Aharon Katzir Young Investigator Award is conferred on up to two exceptionally promising young investigators in the field of neural networks.

UT Austin and SwRI Support Five Collaborative Energy Research Projects

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The University of Texas at Austin and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have selected five projects to be funded by the Energize Program, a new opportunity for enhanced scientific collaboration between the two institutions focused on energy research.

“I have no doubt that with the combined capabilities and expertise of SwRI and UT Austin, these projects will have a strong, positive impact on some of our greatest challenges in the energy sector,” said SwRI Executive Vice President and COO Walt Downing.

Graphene Synapses Advance Brain-Like Computers

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Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin developed synaptic transistors for brain-like computers using the thin, flexible material graphene. These transistors are similar to synapses in the brain, that connect neurons to each other.

Brian Evans Receives Prestigious Civitatis Award

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His tremendous efforts over the last 15 years of university-wide service were recognized by the university with the Civitatis Award. The Civitatis Award was established in 1997 to recognize outstanding faculty citizenship. It is conferred upon a member of the UT faculty in recognition of dedicated and meritorious service to the university above and beyond the regular expectations of teaching, research and service.

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