Researchers at the University of Texas Austin have developed a new method to design NAS models and predict their success and accuracy that eliminates the high costs and delays associated with their training.

Texas ECE alumna Wei Ye has been selected to receive the 2022 EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award by the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) for her dissertation "Design for Manufacturability and Reliability through Learning and Optimization."

The findings, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, highlight the problems that arise when data published for one task are used to train algorithms for a different one. Jonathan Tamir, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering and a member of the UT-led National Science Foundation AI Institute for the Foundations of Machine Learning, is one of the study’s co-authors.

Five Texas ECE faculty, Alex Hanson, Brian Johnson, Jaydeep Kulkarni, August Shi, and Atlas Wang have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Along with Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia, Assistant Professor at UT, and her team, Dr. Jadaun has designed and simulated the first artificial neuron (a cell in the brain) whose functioning can be regulated, realizing neuromodulation. Their work uses magnetic textures called skyrmions as they are small, stable, and versatile and will be presented at APS March Meeting 2022

Landon Watson will receive his BSEE from Texas ECE this Spring. We sat down with Landon to discuss his time in ECE and his future plans.

Khadir Richie received his BS  in Electrical Engineering from Texas ECE. He went on to earn an MBA from the presitigous Wharton School at Penn. He is the Chief Investment Officer at Richie Capital Group in Austin, Texas. We sat down with Khadir to talk about his time in ECE and transitioning from engineering into the business and finance world.

Vittorio Adeagbo is a 4th year ECE student in the Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology track from Desoto, Texas. He is the Programs Chair for the UT Austin chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (UTNSBE).

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that Alan Bovik, professor and Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair in Engineering #3 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected to the prestigious academy this year. Prof. Bovik was elected "for contributions to the development of tools for image and video quality assessment."

Shanshan Xie, PhD candidate in Texas ECE, has been awarded the 2021-2022 Predoctoral Achievement Award by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (IEEE SSCS) and is award is given to promising graduate students in the area of solid-state circuits.