Staff Profile: Maria Saldivar
We sat down with Texas ECE senior events coordinator Maria Saldivar to talk about her experiences working in the department and what her Hispanic heritage means to her.
Student Profile: Alejandro Ontiveros
Alejandro Ontiveros is a junior in Texas ECE. He serves as the Community Outreach Director for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). He is pursuing the Embedded Systems and Computer Architecture technical core. We sat down with Alejandro to learn more about his student experience in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Yaoyao Jia and Nanshu Lu Receive NIH Grant To Create New Kind of Wireless Wearable Blood Pressure Monitor
Yaoyao Jia and Nanshu Lu of Texas ECE are heading a research team that received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to create paradigm-shifting ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) device based on biomechanics-guided wireless ultrasound sensors.
Undergraduate Advising Office Named 2024 NACADA Outstanding Advising Program
The undergraduate advising office of the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been named the 2024 Outstanding Advising Program by NACADA.
Lillian Chin and Kaushik Chowdhury Join Texas ECE Faculty
Texas ECE is proud to announce the arrival of professor Kaushik Chowdhury and assistant professor Lillian Chin to the faculty of the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Three Texas ECE Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards for 2024
Three Texas ECE faculty, Ruochen Lu, Aryan Mokhtari, and Amy Zhang, have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Amy Zhang Receives Army Research Office Award
Assistant professor Amy Zhang of Texas ECE received an Army Research Office award for her research project “Combinatorial Generalization through Search-based Planning and Reinforcement Learning” to advance the ability of cyber physical systems to navigate unknown environments, manipulate objects and team with other agents in the open world.
Ruochen Lu and Neal Hall Receive DARPA Award
Texas ECE professors Ruochen Lu and Neal Hall received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) award for the research project “Integrated Sensors at High Temperature Using Transferred Piezoelectric Transducers and Epitaxial Transistors” that is developing high performance physical sensors with long lifespans, capable of performing in thermally harsh environments.
Two Texas ECE Faculty Receive FuSe2 Awards
Texas ECE professors Jean Anne Incorvia and Lizy John have each received a Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2) grant. The FuSe2 program Supports collaborative research and education in partnership with industry on domain-specific computing, heterogenous integration, and new materials for energy-efficient, enhanced-performance and sustainable semiconductor-based systems.
Junyuan Hong Named Best Paper Award Finalist at VLDB2024
Texas ECE postdoctoral fellow Junyuan Hong has been named a Best Paper Award Finalist from the 50th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2024) which took place in Guangzhou, China from August 26-30, 2024. The award was for the paper "LLM-PBE: Assessing Data Privacy in Large Language Models." It was co-authored with Junyuan's advisor, Prof. Atlas Wang, as well as colleagues from The University of California, Berkeley, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The University of Chicago and the National University of Singapore.
