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.

Alex Dimakis of Texas ECE has been invited to serve as a member of the AI Commission of the US Chamber of Commerce.

Hao Chen, a PhD student in Texas ECE, has received an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship for his work on "Developing next-generation VLSI physical synthesis tools capable of generating sign-off quality layouts in advanced manufacturing nodes, particularly in analog/mixed-signal circuits."

Alex Hanson of Texas ECE has been named a recipient of a Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for his work on "Compact Pulsed Power Systems Using GaN Devices and High-Efficiency Magnetic Structures."

David Z. Pan, professor in Texas ECE, has been named a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2021. Dr. Pan becomes the fifth ACM Fellow among current Texas ECE faculty.

An international team led by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered new and exotic properties of graphene when it is manipulated in such a way to become a moiré material.