New Faculty Join Texas ECE
Texas ECE will welcome seven new faculty members for 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 the academic years.
Texas ECE Students Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Competition 2020
The team of Khurram Mazher and Andrew Graff won for their project "Radar-to-radar Interference: System Level Analysis and Solutions."
There's a Sky Above the Sky: Astronaut Scholar Teddy Hsieh Takes Aim
Texas ECE and chemistry double major and Dean's Scholar Teddy Hsieh joins an exclusive club of 56 undergraduates from across the country to receive the 2020 Astronaut Scholarship.
UT Austin Selected as Home of National AI Institute Focused on Machine Learning
Alex Dimakis, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, will serve as the AI institute’s co-director. In addition to Dr. Dimakis, four other Texas ECE faculty will be involved in the institute: Dr. Al Bovik, Dr. Constantine Caramanis, Dr. Sujay Sanghavi, and Dr. Sanjay Shakkottai.
Designing Advanced Spintronic Materials with Giant Spin Hall Effect
Dr. Priyamvada Jadaun and associates at the Microelectronics Research Center and the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin have been researching SHE, the Spin Hall Effect
Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia Receives NSF Grant to Study All-Magnetic Probabilistic Computing
Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia of Texas ECE along with Prof. Supriyo Bandyopadhyay of Virginia Commonwealth University have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to study and demonstrate a system that will greatly reduce the hardware burden associated with generating correlations between two or more p-bit streams.
Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia Receives NSF MRI Grant
Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia (co-PI) of Texas ECE along with Prof. Xiaoqin Elaine Li (PI) of The University of Texas at Austin Department of Physics have received a NSF MRI grant for the development of a magneto-optical spectroscopy system for investigation of spintronic and quantum materials.
Prof. Radu Marculescu Paper Receives ESWEEK 2020 Test-of-Time Award
Their paper, "Key research problems in NoC design: a holistic perspective," was published at CODES 2005. The award will be presented during a virtual conference on September 22, 2020.
Texas ECE to Develop Power System for Lunar and Martian Bases
Prof. Alex Hanson of Texas ECE has partnered with Apogee Semiconductor, a Dallas-based startup, on a NASA contract to develop high-power energy management for planned lunar and Martian bases.
Prof. Alex Huang Receives IEEE PELS R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award
The IEEE PELS R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award was established in 2011 to "honor an individual who is judged to have accomplished outstanding contribution in the technical field of power electronics, within one or more subfields such as modeling & control, design-oriented analysis, development, simulation and application of electronic devices, passive components, analog sensing, and power circuits for inverters, converters and motor drives in all power levels."
