“It was really a quick turnaround because my friends and I were galvanized into action by the fact that we had found some way to help. We’d been in quarantine for quite some time and were itching to help,” Zhou said.

“I want to create the appropriate atmosphere to help graduates become the best version of themselves,” Saab stated.

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.

Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia led the study with first author and second-year graduate student Can Cui. Incorvia and Cui discovered that spacing magnetic nanowires, acting as artificial neurons, in certain ways naturally increases the ability for the artificial neurons to compete against each other, with the most activated ones winning out.

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The international award is given to one recipient annually who has shown "outstanding scientific or technical achievements which has been significantly beyond the average performance of a person at that career level."

Prof. Nan Sun of Texas ECE and two members of his research group were recognized with awards at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the premier conference in the integrated circuits design field.

After graduating from Texas ECE in 2010 with a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, Sowmiya Narayanan went on to co-found Lily AI — an AI-based software designed to enhance users’ online shopping experiences — and she now serves as its chief technology officer.

Texas ECE PhD students Jiaqi Gu, Zheng Zhao, Chenghao Feng, and Mingjie Liu, along with professors David Z. Pan and Ray Chen received the Best Paper Award at the 25th ACM/IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2020) for their paper "Towards Area-Efficient Optical Neural Networks: An FFT-based Architecture."