Texas ECE held a Virtual Honors event on Wednesday, May 20 to honor students and faculty for their successes and contributions during the 2019-2020 academic year.

Texas ECE is on the front lines of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our researchers are racing to develop innovations to support the fight against COVID-19.

Two student teams in Prof. Jaydeep Kulkarni’s 382M.8 VLSI-II course won the inaugural Intel Outstanding ASIC Design Contest for their excellent performance in the final class project.  A team of experts headed by Dr. Prashant Joshi from Intel Austin Design Center served as judges for this design contest.

They plan to develop novel BEOL transistor technologies to realize low power, high density, 3-D stacked SRAM technologies which can potentially address energy efficient data storage needs of next generation Integrated Circuits.

“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."