Prof. Pan received the award for “contributions to design for manufacturing and physical design of integrated circuits and systems, and educating a diverse body of outstanding EDA professionals to industry.” 

Texas ECE alumna Jette Henderson was announced as the recipient of the 2019 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Doctoral Dissertation Award: Honorable Mention. AMIA "is committed to the science and practice of informatics as it relates to clinical care, research, education, and policy."  Dr.

 The team won for their paper "DREAMPlace: Deep Learning Toolkit-Enabled GPU Acceleration for Modern VLSI Placement." The Design Automation Conference is recognized as the premier conference for design and automation of electronic systems. 

In this research, Kulkarni, the principal investigator, along with his collaborator from Vanderbilt University plans to explore novel Phase Transition Materials (PTM) to improve the radiation hardness of CMOS logic and memory circuits. 

Texas ECE students Sam Kanawati and Sal Pathare took Third Place in the Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (TVLIC) on May 10, 2019. Lambert Labs aims to dramatically improve the affordability of blood glucose monitoring for diabetics worldwide.

Prof. Alex Dimakis and his collaborators have investigated a potential threat to text-comprehension AIs. “When we deploy these AIs and we have no idea what they’re really doing, I think it’s a little scary,” Dimakis says.

The study was led by Shijia Wei, a Ph.D. candidate in the Cockrell School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; his adviser, assistant professor Mohit Tiwari; and colleagues, professor Michael Orshansky and associate professor Andreas Gerstlauer. 

Texas ECE hosted the Spring Awards Banquet on Monday, May 6, 2019 to honor the achievements of students and recognize the contributions of faculty during the 2018-2019 academic year. Texas ECE alumnus Eric Feng gave the keynote address.

Christine Julien and Edison Thomaz are part of a team creating an app game that will focus on increasing exercise and weight monitoring in heart failure patients. 

Texas ECE graduate student, Amritesh Rai, was awarded the IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Individual Achievement Award at the 2019 IEEE Region 5 Annual Conference & Business Meeting held earlier this month in Lafayette, LA. Amritesh was awarded in recognition for his role as the IEEE Region 5 Young Professionals Chair, for helping with the regional logistics during the 2018 IEEE-USA Future Leaders Forum that was held in Austin, and for establishing the first-ever graduate student-led Chapter of IEEE in the whole of IEEE Region 5.