Texas ECE professor Jacob Abraham, has received the IEEE Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC) Lifetime Contribution Medal. The IEEE TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal is presented to a prominent individual for outstanding technical contributions that have made a fundamental impact on test technology.

Texas ECE Professor Vijay Garg and his former PhD student Himanshu Chauhan received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Runtime Verification 2017 (RV’17), held September 13th–16th in Seattle, Washington. The Runtime Verification event originated as a workshop in 2001, and is now an international conference, held annually since 2010. The award recognizes their paper “Space Efficient Breadth-First and Level Traversals of Consistent Global States of Parallel Programs.”

In modern society, robots and humans are becoming increasingly integrated. Already, robots assist people in factories, hospitals and households, as well as share the roads. These collaborations raise demands for technological innovation and research to develop and enable friendly robots that can work effectively with, for and around people.

Texas ECE Professor Al Bovik’s neuroscience-based Visual Information Fidelity (VIF)picture quality measurement tool has been built into the core of Netflix’s quality system which controls the quality of every video streamed by Netflix to all customers world-wide.

Evdokia Nikolova, Assistant Professor in Texas ECE, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for her work on "AitF: Collaborative Research: Algorithms and Mechanisms for the Distribution Grid.”  

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin have received a $15.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to discover and advance new types of materials for use in many applications including energy storage, medical devices and information processing.

Prof. Sanjay Banerjee, Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a recipient of one of two  2017 University Research Awards awarded by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), in consultation with the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).

The UT Austin Villa team won 3rd prize at the RoboCup@Home 2017 competition in Nagoya, in the category of Domestic Standard Platform League.

This bill is the first step in a broader strategy to improve the acquisition of IT capabilities across all state agencies. This will allow the state to become more efficient, effective, transparent, accountable, less wasteful and continue to provide excellent services to the citizens of Texas. 

The University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team is competing 3 days of racing in the Formula Sun Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas. Listen to the feature by KUT Austin.