Prof. David Pan and his students Wuxi Li and Shounak Dhar for won 1st Place in the CAD Contest on FPGA Placement at the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD). The contest was run by Xilinx and involved a challenging industry-style benchmarks and evaluating scripts. Nineteen teams from around the world participated. The top five teams were invited to ISPD 2016. ISPD is the premier symposium dedicated to IC physical design and related areas.

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Prof. Milos Gligoric has been named the recipient of the 2015 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. The [ACM] SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the area of Software Engineering.

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Prof. Heath and his co-authors were recognized for their paper “Five disruptive technology directions for 5G."

Prof. Alù was selected for "Ultralow Power, Ultrafast, Integrated Nano-optoelectronics" from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Prof. Ray Chen has been awarded a Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award in Attojoule Nanooptoelectronics.

Texas ECE alumnus Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos has received a 2015 Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for a paper co-authored with Texas ECE Associate Professor Alex Dimakis entitled "Interference Alignment as a Rank Constrained Rank Minimization." The award was presented at the Society’s awards ceremony at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Shanghai, China.

Texas ECE PhD student Sungmin Cho and his advisor Christine Julien received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at PerCom 2016, held on March 14-18, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Percom is the premier conference in pervasive computing and communications. The pair was recognized for the paper "CHITCHAT: Navigating Tradeoffs in Device-to-Device Context Sharing." The Mark Weiser Best Paper award is given to a single paper in the selective PerCom conference based on a combination of the paper and its presentation at the conference.

Texas ECE PhD candidate Yuhao Zhu has been named a recipient of a 2016 Google PhD Fellowship in Mobile Computing. In 2009, Google created the PhD Fellowship program "to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related disciplines. Now in its seventh year, our fellowship programs have collectively supported over 200 graduate students in Australia, China and East Asia, India, North America, Europe and the Middle East who seek to shape and influence the future of technology."

Texas ECE postdoctoral researcher Yakir Hadad has been named the recipient of the Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics from The European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP). The award was originally established jointly by the University of Siena and the University of Sannio, funded through a donation from Michael and Judy Felsen in fulfillment of the last wishes of their father, Professor Leo Felsen (1924-2005).  The main purpose of the EurAAP Felsen Award is "to keep alive Prof.