Prof. Lizy Kurian John along with Prof. Andreas Gerstlauer have received a grant for their project titled, ‘Adaptive Energy-Efficient Designs for Next Generation Smart Phone CPUs’ from Samsung Electronics through its 2015 Global Research Outreach (GRO) Program.

Professor Christine Julien will be awarded the prestigious 2015 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards this August. It is considered to be the highest teaching honor bestowed by the University of Texas System Board of Regents.

Prof. Alan Bovik along with Lark Kwon Choi have developed a no-reference perceptual fog density prediction model and a perceptual image defogging algorithm that are based on natural scene statistics (NSS) and fog aware statistical features.

The Cockrell School of Engineering has received $1 million from Qualcomm Incorporated, furthering the company’s support of Texas Engineering over the past two years. This latest gift will provide funding for the construction of the new home of UT Austin’s Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), which will be housed within the Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC), opening in 2017.

Nan Sun and David Pan received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations for their research project titled, ‘Automation for Synthesizable and Scaling Friendly Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits’. 

Nan Sun and Nanshu Lu received a grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate and implement stretchable planar antenna modulated by integrated circuit for the near field communication of epidermal electrophysiological sensors.

Ananth Dodabalapur has been appointed as the founding editor of Flexible and Printed Electronics (FPE). Flexible and Printed Electronics is a new addition to IOP Publishing’s materials and applied physics portfolios of journal.

Kayoung Lee and Avinash Nayak, doctoral students at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, have been awarded the Ben Streetman Prize for the academic year 2014-2015.

Prof. Joydeep Ghosh has been named the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for “foundational contributions to multi-learner systems.” 

The Cockrell School of Engineering awarded Dr. Alan Bovik, the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award for the academic year 2014 – 2015 for his outstanding achievements in the field of image and video quality engineering.