Renowned French mathematician and engineer Francois Baccelli joins The University of Texas at Austin this fall as the first Simons Chair in Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Dr. Baccelli is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a cutting edge researcher at the intersection of mathematics, telecommunications, and information theory. As part of the appointment, he will develop a new Center in Information and Network Science.

UT ECE professor Vijay Janapa Reddi has been awarded a competitive Google Research Award with the initiative of achieving High Performance and Energy Efficient Mobile Web Browsing.

UT ECE graduate student Chris Slaughter and his five-person engineering team are developing software for a 3-D modeling camera that can capture and help accurately render all the 3-D surfaces in a room. Chris has participated in the Austin Technology Incubator Student Entrepreneur Acceleration and Launch (SEAL) program to help turn his ideas into a company, Lynx Laboratories.

Chris has worked with UT ECE professor Sriram Vishwanath, who teaches and encourages business-minded young engineers.

UT ECE professor Vijay Janapa Reddi has been awarded awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate Cross-Layer Solutions for Sustainable and Reliable Computing Systems with Co-PI Dr. Lizy John.

Zheng Wang, assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named to MIT Technology Review’s list of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 (TR35) for his health-related discoveries.

A panel of experts and Technology Review editorial staffers chose Wang from a pool of 250 nominees for the global list, which highlights young innovators who are changing the world. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was a winner in 2007.

UT ECE professor Deji Akwinwande has been awarded the first Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize during the gala dinner at the IEEE nano conference in Birmingham, UK. The award recognizes Deji’s work on flexible multifinger graphene device technology and in particular his invention of graphene transistors for high speed high frequency flexible nano electronics. Graphene transistors on flexible substrates could enable future flexible smart systems. The prize is named in honor of the 2010 Nobel laureates for graphene discovery.

UT ECE professor Surya Santoso has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for research on A Metric for Measuring and Quantifying Wind Power Variability. Dr. Santoso is collaborating on the work with Dr. David Morton of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

UT ECE professor Robert Heath has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his work on Interference Modeling and Management for Heterogenous Networks. Prof. Heath is the sole PI on this $313,000 grant.

The abstract for the grant reads:

UT ECE professors Andreas Gerstlauer and Lizy John have recently beenawarded a competitive 3-year research contract from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), one of the world's leading industry research consortia, to study Multi-dimensional Modeling, Design and Exploration of Heterogeneous Multicore SoCs.

UT ECE graduate student Jason Soric won third place among 200 papers in the international competition at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting held July 8-14, 2012 in Chicago. The event represents the premier international symposium in the field of antennas and propagation. The paper was entitled Experimental demonstration of a conformal mantle cloak for radio frequencies.