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Check out the new Texas ECE Magazine! Learn about our researchers making advances in healthcare, a profile of alumnus Kinesh Patel, a unique collaboration between ECE and the UT Dance department, an AI Tutor implemented in our courses, and more! bit.ly/3NmsDJi

Congratulations to Prof. David Z. Pan on being named a 2026 NVIDIA Research Faculty Fellow in recognition of exceptional contributions to research collaboration on Electronic Design Automation algorithms.

Jaydeep Kulkarni Elevated to IEEE Fellow Jaydeep Kulkarni, associate professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elevated to a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (I...

Congratulations to Jaydeep Kulkarni who has been elevated to a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2026 for "for contributions to low-power SRAM and compute-in-memory circuit technologies." bit.ly/4auMf7h

Jeff Andrews Wins IEEE Communications Society Technical Achievement Award Jeff Andrews, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as the winner of the 2025 IEEE Communications So...

Jeff Andrews has been selected as the winner of the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Technical Achievement Award for "contributions to the analysis and design of wireless cellular communication systems.” www.ece.utexas.edu/news/jeff-an...

Burghoff Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award David Burghoff, an assistant professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a 2025 Defense Advanced Research P...

Texas ECE assistant professor David Burghoff has been awarded a 2025 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA). bit.ly/3WRTwq0

In celebration of #VeteransDay we would like to honor and say thank you to these @utexasece.bsky.social faculty and staff who served the United States in the Armed Forces.
Join us in honoring Dan Book, Mark Innmon, Mark McDermott, Yale Patt, and Mychael Solis-Wheeler.

Yale Patt Wins Prestigious Okawa Prize Yale Patt has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Okawa Prize by the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. Patt was honored for “pioneering and outstanding research in high-performanc...

Yale Patt has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Okawa Prize by the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. Patt was honored for “pioneering and outstanding research in high-performance microprocessor architectures.” bit.ly/3LSa7HG @cockrellschool.bsky.social

New Transistor Design Expands 3D Memories Researchers in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a breakthrough in transistor design that reduces leakage curr...

Researchers at @utexasece.bsky.social have demonstrated a breakthrough in transistor design that reduces leakage current in very small geometry transistors by more than a factor of 10, essential for technologies like AI accelerators and neuromorphic circuits bit.ly/4otOCeZ

Congratulations to Jim Derryberry (not pictured), Deepu Talla, David Jarmon, Teresa Hastings, Steve Kush, and Howard Neal on their induction into the @utexasece.bsky.social Academy of Distinguished Alumni Friday night. @cockrellschool.bsky.social

Amazon Awards 15 UT Graduate Students AI Ph.D. Fellowships - UT-Amazon Science Hub

Four @utexasece.bsky.social students, Avinash Kumar, Mohammad Omama, Litu Rout, and Haoran Xu, have been named Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellows. sciencehub.utexas.edu/amazon-award...

Peihao Wang Named Stanford Rising Star in Data Science Texas ECE Ph.D. student Peihao Wang was named a Rising Star in Data Science by Stanford Data Science.

Texas ECE Ph.D. student Peihao Wang was named a Rising Star in Data Science by Stanford Data Science. Peihao is a final-year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Prof. Atlas Wang. bit.ly/48zvbMH

New AI Breakthroughs Bring 3D Imaging to the Patient's Bedside A research team led by Professor Radu Marculescu and PhD student Md Mostafijur Rahman in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have made great strides in the medical ima...

Thanks to groundbreaking AI research at The University of Texas at Austin, 3D medical imaging is becoming faster, smarter, and cheaper, making it accessible to hospitals and clinics everywhere and ushering in a new era of affordable, high-performance diagnostics.

Photo of students standing on a stage underneath the AMD logo

Texas ECE Ph.D. students toured the @AMD campus and showed off their research with the iMAGiNE Consortium. Big thanks to our friends at AMD for hosting us! Learn more about the iMAGiNE Consortium: bit.ly/48qSc4e

AI Tutor Helps First-Year Engineering Students Professor Nina Telang and students BP Rimal and Sneha Ballabh designed and implemented an AI-driven virtual tutor that creates personalized learning experiences for first-year engineering students in ...

Prof. Nina Telang along with alum BP Rimal and student Sneha Ballabh designed and implemented an AI-driven virtual tutor that creates personalized learning experiences for first-year engineering students in EE 306. bit.ly/3KAejLK

Texas ECE has multiple faculty openings with a start date of Fall 2026 for tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant professor level. Join a Top 10 program and help us change the world. More info: bit.ly/ece-hire

Can we get a hook 'em? 🤘 The U.S. News & World Report ranks our undergraduate electrical engineering program No. 9 in the nation, and our undergraduate computer engineering program No. 8 in the nation!

Neeraja Yadwadkar Receives Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award Texas ECE assistant professor Neeraja Yadwadkar has been selected to receive an inaugural 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award in recognition of the significance and promise of their work i...

Neeraja Yadwadkar has been selected to receive an inaugural 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award in recognition of the significance and promise of her work in Cloud ML Systems. www.ece.utexas.edu/news/neeraja...

Atlas Wang Receives NSF AIMing Award for AI Research Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang, associate professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation through the ...

Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang is part of a team that has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation through the Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning (AIMing) program. www.ece.utexas.edu/news/atlas-w...

Chowdhury, Kim Receive NSF CAREER Awards Texas ECE assistant professors Shwetadwip Chowdhury and Hyeji Kim have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Texas ECE assistant professors Shwetadwip Chowdhury and Hyeji Kim have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awardd from the National Science Foundation (NSF). www.ece.utexas.edu/news/chowdhu...

NSF announces $100 million investment in National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes awards to secure American leadership in AI The investment will accelerate open innovation, empower an AI-ready workforce and strengthen U.S. global competitiveness...

The Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (NSF IFML), led by The University of Texas at Austin, received a new award which will build on the trajectory of the past five years and develop new foundational tools to advance generative AI. www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-ann...

Nina Telang Joins Distinguished Leadership Service Academy Prof. Nina Telang of Texas ECE has been selected to join the prestigious Provost's Distinguished Leadership Service Academy (DLSA) at The University of Texas at Austin.

Congratulations to Prof. Nina Telang of @utexasece.bsky.social who has been selected to join the prestigious Provost's Distinguished Leadership Service Academy (DLSA) at The University of Texas at Austin. www.ece.utexas.edu/news/nina-te...

Can AI Make Critical Communications Chips Easier to Design? A multi-university team with heavy involvement from industry leaders is working to change that. The team, led by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, plans to infuse artificial intellig...

A multi-university team led by David Z. Pan with Amy Zhang and Sensen Li plans to infuse artificial intelligence into the design process for RFICs. Read more: www.ece.utexas.edu/news/can-ai-...

A Jolt of Innovation for Brain-Computer Interfaces Did you know it’s possible to control a robotic arm or a wheelchair with just your thoughts, through a device called a brain-computer interface (BCI)? But for many users, learning to operate these sys...

José del R. Millán of @utexasece.bsky.social is using a gentle electrical nudge to the spine to accelerate the learning process for BCIs www.ece.utexas.edu/news/jolt-in...

Researchers Receive Outstanding Paper Award at MLSys 2025 A paper published by students and faculty from the Chandra Family Department of Electrical Engineering in collaboration with Meta has received an Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention at MLSys 2025, the...

A paper published by @utexasece.bsky.social students and faculty in collaboration with Meta has received an Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention at MLSys 2025 www.ece.utexas.edu/news/researc...

Atlas Wang and Peihao Wang Receive DARPA Disruptive Idea Paper Award Associate professor Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang and ph.D. student Peihao Wang have received a DARPA Disruptive Idea Paper Award at the International Conference on Neuro-symbolic Systems (NeuS), 2025.

Associate professor Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang and Ph.D. student Peihao Wang have received a DARPA Disruptive Idea Paper Award at the International Conference on Neuro-symbolic Systems (NeuS), 2025. www.ece.utexas.edu/news/atlas-w...

From the Air Force to industry to UT, 78-Year old Chuck Corley earned his Ph.D. 11 years after joining Texas ECE, Charles J. (“Chuck”) Corley earned his Ph.D. in ECE in December 2024. He is the oldest person to ever earn a Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin. This Saturday...

From the Air Force to industry to @utexasece.bsky.social, 78-Year old Chuck Corley earned his Ph.D last December. Tomorrow, he will walk across the stage as the oldest person to ever earn a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. Read about his journey: bit.ly/corley-ece

Dan Jacobellis and Neeraja Yadwadkar Receive Best Paper Award at DCC 2025 Texas ECE graduate student Dan Jacobellis and assistant professor Neeraja Yadwadkar have received the Capocelli Prize for Best Paper at the Data Compression Conference (DCC) 2025.

Ph.D. student Dan Jacobellis and assistant professor Neeraja Yadwadkar have received the Capocelli Prize for Best Paper at the Data Compression Conference (DCC) 2025. www.ece.utexas.edu/news/dan-jac...

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Make your #UT40for40 gift today – your support helps @utexasece.bsky.social students prepare to change the world. bit.ly/4m9tqu0

The U.S. News & World Report ranks our graduate electrical and computer engineering programs in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering among the best in the nation once again. 🤘🤘

Women's History Month: Alumni Profile - Shanaz Hemmati Shanaz Hemmati received her BSEE from Texas ECE in 1985. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer of ZenBusiness. We caught up with Shanaz to learn about her time in Texas ECE and what she's doing now.

Alumna Shanaz Hemmati is the Chief Operating Officer of ZenBusiness. We spoke with Shanaz about her time in Texas ECE and her career thus far. Read more: www.ece.utexas.edu/news/womens-...