Texas ECE PhD student Ian Anderson led a team that won the Outstanding Poster Award at the 2026 Hilton Head Workshop (Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop), held May 31–June 4 on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, for their paper on "Enabling Lithium Niobate Phononic Frequency Combs via Thermal Engineering and Design." Ian is part of Prof. Ruochen Lu's research group.

The work was a collaborative effort with co-authors Xingwei Gao, Ziqian(Hanson) Yao, Byeongjin Kim, Jack Kramer, and Prof. David Burghoff, supported by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s HORCREX program.