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

Prof David Z. Pan and Prof. Sensen Li received the 2026 MediaTek Advanced Research Center (MARC) Academia-Industry Collaboration Excellent Research Award at its MARC Annual Workshop.

Texas ECE assistant professor Emanuele Galiffi has received the Nanophotonics Early Career Award. The award acknowledges four early career scientists for their accomplishments, giving them recognition for their outstanding work in the field of nanophotonics.

Texas ECE associate professor Hao Zhu has received an Amazon Research Award from the UT Austin-Amazon Science Hub for her work on “Building Capacity for Powering the AWS Datacenters and AI Workloads.”

Texas ECE Ph.D. student Yiming Han has been awarded an Outstanding Graduate Research Fellowship from The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School.

Prof. Lizy John of Texas ECE has been selected as a recipient of a Fulbright Specialist Program Award.

Twelve students associated with Texas ECE have been selected to receive prestigious fellowships from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) for 2026.

Researchers have developed an electronic tattoo to track moisture levels in plant leaves, potentially leading to improvements in wildfire prediction, agricultural yields, water conservation and food security.

Emanuele Galiffi has been named the recipient of the 2026 Santimay Basu Prize from Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI).

Professor Radu Marculescu has been recognized as an 2025 AAAS Fellow for his contributions to science and engineering.