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Lillian Chin and Kaushik Chowdhury Join Texas ECE Faculty
Texas ECE is proud to announce the arrival of professor Kaushik Chowdhury and assistant professor Lillian Chin to the faculty of the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Two Texas ECE Faculty Receive FuSe2 Awards
Texas ECE professors Jean Anne Incorvia and Lizy John have each received a Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2) grant. The FuSe2 program Supports collaborative research and education in partnership with industry on domain-specific computing, heterogenous integration, and new materials for energy-efficient, enhanced-performance and sustainable semiconductor-based systems.
UT Launches Nation’s First Robotics Program for Freshman Applicants
The University of Texas at Austin has introduced what is believed to be the first undergraduate robotics program in the country that allows high school students to apply directly as part of their freshman admissions application. The honors program will integrate students as soon as they arrive on campus into the immersive and interdisciplinary
Junyuan Hong Named Best Paper Award Finalist at VLDB2024
Texas ECE postdoctoral fellow Junyuan Hong has been named a Best Paper Award Finalist from the 50th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2024) which took place in Guangzhou, China from August 26-30, 2024. The award was for the paper "LLM-PBE: Assessing Data Privacy in Large Language Models." It was co-authored with Junyuan's
Ruochen Lu and Neal Hall Receive DARPA Award
Texas ECE professors Ruochen Lu and Neal Hall received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) award for the research project “Integrated Sensors at High Temperature Using Transferred Piezoelectric Transducers and Epitaxial Transistors” that is developing high performance physical sensors with long lifespans, capable of performing in thermally harsh environments.
Shupeng Ning Receives Synopsys Optical Design Competition Award
Texas ECE Ph.D. student Shupeng Ning received a 2024 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition award from Synopsys for his work on “A Hardware-Efficient Silicon Electronic-Photonic Chip for Optical Structured Neural Networks”.
Sunshine Leeuwon Receives Microwave Theory and Technology Society Undergraduate Scholarship
Sunshine Leeuwon, an undergraduate in Texas ECE, has been selected to receive a prestigious MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society.
Amy Zhang Receives Army Research Office Award
Assistant professor Amy Zhang of Texas ECE received an Army Research Office award for her research project “Combinatorial Generalization through Search-based Planning and Reinforcement Learning” to advance the ability of cyber physical systems to navigate unknown environments, manipulate objects and team with other agents in the open world.
