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Academy of Distinguished Alumni

Five Inducted into Texas ECE Academy of Distinguished Alumni

The Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to welcome the five newest members of the Academy of Distinguished Alumni. The inductees will be honored at an Academy dinner on November 8, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
Zhili Xiong

Zhili Xiong Wins Best Paper Award at FCCM

Zhili Xiong, a Ph.D. student in Texas ECE, recently received the Best Paper Award at the 32nd IEEE International Symposium On Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) for her work on "A Data-Driven, Congestion-Aware and Open-Source Timing-Driven FPGA Placer Accelerated by GPUs."
Texas Engineers Help Lead New Video AI Startup

Texas Engineers Help Lead New Video AI Startup

Cockrell School of Engineering faculty and alumni are playing critical roles in a startup that aims to use artificial intelligence to produce narrative short-form videos using libraries of existing, real-world footage.
ASIC

Texas ECE Leads Semiconductor Workforce Development in Integrated Circuit Design

Last Fall, Texas ECE launched a course on ASIC Design targeted towards next generation semiconductor workforce development in integrated circuit designs.
Jiaqi Gu

Jiaqi Gu Receives Graduate School Outstanding Dissertation Award

Jiaqi Gu has been named a recipient of an Outstanding Dissertation Award from The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School for his dissertation "Light-AI Interaction: Bridging Photonics and Artificial Intelligence via Cross-Layer Hardware/Software Co-Design."
Nandini Clifford

Alumni Profile - Nandini Clifford

Nandini Clifford graduated from Texas ECE in 2009 with an MS in Electrical Engineering. We sat down with Nandini to learn more about what she is doing now and how Texas ECE helped lead to her success.
CADT

Souradip Poddar and Prof. David Pan Win CADT 2024 Poster Competition

Texas ECE PhD student Souradip Poddar and Prof. David Pan were awarded first place at the Computer-Aided Design and Test (CADT 2024) poster competition sponsored by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).
David Burghoff

Measuring Light and Matter with More Precision

David Burghoff plans to optimize measurements in astronomy, remote sensing and quantum information processing through a new Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI).
Nina Telang

Nina Telang Awarded Blunk Memorial Professorship

Prof. Nina Telang of the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded the 2024-2025 William David Blunk Memorial Professorship by The University of Texas at Austin.
Will Doyle and Ian Anderson

Two Texas ECE Students Awarded NASA Graduate Fellowships

Ian Anderson and Will Doyle of the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been selected as recipients of 2024 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO).