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Undergraduate Advising Office Named 2024 NACADA Outstanding Advising Program

The undergraduate advising office of the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been named the 2024 Outstanding Advising Program by NACADA.
Kaushik Chowdhury and Lillian Chin

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.
FuSe2 - Incorvia and John

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.
Texas Robotics

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

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

Neal Hall and Ruochen Lu

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

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

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

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.
Nitika Mago

Alumni Profile: Nitika Mago

Nitika Mago is a Senior Manager for Balancing Operations Planning at Electric Reliability Council Of Texas (ERCOT). She received her M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Texas ECE in 2007. We sat down with Nitika to talk about what she is doing now, and her time in Texas ECE.