Professor David Pan of UT ECE had received a 2010 IBM Faculty Award. The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations, and promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.The IBM Faculty Awards is a worldwide competitive program. Nominations for these awards must be initiated by someone within IBM.

Prof. Pan received the IBM Faculty Award on three previous occasions from 2004-2006. Prof. Pan was the only faculty member from The University of Texas at Austin to receive an IBM Faculty Award in 2010.