Vakhtang Chulukhadze of Texas ECE received the Outstanding Poster Award at the Hilton Head Workshop on Solid-state sensors, Actuators and Microsystems.

The Hilton Head Workshop draws 350-500 academic, industry, and government participants from diverse engineering and scientific backgrounds, including chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, biology, bioengineering, etc.

Vakhtang (Vato) Chulukhadze is entering his third year as a M.S and Ph.D. student at Texas ECE. In May 2022, he received his B.S. degree from the University of Rochester in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Audio and Musical Engineering. Here, he pursued undergraduate research on medical ultrasound beamforming while also working on audio electronics and sound design. He then interned at McDSP as a digital signal processing engineer, working on real-time audio plug-ins.  As a graduate student at UT Austin, his research interests include acoustic microsystems for various applications like sensing and power conversion, as well as acoustic resonators for millimeter wave applications. He is currently interning at TI's Kilby Labs as a systems engineer. He is the 2023 Dorothy and Jim Doyle Scholar, as well as an Elizabeth L. and Russell F. Hallberg Fellow.