UT ECE graduate student Zhuoran Zhao has won a Best in Session Award at the 2013 SRC TECHCON Conference held in Austin, Texas on September 9-10, 2013. Zhao won for his submission "Automated, Retargetable Back-Annotation for Host Compiled Performance and Power Modeling." TECHCON 2013 highlights the best of SRC-sponsored research, while showcasing the students performing the research. 

Zhuoran is a graduate student in UT ECE studying under Dr. Andreas Gerstlauer in the Integrated Circuits and Systems area.