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In Memoriam: Derek Chiou
Derek Chiou, Professor at The University of Texas at Austin’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, died while traveling to be with family on December 26, 2024. The Texas ECE community mourns this tragic loss.
Alumni Profile: Max Dauber
Max Dauber received his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin in 2021. He works as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer & Tech Lead at Primer AI. We sat down with Max to find out more about his time in Texas ECE, and what he is doing now.
Texas Engineers Seek to Shed Light on Life's Building Blocks with Advanced Imaging
Shwetadwip Chowdhury, assistant professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, received a National Institutes of Health grant for $1.8 million over five years to study how complex organisms develop.
Bovik Wins Fritz Medal for Streaming Innovations
Streaming video pioneer Al Bovik has been awarded the John Fritz Medal, one of the most storied and esteemed honors in engineering.
Bovik, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recognized for “foundational contributions to the theoretical and engineering aspects of
The Year Without Yerraballi
Prof. Ramesh Yerraballi has been one of the most popular professors among students in Texas ECE for the better part of 17 years. For the first time in 17 years, there was no Yerraballi for the 23-24 academic year. Where did he go?
AI in the GI
The odds of getting colorectal cancer in America are 1 in 25 for women and 1 in 23 for men. Polyps, which are precursors to cancer, can be found and removed with colonoscopies — 15 million of which are performed in the U.S. annually. Colonoscopies are also critical to the diagnosis of Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and other colon and rectal
Staff Profile: Maria Saldivar
We sat down with Texas ECE senior events coordinator Maria Saldivar to talk about her experiences working in the department and what her Hispanic heritage means to her.
Texas Engineers Part of Huge NSF Semiconductor Program
Texas Engineers will develop next-generation semiconductor technologies as part of a collaboration of the National Science Foundation and leading industry companies.
NSF and partners Ericsson, Intel Corporation, Micron Technology and Samsung awarded $42.4 million for its Future of Semiconductors (NSF FuSe2) competition. Four of the 23 projects
