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Alex Hanson

Alex Hanson Receives Air Force Young Investigator Research Program Award

Alex Hanson of Texas ECE has been named a recipient of a Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for his work on "Compact Pulsed Power Systems Using GaN Devices and High-Efficiency Magnetic Structures."
Moire

That's a Moiré: Researchers Reveal New Properties of Twisted, Layered, Graphene Material

An international team led by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered new and exotic properties of graphene when it is manipulated in such a way to become a moiré material.
IEEE TCAD

David Z. Pan and Team Win IEEE TCAD Best Paper Award

"DREAMPlace: Deep Learning Toolkit-Enabled GPU Acceleration for Modern VLSI Placement" by Dr. David Z. Pan, students, alumni, and collaborators, was selected as winner of the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award.
Infrared Detector

New Ultra-thin Infrared Detector Shows Vast Improvement Over Existing Tech

A group of Texas Engineers created an infrared detector that represents a major step forward compared to what's on the market today. These devices are important for sensing trace amounts of gasses to determine air quality, and they have the potential to improve free-space communication, which involves transmitting data using light through open air instead of fiber-optic cable. 
NAI Fellows 2021

Banerjee, Dodabalapur, and Swartzlander Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Sanjay Banerjee, Ananth Dodabalapur, and Earl Swartzlander, professors in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have been selected as fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a prestigious distinction that has been awarded to a select group of 164 academic innovators around the world for 2021.
Alan Bovik

Alan Bovik Awarded 2022 IEEE Edison Medal

Prof. Alan Bovik of Texas ECE has been named the recipient of the 2022 Edison Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for "pioneering high-impact scientific and engineering contributions leading to the perceptually optimized global streaming and sharing of visual media.” 
IEEE Fellows

Bank, Dimakis, and Vishwanath Elevated to IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. Texas ECE now has 33 faculty who have been elevated to IEEE Fellow.
Jeff Andrews

Jeff Andrews Wins 2021 Joseph LoCicero Award

The IEEE Communications Society has awarded Texas ECE professor Jeffrey Andrews the 2021 Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications.

The annual award recognizes exceptional contributions to meetings, conferences, publications, globalization, and service to the Society. Nominees have made notable contributions to the quality, scope

Lab-On-A-Chip

Portable ‘Lab-on-a-chip’ Diagnostic Platform Can Rapidly Test Dozens of People for COVID-19

A first-of-its-kind portable disease diagnosis platform could help medical personnel quickly spot asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 and test for a variety of other ailments that are challenging to catch in their early stages.
Francis Bostick

Dr. Francis X. Bostick, Jr.: In Memoriam

Former Texas ECE professor and chair Francis Bostick passed away Wednesday, October 20.

Dr. Francis Bostick was the Hayden Head Centennial Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus. He received his B.S.E E. degree from UT Austin in May, 1955. That summer he entered the Graduate School of Electrical Engineering and started