Texas ECE PhD student Xiaoyu Niu was awarded the Best Student Paper at the 183rd Meeting of Acoustical Society of America (ASA) for work on “MEMS Microphones as Ultrasonic Transducers."  ASA is an international scientific society founded in 1929 dedicated to generating, disseminating, and promoting the knowledge of acoustics and its practical application.

Texas ECE PhD student Corey White was awarded the Best Student Presentation Award at the 2022 Electronic Materials Conference (EMC) for work on "Growth of InAsSbBi on InSb Towards Lattice-Matched Longwave-Infrared Optoelectronics." 

EMC is the premier annual forum on the preparation, characterization and use of electronic materials. This year’s

Texas ECE alumnus Nikhil Garg has been named to the Forbes 30 under 30: Science.

Texas ECE PhD student Dejia Xu has been selected to receive a Snap PhD Fellowship. The Snap Research Fellowship program is designed to foster a strong collaboration between Snap Research and the brightest, most driven graduate computer science students across the world.

Ray Chen, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

Al Bovik, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

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Al Bovik and the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) are the recipient of a BaM (“Bammy”) Award® from the International Trade Association for Broadcast & Media Technology, in December 2022, for "perceptual picture quality algorithms and databases for streaming and social media." 

Caramanis was honored "for contributions to robust statistics and optimization in high dimensions."

PhD candidate Yuqiang (Ethan) Heng and Prof. Jeff Andrews have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Communications Conference 2022 (Globecom) for their paper "Grid-less mmWave Beam Alignment through Deep Learning." 

Jessica Nelson is a sophomore in the Cockrell School's Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, we spoke with Jessica to learn more about her time in Texas ECE and what her heritage means to her.