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Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia Receives NSF CAREER Award
The award is the most prestigious offered by NSF’s CAREER Program, providing up to five years of funding to junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of their organizations’ missions.
Researchers Develop Method for Creating a Two-Dimensional Material Laser
Will Burg, a PhD student in Texas ECE supervised by Dr. Emanuel Tutuc, has been able to demonstrate that by stacking two different semiconducting layers, with a precisely controlled zero-degree twist angle between the layers, a two-dimensional laser can be realized.
Diana Marculescu Named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Diana Marculescu has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an honor awarded to less than 1% of ACM’s membership, for her contributions to the design and optimization of energy-aware computing systems.
Three Texas ECE Faculty Named Highly Cited Researchers
Jeff Andrews, Alan Bovik, and Robert Heath, professors at Texas ECE, have been recognized as Highly Cited Researchers for 2019.
Prof. Jeffrey Andrews Receives IEEE Communication Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award
Prof. Jeffrey Andrews of Texas ECE has been named the recipient of the 2019 Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award from the IEEE Communication Society.
The award is given annually to a “person with a high degree of visibility and contribution in the field of “Wireless and Mobile Communications Theory, Systems, and Networks.” Prof. Andrews will receive the award next month at the upcoming IEEE Global Communications Conference in Hawaii.
UT Austin Launches Institute to Harness the Data Revolution
$1.5M award from National Science Foundation to support cross-disciplinary machine learning and data science research
Texas ECE Student Chang Liu Wins Best Student Paper Award at IEEE EPEPS 2019
Texas ECE graduate student Chang Liu has won the Best Student Paper award at the 28th IEEE Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS) held at Montreal Canada, Oct. 6-9. Chang’s paper was titled “A reduced-domain layered-medium integral-equation method for electronic packages”. The paper, which was co-authored by Prof.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to John Goodenough of The University of Texas at Austin
John B. Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry — jointly with Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University — “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”
Christine Julien Appointed New Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Cockrell School
Cockrell School of Engineering Dean Sharon L. Wood has named Christine Julien, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Anna and Jack Bowen Professor of Engineering, as the Cockrell School’s assistant dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion — a new position established this year.
